I’ve been doing some Chrome extension development in the past week and as you may or may not know, chrome extensions are allowed to make cross-domain ajax calls. This is allowed because of the Chrome extension permission model which requires a user installing an extension to agree to that the installed application may access your [...]
Here’s a quick little tutorial to show you how you can create a dynamic robots.txt file with the Zend Framework. My robot files aren’t usually complex since I’m really careful about not putting anything that could be indexed in the web root, but there are some cases where you may want to have more control [...]
I’ve been using @font-face more and more over the past couple of months as a way to use custom fonts on websites I manage, but the issue I keep running into is that the contents of the page (including background sprites) will flicker a second after the content has loaded. It’s really ugly. The best [...]
The Google Visualization API has a lot of really useful charts and graphs that, when combined with a web-based database like QuickBase, can really be powerful. Here’s a complete example of how to use the PHP SDK for QuickBase to get data from a QuickBase and use it side-by-side with the Google Visualization API to [...]
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