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Internet Explorer 8 with No Canvas Primer Tutorial

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Was gobsmacked the other day trying worldold.htm on Internet Explorer 8, because I’d forgotten that the “canvas” element is not supported in IE8 or below. This web application uses the HTML5 “canvas” element not natively available in IE8 or below. … Continue reading →

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HTML5 Canvas Map Clickaround Follow Up Tutorial

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HTML5 brought in the incredibly useful “canvas” element, for the first time. Its existence opens up a whole new world of possibilities for web applications that are graphical by nature, as we saw yesterday with HTML5 Canvas Map Clickaround Primer … Continue reading →

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HTML5 Canvas Map Clickaround Primer Tutorial

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HTML5 brought in the incredibly useful “canvas” element, for the first time. Its existence opens up a whole new world of possibilities for web applications that are graphical by nature. With the canvas element’s drawImage() method you can draw more … Continue reading →

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Geolocation ISP IP Follow Up Tutorial

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We discovered yesterday this great resource for data feeds (thanks to great link for the great lead) at JSON IP and GeoIP REST API (IP Geolocation) by Telize. In the course of discovering its usefulness we saw that it returned … Continue reading →

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Geolocation ISP IP Primer Tutorial

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It’s good every now and then to see what is new in the world of data feeds on the internet, so that is how, via this great link, we got onto the wonderful Acronym lookup resource at NaCTeM (The National … Continue reading →

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Yahoo YQL Nextbus JSON Primer Tutorial

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If we add some of the ideas of HTML/Javascript Geolocation Primer Tutorial to yesterday’s Yahoo YQL Geodata JSON Primer Tutorial we may well arrive at the logic and a large part of the content ideas for today’s tutorial, where we … Continue reading →

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Yahoo YQL Geodata JSON Primer Tutorial

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Here is a tutorial that introduces (or reintroduces) you to the Yahoo Web Services called YQL. The name is the way it is because it simplified the API aspects of its functionality for the developer to concentrate on SQL, and … Continue reading →

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WordPress Blog PHP mod_deflate Speed Improvement Tutorial

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Our “quest” for speed continues, man person. This WordPress Blog (from WordPress.org (not WordPress.com)) is now using the PHP mod_deflate module to zip up the traffic going out on the web, in exchange for a higher CPU load for our … Continue reading →

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