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How to do custom chart annotations in Flex

{ Posted on Mar 03 2009 by david }
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Categories : Code Sample, Flex, How-To, Programming
Hunting around the ‘Net, I found a few good examples of creating chart annotations in Flex. One example app which helped me greatly was from a blog posting by Ely Greenfield. If you’re interested, you can view it on his website: ...Read More »

How to build and install the Metakit DB for Python on MacOSX

{ Posted on Feb 10 2009 by david }
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Categories : Code Sample, Geek, How-To, Technology
Ever since I used it years ago on a geek-project for my Zaurus, the Metakit DB has always been a favorite of mine. I had the chance to use it again on another personal project and this time on MacOSX. ...Read More »

Hacking the front page to display my blog entries

{ Posted on Mar 12 2006 by david }
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The problem I wanted the home page of my web site to show my blog entries and also be a little more dynamic by displaying other related content. The default index_html page for my blog software, Quills, does display the current entries, ...Read More »

Setup MarsEdit with Quills 0.9 Final

{ Posted on Feb 25 2006 by david }
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I have been wanting to find a better way to write blogs rather than using the Plone interface. I was happy to find that MarsEdit and Quills both implement several blog APIs. Though it would appear that the implementation for ...Read More »

Added AdSense by Google

{ Posted on Feb 14 2006 by david }
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One thing that I like about Google is that they make things easy. One thing that I like about Plone and Zope is that they make things easy. In about an hour or two, I managed to put AdSense ads on my ...Read More »