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Create Charts Dynamically |
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Sunday, 24 February 2008 |
Charts are graphical information that represent numerical data and its relationship. Charts can be created using different softwares or spreedsheets, and they are often incorporated in presentations or slides to help audiences understand the data easily.
Google provides a free and great chart API that can be used to dynamically generate charts for websites. A complete guide describing the API and how to use it can be found in the developer's guide page. |
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Sunday, 17 February 2008 |
The free Thunderbird email client was developed by Mozilla. It is a robust, a secure and an easy-to-use email client. Thunderbird is an open source application that makes it easy for developers to freely build extensions to enhance its features. Thunderbird is not only an email client, but also a great client to set up newsgroup and RSS folders to fetch latest news info.
It is so easy to setup Thunderbird on a desktop. Under Windows operating systems, it only requires at least 52 MB data space, 64 MB RAM and Pentium 500 MHz or greater, similar for Linux systems. But for Mac, it requires 200 MB drive space and 128 MB RAM and can be setup on Intel x86 or PowerPC. |
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Manipulate Columns in Text Files |
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Saturday, 09 February 2008 |
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Text files contain characters (ASCII characters) and some control characters. The control characters such as end-of-line, whitespace, and tab are used to organize data in the files. More info about text files can be found in Wikipedia page. This short article shows a quick and simple way to manipulate columns in a text file. |
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Saturday, 09 February 2008 |
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CPAN (Comprehensive PERL Archive Network) collects thousands of useful modules and subroutines written in PERL and their documentations, and authors. It is a comprehensive index of Perl modules. |
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