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Microformats, Making your Content a Little More Useful

Microformating is a tidy new way to markup your XHTML content making it more useful for consumption by machines.  The markup is designed to sit on top of your existing XHTML so there is no visual difference, as defined on ...read more

Consuming Google Analytics XML via Email

Now that Google Analytics has the option to schedule email statistics reports in XML format it has become possible to consume their data in a more efficient manor.  I have now have a fully automated application that can r...read more

PHP-WAX Development Framework

PHP-WAX is a lightweight PHP framework built using the Model, View, Control (MVC) architecture. It allows rapid development through abstraction of common tasks such as database connections, validations and ses...read more

Google Maps Using PHP and Javascript

The following code snippets will demonstrate a method of dynamically placing single or multiple markers onto a Google Map using PHP and Javascript. The examples allows you to specify some of Google's optional API parameters s...read more

Microsoft Live Map Example

I'm quite a fan of Google Maps and its associated API but when comparing map quality in locations outside of the major UK cities Microsoft's Live Maps often come up trumps.  As a quick example here's the javascript source...read more