On our Virtual Swanage (www.virtual-swanage.co.uk) website we wanted to add a daily weather feed to the home page to show the current weather and a 3 day forecast for the site visitors. I looked at several online weather feeds and most required...
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After working on updates for our Virtual Swanage iOS app that uses a JavaScript based webview for information, I ran into a problem where by a JavaScript window.location event would only open up a page within an existing view and it...
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Google have a very useful way of generating QR codes which can be scanned using a mobile phone.
If you use http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=150x150&choe=UTF-8&chld=H&chl=http://www.apexweb.co.uk as your image...
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The code below allows you to print pdf documents which are on a web server to an attached or network printer. Under IIS 7 I found that you need to setup a user account with permisisons for Acrobat Reader and printing which is then assigned to...
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Continued from Part One.
The design mockup on the EasyPIC6 development board was transferred to a breadboard for final testing and then the circuit was build on an offcut of stripboard.
Source code for the project can be downloaded in a zip...
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To enable taskbar previews for the latest firefox update under Windows 7Go to: about:config in the address bar and scroll or search to find:
browser.taskbar.previews.enable
Double click to enable taskbar previews
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I have updated the site gallery with a flickr feed of my latest updates to Flickr
http://www.briandorey.com/gallery/gallery.aspx
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On the recently redesigned Virtual Swanage website we thought it would be useful to have a Twitter feed with daily events being submitted once a day from the websites event diary.
We considered manually updating the site every day and adding...
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Below is the code to make an .aspx page written in C# which scans all folders on a website and generates a xml site map which google can read for all .htm or .html pages. If you want to add other file types, edit the in dirInfo.GetFiles("*.htm"))...
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