here is a working example of a google form and chart embedded statically into a web page.
you may also be interested in a truly static version and/or the underlying data in this spreadsheet on google docs.
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the problem: for a small web project that is going to run on a server with very restricted functionality (due to safety concerns), we wanted to include a web form where visitors can submit values. these values should then be presented in a graph, showing all submitted values and highlighting the latest addition.
the solution: after some digging, i found a way to do all of that using google forms/spreadsheets, which offers user input, a simple spreadsheet-based database, as well as dynamic image creation.
check out the working example page and the underlying spreadsheet, and continue reading for a step-by-step tutorial on how to create a web form that plugs into an automatically refreshing graph/chart using very basic means, and how to implement it all using just two static web pages, a google form, and a google spreadsheet. [more...]
update: google has published a new, official way to publish photospheres on your website, which still works (in contrast to the below, outdated method).
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if you’ve been following the feature additions to android over the past few months, you’ve probably heard of photospheres: they’re google streetview-like interactive 360 degree panoramas that you can easily record with your smartphone running android jellybean 4.2+.
now, google has finally provided us with a way to embed photo spheres from google+ on other websites, including your self-hosted wordpress blog!
stunning views from seegrube, innsbruck
here’s a little function for your wordpress theme’s functions.php, which will enable the shortcodes [photosphere URL] and [ps URL]: [more...]
WinWedge is a simple tool to obtain periodic readouts through a serial RS-232 or COM interface (e.g. from an analytical balance). unfortunately, though, obtaining a timestamp for every data point is not as intuitive as it could be.
here’s how you can automatically add a timestamp to your periodic output with WinWedge (tested with WinWedge32 Std. V3.0).
let’s assume that you’ve already configured the basic communication (“Port” – “Settings”) and timer settings (“Define” – “Serial Output Strings” > “Interval (ms)” and “Timer Controlled Output String”). [more...]
i’ve had some problems getting https_enforcer to work in a typo3 instance with realurl. for some reason i, every attempt at opening a page with the “enforce https” option activated, resulted in a redirect loop error.
as it turns out, one of the issues was an old htaccess redirect rule (not shown here) that was supposed to force visitors from multiple domain names to the main domain name.
here’s the combination of all related the settings that works for me: [more...]
there are some wordpress themes which, for some reason, remove the individual widget wrap css-classes, and just add one generic class to all the widgets, e.g.
<div class="widgetwrap"> ... </div>
this is a real pain if you want to change the appearance of just one specific widget in your sidebar.
at the same time, widget logic is (1) a very powerful widget plugin, and (2) known to have incompatibilities with some other widget plugins (or is it the other way round?).
to solve this problem while keeping widget logic, i wrote a little script and thought i’d share.
there are many wordpress plugins that count the written words out there, and my plugin of choice is WP Word Count because of its simple, straight-forward overview page, which includes total counts as well as numbers by month and author.
however, it’s not always desirable to include everything in those counts – e.g. if you hire writers and get billed by the word, you may want to exclude blockquotes.
the following little code modification achieves just that: [more...]
