http://www.bloggpro.com Office tips, CSS, PHP, MySQL scripting and web publishing Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:34:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Simple Weather widget is a small and simple (duh!) widget for wordpress which enables the display of weather forecast with icons for any location as specified by the post custom field.  The widget adapts to the look and feel of the blog theme. A typical Simple Weather widget can ... http://www.bloggpro.com/simple-weather-widget-plugin-for-wordpress/ When facing chemical equilibrium problems of the type it is often useful to construct logarithmic concentration versus pH diagrams to illustrate how the concentrations of the ions are dependant of the pH-value. The theory behind the diagram is not too complicated and the construction is straightforward. However, generating nice looking diagrams can ... http://www.bloggpro.com/excel-template-to-generate-log-concentration-ph-diagram/ After many requests I decided to make available a simple template for creating nice-looking histograms in Excel. I this downloadable file the user can easily paste his/her own data and instantly get a nicely formatted histogram, with correctly calculated bins (Scott's choice). No need to bother with complicated field formulas and ... http://www.bloggpro.com/useful-histogram-template-for-excel-2007/ Due to quite a few requests I have completed a template for Excel 2007 to quickly allow the user to create a nice looking box plot. The template can be downloaded and used right away, by simply pasting your values into the worksheet and everything else will be done for ... http://www.bloggpro.com/box-plot-downloadable-excel-template/ Xpath is apowerful method available in php to select specific elemts in the DOM structure of any xml document, and also html document. The code below can be used for example to check for back links, in a robust way. The code below allows for back links to any page ... http://www.bloggpro.com/finding-links-to-specific-adress-using-xpath/ [caption id="attachment_288" align="alignnone" width="212" caption="Swine flue cases in Sweden 2009 (click for larger image)"][/caption] http://www.bloggpro.com/map-and-sparklines-combo/ Just a quick note on an interesting test I have done on AdSense content targeting. Simply put, I uploaded a number of copies of a html document with some text about DVD-players (in Swedish), altering only the <title></title> and the file name of the documents. A 250 x 250 AdSense ... http://www.bloggpro.com/is-adsense-relying-on-url-for-determining-content/ Masked passwords pose a significant useability issue which can be avoided. Masked passwords often lead to user frustration and possibly encourage users to chose simple passwords that are easy to enter without making mistakes. Further, the security benefits from masked passwords are likely minimal for most users and applications. However, there ... http://www.bloggpro.com/method-to-securely-introduce-unmasked-passwords/ With the relatively new 3.5+ release  comes a new Geolocation API that enables geographical positioning of the browser client. Positioning is done through an array of means: “Common sources of location information include Global Positioning System (GPS) and location inferred from network signals such as IP address, RFID, WiFi and Bluetooth ... http://www.bloggpro.com/geolocation-api-in-firefox-35/ Sometimes when integrating a Google map on a site it is useful to give feedback to the user when hovering the mouse over a map marker. While not very difficult to achieve, it may not be completely straight forward to beginners, so I just wanted to post my solution here. The ... http://www.bloggpro.com/google-maps-highlight-sidebar-text-on-marker-mouseover/