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Posted by Kevin Powe on 13 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Java, Nerd Thoughts
Two months since a post? Good lord.
Work has been mad, combined with pressure building on writing my convention game for July.
But I do indeed have a post brewing – I’d gone and written up a blog post on the weekend regarding the Google Chart API, and then I go and run into jMaki, which changes a few things significantly. I’m starting to play with it at the moment, and it already provides a wrapper over the Google Charting API. (road testing it will see how much easier it makes things…)
Other than that, my Western genre immersion continues.
So, meaningful updates shortly. In the meantime, I have indeed implemented a script to show my current headspace – you can see it in action here. It uses an ImageCache PHP script that I did indeed end up writing as promised in a previous post, along with a wrapper over the Google Charting API. It’s driven off a database table, and the next step (which I’ll plug jMaki in for, as opposed to developing another custom wrapper over bar charts) is to get it to graph the rise and fall of particular items over time.
Delicious, delicious data! We loves it so!
Oh, and while Ajax does some tremendous things in providing a rich, lightweight interface via a web client, I’d argue that good old SQL is still one of the most powerful, important tools to business, and for finding Truth.