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What, who, where am I?!?
Craig Lotter is a web developer based in Gordon's Bay, South Africa, who seems completely incapable of shaking off that pesky inner child within, the one that forces him to love all things animated or hand drawn.
The Rugged Rock of Craig contains snippets of his life, popular culture and all the important things like anime, manga, games and comic books. The CodeUnit of Craig on the other hand contains the more serious stuff like code snippets and tutorials, while the House of C chronicles his foray into the world of web comics.
For which it never seems he has enough time anyway.
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Tag Archives: google chart
How to Generate a URL containing QR code using Google Charts API
QR codes are slowly, slowly gaining more traction, despite the fact that they are pretty much only useful little beasts when it comes to directing smartphone users to some or other web content URL. Generating them is pretty easy, hell, Google Chart has an API for them (which is exactly what we are going to leverage in a minute), and to decode them you simply need a phone with a camera and a decoder app installed. So let’s do this.
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Online QR Code Decoder
QR codes are slowly, slowly gaining more traction, despite the fact that they are pretty much only useful little beasts when it comes to directing smartphone users to some or other web content URL. Generating them is pretty easy, hell, even Google Chart has an api for them, and to decode them you simply need a phone with a camera and a decoder app installed. But what if you don’t have a phone for testing and simply want to check that your generated QR code is correct?
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Posted in Tutorials
Tagged google chart, google qr code, qr, qr code, qr code decoder, zebra crossing, zxing
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Online QR Code Encoder (Generator)
QR codes are slowly, slowly gaining more traction, despite the fact that they are pretty much only useful little beasts when it comes to directing smartphone users to some or other web content URL. Generating them is pretty easy, hell, even Google Chart has an api for them, and to decode them you simply need a phone with a camera and a decoder app installed. But if you aren’t particularly computer illiterate, what is the best way to generate a QR code of your own? Continue reading
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Tagged google chart, google qr code, qr, qr code, qr code encoder, qr code generator, zebra crossing, zxing
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PHP and Google Charts: Using a POST request when a GET String is too Long
Google Charts is an extremely stable and reliable web-based charting engine that is perfect for dropping into any project where you quickly want to produce some high quality graphs for your end user. Continue reading
Posted in Technology & Code, Tutorials
Tagged api, chart, google, google chart, PHP, post
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