Who knows how much time I’ve wasted over the years trying to find a reliable data source for country names, ISO codes, phone prefixes and currencies. I have my own personal dysfunctional set of tables built manually from bits and pieces found online. But the other day I ran into this beauty: and updated ISO 3166… Continue reading A reliable list of country codes
Category: Software Dev.
How to create an embeddable timeline chart
The other day, web developer friend asked me how to create and insert a timeline into WordPress. He actually wanted to put an interactive timeline with links, images and video on the homepage of a news site. I checked out several options out there and settled on TimelineJS. You can create timeline charts directly on… Continue reading How to create an embeddable timeline chart
How to demo an app in six steps | John Nelson
Over in his blog, John Nelson gives us a full step by step recommendations on how to successfully demo an app in front of an audience. In my case, my two biggest mistakes are usually going too fast or not providing enough context before beginning. I know it because of the questions that rise later… Continue reading How to demo an app in six steps | John Nelson
Making sense of numbers while browsing the web
Almost every time we read an article, we are faced with numbers. Good writers try to pre-digest those figures for you with analogies. But most of the times, we are left alone to decipher what the numbers mean. The thing is that we rarely interrupt our reading to stop and think how $238 million dollars… Continue reading Making sense of numbers while browsing the web
Zoomdata: BI without ETL
This weekend I took a few minutes to test Zoomdata. And when I say minutes, I literally mean minutes. These guys have done an amazing job to provide a quick mobile-ready demo that you can download as a VM, or as I did, install from an RPM package in a fresh Linux system. After the… Continue reading Zoomdata: BI without ETL