Mr Coles Peter Coles’ blog

An explanation of when to use encoded ampersands (&) in HTML and Javascript and when not to encode them. read full post…

This post explains how the asynchronous part of the google analytics asynchronous tracking script really works with an explanation of which browsers really support it, and it explains how the new syntax works too. read full post…

This post has a brief explanation of Google Chart Tools and the chart builder called "Chart Maker". It also includes a chart that resembles Pacman—inspired by an existing popular image. read full post…

This post takes a look at another blog post on iPhone and PC game piracy to also point out how small a part of the market is actually buying games. read full post…

This is a technical followup to a post on SEOmoz.org with a specific example on how to setup an automated link building tool that monitors a google alerts RSS feed using YQL and then checks those pages to see if they linked to the site you are monitoring. This post explains the python code in more detail and gives specifics on how to set it up with the google apps engine. read full post…