Add a flot chart to a Blogger page

Adding a flot chart to a Blogger page is pretty easy.

1. From blogger, create a new post and click "HTML"
2. Paste in the script statements below to import the required libraries.
3. Add a script tag for your chart.

I've pasted in the example from http://www.flotcharts.org/flot/examples/basic-usage/index.html with one modification: I added a width and height to the "style" of the div.

Here is the relevant code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/flot/0.8.2/jquery.flot.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
  var d1 = [];
  for (var i = 0; i < 14; i += 0.5) {
    d1.push([i, Math.sin(i)]);
  }
  var d2 = [[0, 3], [4, 8], [8, 5], [9, 13]];

  // A null signifies separate line segments
  var d3 = [[0, 12], [7, 12], null, [7, 2.5], [12, 2.5]];

  $.plot("#placeholder", [ d1, d2, d3 ]);
  // Add the Flot version string to the footer
  $("#footer").prepend("Flot " + $.plot.version + " – ");
});
</script>
<div id="placeholder" class="demo-placeholder"  style="width:400px;height:200px"></div>

Amazon S3 - CName mappings

If you have tried using S3 to completely host your web service, you probably ran in to the index.html problem.

I came up with one solution, but my god it's not pretty.

First, your bucket must be called www.mysite.com if your web site is mysite.com.

You need to make two entries in your registrar's name server.

www CNAME www.mysite.com.s3.amazonaws.com
@ URL Redirect http://www.mysite.com/index.html

What will happen is that any URL that doesn't start with www will redirect to your index.html page, and all the pages under www.mysite.com will work correctly.

Ug. Comments?