{"id":2023,"date":"2010-01-20T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bitvolution.com\/?p=645"},"modified":"2010-01-20T09:00:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T08:00:29","slug":"peopleperhour-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/01\/peopleperhour-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"PeoplePerHour Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just finished a new webpage called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peopleperhour.com\/pph_economy.php\">PeoplePerHour Economy<\/a> that was written about in the <a href=\"http:\/\/eu.techcrunch.com\/2010\/02\/17\/index-ventures-invests-in-peopleperhour-as-business-flows-east-to-west\/\">mainstream tech press<\/a> (<em>see bottom half of article<\/em>):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/PPH_Marketplace.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bitvolution.com\/files\/2010\/01\/PPH_Marketplace-243x300.png?resize=243%2C300\" alt=\"Screenshot of Peopleperhour marketplace page\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-646 bordered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Technical details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The charts and graphs are implemented using the <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/apis\/chart\/\">Google Charts API<\/a> &#8211; a simple and extremely efficient method of producing charts.<\/li>\n<li>The charts (and chart data) are cached over a 24 hour period to take some load off the webserver. The caching is done by some simple PHP code &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/memcached.org\/\">memcached<\/a> seemed overkill.<\/li>\n<li>The UK map is implemented using a 3rd-party image map with polygon co-ordinates specifying each county. The hover-over highlighting is done using a JQuery plugin called <a href=\"http:\/\/plugins.jquery.com\/project\/maphilight\">mapHighlight<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;Job-o-meter&#8221; is implemented using a JQuery plugin called <a href=\"http:\/\/plugins.jquery.com\/project\/jOdometer\">jOdometer<\/a> customised to format the number with commas and animate the digits with some <a href=\"http:\/\/plugins.jquery.com\/project\/Easing\">easing<\/a>. I have made the customisations available via <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/tomfotherby\/jOdometer\">a github fork<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just finished a new webpage called PeoplePerHour Economy that was written about in the mainstream tech press (see bottom half of article): Technical details: The charts and graphs are implemented using the Google Charts API &#8211; a simple and extremely efficient method of producing charts. The charts (and chart data) are cached over a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[90,33],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-client-work","tag-design","tag-peopleperhour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}