Nothing major here, just fixing the hard coded API Key bug that was causing maps not to display due to the API Key being over it’s limit. Download it at: Phoogle’s Homepage
Matt Beedle has written a solid little plugin called acts_as_emailable that let’s site users send each other messages through the site. A couple of cool things that stood out to me: 1. It doesn’t need to send emails it can store the messages on the site (in a db table) but can send emails if [...]
On June 1, 2007 my wife and I had our first child, named Luke. He came home from the hospital with us on June 4th. Of all the adjustments people have to make to a new baby one of the biggest is the sleep schedule. We are lucky that he sleeps in roughly 3.5 to [...]
On 04.11.07, In Web Dev, by Justin Johnson
Podcasts are great. I currently keep about 5-8 subscriptions at any given time on my iPod. I’m a big fan of web development podcasts as I love to hear how others are doing day to day tasks like I do. In no particular order here are some of my favorite web development podcasts: Railscasts | [...]
One of the biggest complaints I’ve received in the past few weeks has been lack of international support which I thought I had fixed in 2.01. Also alot of people have asked why I used Yahoo’s geocoding API instead of Google’s. When Phoogle Maps was first released about a year or so ago Google did [...]
Dreamhost is a great webhost, in fact if you use the promo code:PHOOGLE at signup you can get 1 year of their level1 hosting for 44.40 (which is less than 4.00 a month). This is normally priced at 119.40!, so you save $75.00!! Back to the topic at hand. Phoogle by default uses file_get_contents() to [...]
When I migrated from my old blog/website/webhost one thing that got lost in the shuffle was the examples for the Phoogle Mapping class. They can be found on the main phoogle page located at http://systemsevendesigns.com/phoogle Next to the name of each example you will see a link that says source code, which links to a [...]
If you need to calculate distance in a web app, or maybe say something like “User1 lives approximately 2.1 miles from User2″ then you’ve had to do the math to calculate distances between zip codes. It’s a great pain. In the past I’ve always used this really great class from MicahCarrick called PHP Zip Code [...]
If you’re like me, you’ve fallen in love with CakePHP. It’s a tight bit of code that’s easy to use and once you have your application using it, easy to maintain and add new features. For my recent redesign of my freelance site www.systemsevendesigns.com I wanted to be able to display my 3 most recent [...]
If your stuck in the world of developing on a Windows platform, chances are you’ve become quite envious of Textmate on the mac, especially if your a follower of the Ruby on Rails guys. While I don’t offer a Textmate for the PC, I did find a version of the Monaco font (which Textmate uses [...]
