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Get Geo Coordinates from Google Maps in PHP
Posted on February 5th, 2010 No commentsGoogle maps offers a rich api for getting a lot of information as you are probably already aware. I’ve written a few locators in the last couple of years involving the use of google maps and doing radial searches based on zip codes. The difficult part for me was getting the geo coordinates of the queried zip code to use as a reference point for doing the radial search. I ended up writing a nice simple class to encapsulate converting zip codes into geo-coordinates.
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Why HipHop is Hype and Facebook Looks Foolish
Posted on February 4th, 2010 1 commentThe twitterverse has been in a flurry of hype over Facebook’s latest abortion: HipHop. For those who don’t know, HipHop is Facebook’s answer to scalability problems on their platform. Since everyone and their dog (literally) is on facebook, their platform responds to millions of requests each day, meaning they need serious hardware and software that can handle this brutal, unrelenting onslaught every second of every day. Facebook is written in Php which is suitable language for most applications on the web however when you push it as hard as facebook has, it starts to split at the seems like any runtime that was not designed with enterprise in mind. You can extend its life with the use of load balancers, smart caching, and good development practices but sooner or later it will fail you.
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Double or Triple Your Ipod’s Capacity With High Efficiency AAC
Posted on February 3rd, 2010 No commentsI got my first ipod two months ago and in fact it was my first mp3 player ever. Shocking for hard core geek right? Well I bought my wife her own ipod a number of years ago but was never able to really afford a second one so I became victim of ‘what cd do i want to bring with me today?’. Over time many of my cds became scratched and dirty from piling up in the center console of my car and I longed for my own portable music device that I could carry around my entire music collection without worry. When the device of my destiny arrived in the mail from my parents for my birthday you can imagine my excitement to immediately cram as much crap on it as I could. I was having a blast until…. I ran out of space. I had only gotten maybe a third of what I really wanted on there but it was all that 8 gigabytes could stand. To put this into perspective I have a 500Gb usb hard drive which houses my archived collection so you can imagine cherry picking that down to 8Gb is an excercise in futility.
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jQuery.imageLoader 1.0 Released
Posted on February 3rd, 2010 9 commentsA while ago I wrote an article on how to dynamically load images using jquery. This has turned out to be one of my most popular posts and I got a lot of feedback on it. As a follow-up I decided to package it up as a real-life jquery plugin and release it into the [...]
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