Archive for February 29th, 2008

German for a “whale’s vagina”

Christine and I are off to San Diego for the weekend.  Hanging out with Andy and Tiff for a few days.

You stay classy!

Symfony and Google Maps

As many of you know in my “free” time I manage, direct, and write code for a small company called txtMovieClub.com. It’s a pretty neat idea where we notify our subscribers of up coming movie screenings via SMS messaging.

One of the aspects to the project involves using google maps. Now since the project is written in php and uses symfony (which is flippin’ awesome!) I checked out phoogle. I’ll say this… it’s a good start and I like where Justin was going with it. It’s sexy, it’s abstract, neat. Unfortunately it just didn’t meet the needs for the page I was working on.

I decided to take a different approach. I wanted the map to be AJAX driven. If I wanted to modify the location I didn’t want to have to reload the map, I just wanted the map to clear its markers and recenter.

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