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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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Word press apparently has its limitations when showing code. At least with my hosting service.

If you’re using libperl++ and you’ve run into headaches or you’ve come up with improvements, let me know.

Ya ya ya, I know the last time I put something up here was over a year ago. None the less I wanted to post a little ditty here about libperl++ .

You see I’ve been messing around with libperl++ as part of an application I’m writing for my company. How ever outdated or antiquated you think it might be, I think it works perfectly for the application I’m writing. More to come…. stupid wordpress….