January 2008
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Rails and Chronic, easy ’smart’ date fields
There are quite a few Ruby on Rails plugins to give you nice Calendar drop downs for date selection...but, I'm much more partial to the style of fuzzy date entry you see in a lot of apps now, allowing you to enter common strings and have the app figure out the date -- ie, "next [...]
Using the Google Maps API geocoder in Servoy
I've posted a Servoy module that demonstrates how to make HTTP REST calls to the Google Maps API geocoder to get back a variety of useful information (such as Long/Lat) of a query address. Download here.