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Archive for January, 2008
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 [...]
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008. Posted in Ruby on Rails | 3 Comments »>
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.
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008. Posted in Servoy | No Comments »>
