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Google Maps API
In a recent project it was asked to provide a Google map on a number of pages. It would have been to time consuming to create a custom map and manually place the code on each page. Instead using the Google Maps API was a better choice because the address could be pulled from a custom field in the post and used to create the map. The first step is signing up for a API key, as with most Google products is free and only requires a Google account. Continue reading
Google Chrome’s First Bug
The first vulnerability of Google’s new browser has been announced and fixed. The bug is a buffer overflow when the user tries to save a web page containing a very long title tag. Continue reading
Google Chrome Screen Shots
Screen shots and review of Google Chrome after being released. Continue reading
Google Chrome
Google Chrome is an all new web browser from Google. Continue reading
Sun Acquires MySQL
Sun Microsystems will be buying the open source database software MySQL for 1 billion dollars. While being an open source company and giving it’s software away MySQL offers paid support to customers, and one of those customers is Google. So the 1 billion dollar price tag seems pretty fair. Here’s the official news from Sun. Continue reading
