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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 too 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. With the code below adding a Google Map is simple.
The first step is signing up for a API key, as with most Google products is free and only requires a Google account. After you’ve received your key, you can then edit the functions.php file of your current theme. The below code has some key spots to take note of and maybe change some values. I will highlight these after the full code.
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. Now I’m sure it’s because of all the attention the browser is getting that this vulnerability was even discovered and more so that it was patched so quickly. The side affect of all the attention is more bugs and problems will probably arise but also that these will be patched and a excellent browser will emerge.
Side Note: I just can’t figure out why that decided to use Apple’s WebKit instead of Gecko for the engine. I have a problem with my computer at work with my mouse wheel scrolling not working correctly in Safari for Windows and the same problem occurs with Chrome.
Source: PCWorld
Google Chrome Screen Shots
I promised some screen shots and that’s what I’m giving.
One of the nice features I’ve found so far is the incognito window, this makes a function that is only available through a plugin in Firefox built in. In essence it is doesn’t keep track of what you do in that window. So if you happen to be on some inappropriate sites no one will ever know.
The biggest difference that I can see is that Chrome doesn’t use some of Mozilla’s custom CSS tags such as -moz-border-radius which makes pretty rounded buttons in Firefox. I’ve done a little side by side screen shot to show what I mean. Since all the screens are large I’m going to post them on the full page click below to continue on to the screens.
Google Chrome
Google Chrome? It’s Google’s newest blow to Microsoft. It is an all new web browser for the smart kids at Google. It’s scheduled for release today (Sept 2) and as soon as it’s officially released I’ll be downloading and posting a few screen shots and a quick overview of it. The official download site is reported to be Here.
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.
