Beginning Google Maps Applications

It’s been a bit quiet around here lately so I wanted to point out some articles that Jeff has written in the last few weeks. They don’t directly relate to Google Maps development but they are excellent articles about web development in general. I hope you find them useful.

Doing it Asynchronously: Demonstration and explanation of […]

It’s been an active few weeks for the Google Maps API team. They’ve announced a number of interesting new additions, and the community has discovered a few more. We can’t possibly hope to cover everything in great detail, but we do hope to work these changes into any future revisions of our book. Until then, […]

Over the past two months—since Beginning Google Maps Applications hit shelves—we’ve had a handful of basic questions about PHP, CSS and SQL. I just want to clear up a few misconceptions that people may have about the content of our book so that everyone can get the most out of reading it.

We’ve had a few questions about the purpose of apikey.php and db_credentials.php in the online source code. In most instances where the online listings don’t match those presented in the book the inclusion of these two files are the only signicant difference. So here’s a quick explanation…

AJAX Magazine and PHP Magazine are offering two copies of our book in a mini contest. If you didn’t win during our giveaway maybe you can run over and try to win there. The contest closes tomorrow (Sunday September 17th, 2006) so don’t delay.
http://ajax.phpmagazine.net/2006/09/beginning_google_maps_applicat.html

Good Luck!