Beginning Google Maps Applications

As of this month (February 2010), GoogleMapsBook.com will be converted into a static HTML archive and be completely decoupled from PHP and Wordpress.
Four years on and the book is still selling really, really well (THANK YOU ALL!), but it’s become obvious that this site and the book are only useful as v2 references. With the […]

One of the most frequent questions we get via email is “Your book is two years old. Is it any good now?” While only you can answer that question, we certainly think so. When we set out to write the book we put a lot of effort into the fundamentals of mapping. We covered the […]

Rails 2 changed the way to_json works on ActiveRecord objects. Prior to Rails 2, to_json returned a hash of hashes — the first level hash had the key ‘attributes’, which in turn had another hash with your field name/values.
With Rails 2, calling to_json on an AR object just gives you a hash of field name/values. […]

Hello All,
We’ve talked and talked about adding forums to this site and decided against it. We already do all of the support we can by email and encourage anyone who has trouble with anything in the books to contact us that way. If the problem is common enough we’ll blog about it instead. We also […]

Our three week entry period is over and we have selected the winners of a free copy of Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax: From Novice to Professional.
From the over 450+ entries received we have randomly selected four lucky winners. They are:

Ryan Irelan of Raleigh, NC, USA
Daniel Leong of London, UK
Mike Hodgson (location […]