Beginning Google Maps Applications

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 […]

Back in January, I demonstrated how to extend GMarker for text-based labels. In the interests of keeping things simple, I ignored any event handling, and just covered the nuts and bolts of how to make a wrapper class in JavaScript, and how to add the basic functionality we wanted.
Well, we had a number of requests […]

The Ruby on Rails code is ready to downloaded. Here’s how to get it up and running in your environment:

Download the zip file, gmaps_rails_code.zip
Create your own empty Rails application (rails your_app_name)
Unzip gmaps_rails_code.zip in the root of your newly created application. When you unzip the file, you will see it contains five root directories: app, db, […]

To those of you who have emailed us about the source code for the Rails edition — thanks for your patience, it’s coming soon! I decided to present it as a one compressed file you can unpack over an existing Rails application skeleton. Stay tuned, the code is coming later today or tomorrow at the […]