Beginning Google Maps Applications

Hello Everyone.
We’ve had a request to add forums to this site for all of our readers to help each other and share ideas. Jeff, Mike and I considered this a few months ago and decided that we probably didn’t have enough traffic to warrant it. But with over 100 subscribers to our feed and an […]

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 […]

UPDATE: A savvy reader Carl Olsen pointed out that it wasn’t actually necessary to check for the infoWindow state and the problem could simply be fixed by a check for an overlay. The post has been updated accordingly. Thanks Carl.

It seems that somewhere along the line something changed with the event handling and the Chapter […]

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.