MappedUp Map with Geo Tagged Flickr Photos

Putting geo-tagged Flickr Photos on the Map
As most Jeroen Wijering projects, MAPPEDUP is a really cool flash map with lots of functionality. Mapped Up, under the same name, utilizes the code to display the latest news headlines from all over the world on the map. It looks awesome, so today I wanted to [...]

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Top Artists by Country from Last.FM

Last.fm XML data presented on amMap showing Most Popular Music per Country
I have mentioned amMap before, and now I was able to put it together with data from Last.fm. Last.fm has a top artist geo-aware data feed that shows the most popular artists this week in a particular country. I thought that this [...]

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Retrieve Events per Country using the Last.fm API

PHP script using cURL, XML, and AJAX via Prototype
I have been looking at the Last.FM API again to see how else it can be used and there are many things you can do with all the information last.fm contains. Today, I wanted to display a map, using amMap, and when someone presses on a [...]

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New Free WordPress Themes

Amazing New WordPress Templates
WordPress 2.6 just came out and this is my third list of kick ass wordpress themes, if you are looking to download some great themes check out Essential Wordpress Themes and Best Wordpress Themes. First two are my creations, or copies of existing non-wordpress templates, and the rest are links [...]

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Google Search Results in XML

XML format of Google Search for PHP
Today, I needed to pull Google Search results in XML format. I know this is possible via JavaScript by using the Google API and parsing the code, similarly to the way I parsed only images out of the XML feed using the Google Ajax Feed API.
But [...]

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JavaScript Horizontal Mover Menu

Horizontal Accordion without any JS libraries
At one point, I was working with a ton of data that had to be displayed on one page in a table format and the table was too large to be displayed on the page. I though about compressing each table td and on mouse hover or click opening [...]

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Last.FM API and Playing Music using XSFP Playlists

Building music web apps on last.fm api
Last.fm is awesome for many reasons so I wanted to dig into their API in order to see how it can be used to create some cool web applications. I first looked at the available feeds and realized that I really need to look into this XSFP format [...]

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Post Quotes Plugin for WordPress

Quotations Plugin for WordPress with cURL
There are many Quotes Plugins for WordPress but I wanted to write one that will generate a quote for a post based on the category name in which the post exists. So, if you are blogging about excellent javascript scripts and your entry lives inside a “tools” category, I [...]

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Feeds in your Blog with Google Ajax Feed API

Put RSS Feeds in your WordPress blog without extra plugins or jQuery
I started using the Google Ajax Feed API on YeFind and i really like it, so I decided to write a WordPress plugin that will use the API to place rss or xml feeds on your wordpress blog. There are plugins out there [...]

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Grabbing only Pictures out of an XML feed

Pulling Images from feeds with Google AJAX Feed API and Regular Expressions
Recently, I have been building a super aggregator and search engine website using various google APIs. The search engine is using the Google search API and most of the rss and xml aggregation is handled using the Google AJAX Feed API. I [...]

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