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Until recently, building interactive web-based mapping applications has been a cumbersome affair. This changed when Google released its powerful Maps API. Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax was written to help you take advantage of this technology in your own endeavorswhether youre an enthusiast playing for fun or a professional building for profit. This book covers version 2 of the API, including Googles new Geocoding service. Authors Jeffrey Sambells, Cameron Turner, and Michael Purvis get rolling with examples that require hardly any code at all, but youll quickly become acquainted with many facets of the Maps API. They demonstrate powerful methods for simultaneously plotting large data sets, creating your own map overlays, and h...

This book is about the next generation of the Google Maps API. It will provide the reader with the skills and knowledge necessary to incorporate Google Maps version 3 on web pages in both desktop and mobile browsers. It also describes how to deal with common problems that most map developers encounter at some point, like performance and usability issues with having too many markers and possible solutions to that. Introduction to the Google Maps API version 3 Solutions to common problems most developers encounters (too many markers, common JavaScript pitfalls) Best practices using HTML/CSS/JavaScript and Google Maps What youll learn Building reliable Google Maps web applications How to transfer from version 2 to version 3 of the API Best practi...

Are you interested in starting a blog but cant decide on which service to use? Googles Blogger offers many advantages over other blog publishing systems, including seamless integration with Google services and web applications. Beginning Google Blogger is a complete resource on how to create and manage a blog using Blogger. The book offers step-by-step instructions and visual aids which walk you through both the basics of Blogger and the advanced features it offersfrom creating a new blog and choosing fonts and colors, and installing custom blog graphics; to converting from a 2-column to a 3-column layout, setting up a domain name and creating an online store with a built-in navigational bar. The journey from newbie to experienced blogger will be...

Like music and movies, video games are rapidly becoming an integral part of our lives. Over the years, youve yearned for every new gaming console, mastered each blockbuster within weeks after its release, and have even won a local gaming competition or two. But lately youve been spending a lot of time thinking about a game idea of your own, or are exploring the possibility of making a career of this vibrant and growing industry. But where should you begin?Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame is written with the budding game developer in mind, introducing games development through the Python programming language and the popular Pygame games development library. Authored by industry veteran and Python expert Will McGugan, who worked on the...

Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional explains how to use the open source image manipulation program, GIMP version 2.4. Youll learn how to install GIMP on Windows, Linux, and MacOS X platforms. Once youve installed the application, youll learn about the interface and configuration options, and then jump into a quickandsimple project to familiarize yourself even further. With fourcolor graphics and screenshots throughout, youll learn how to prepare camera images for display on web pagesincluding functions like rescaling, cropping, and balancing color. The book also explains with great detail how to utilize layers, paths, and masks. Youll also learn how to draw lines and shapes, use patterns and gradients, and even create your own brushes, patter...