Google maps can now recognize “joburg”, find “steak restaurants near Table Mountain”, plot routes “from cape town to durban” and show me geo-tagged photos… but what else is new?

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Yesterday, I (proudly) sent the following mail to the office: “We have just officially entered PersonL (last minute) into this years TechCrunch50 Contest We had half applied, decided it was too late, and then they mailed me yesterday and asked me to complete the entry by tomorrow… So we got cracking and churned out a [...]

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Off we go! Another year of discovery, excitement, change and quite possibly some daunting challenges awaits our brave developer hearts once more. As we walk bleary-eyed to our desks again, fresh smells of coffee filling the office, it’s an excellent time to refocus – amongst other things – on our technical goals; how we’d like [...]

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Introduction First up, I have to mention that my first experience in the programming world was with C# .NET. I thought that I would never move to another language never mind leaving the .NET framework.I started working at WhiteWallWeb and the oddity language PHP4. Coming from a completely object oriented approach to the scripting PHP4 [...]

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I am currently at BarCamp Cape Town – day two. It is rather small but there are some smart guys here and the discussion is very stimulating. Currently Adrian Rossouw from Bryght did a useful presentation on Drupal. Everyone who has the required knowledge seems to agree with our hypothesis that Drupal is the best [...]

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Have a look at www.remax.co.nz Yesterday we published some nice enhancements for the public front end site using some AJAX scripting. Read on for more details…

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While most people seem to think this is a “bad idea” (that is a euphamism… “worst idea ever“) I think it is at least worth discussing – an AJAX based operating system is soon to be launched by AjaxLaunch. This will be accesible to users via a browser and files will be stored remotely. Perhaps [...]

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As said in my post about Google Finance, expect more stock related web apps… Have a look at StockTickr, a similar idea to SocialPicks, but not as nicely presented. You can add your own watchlist and see other user’s watchlists.

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