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If you need to get geocode for a location dynamically( specially for realty sites), you can use google map geo api which is very straight forward. Let you need to know geocode for “New York 10001″, that is city with zipcode, send your request to google map api as follows -
http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=New+York+10001&output=xml

the output parameter is to specify output format, you can pass csv also to get the value as csv, json and kml too. Its work well for USA and Canada but not works well for UK, show about a mile far from the location. Get the details here – http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/

One of my client wants a Expressionengine twitter module by which he will able to update twitter status from EE admin panel, can store few messages and can scheduled the stores messages for specific time. Later his twitter status will be updated on scheduled time with the store messages. I think, its exciting stuff. It’s done and i want to share this module with you.
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If you want to show live weather info, you can use the attached script here. A few days ago i developed this script which parse weather information from yahoo. Update/modify the files as your needed. Get the script from here

Also, i’ve built another script which parse feed from http://accuweather.com because yahoo feed doesn’t provide weather cast for south pole but it was needed to me. If you see yahoo provide your expected location’s weather cast, use yahoo’s feed instead of accuweather. Yahoo is always detail oriented for any service.

Day by day twitter gets more popularity for its simplicity and usability. Using this site you can share your status to your network(http://www.twitter.com). Read the rest of this entry »