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This is not exactly a big achievement – although it took a while to build (worked late on a number of occasions), I’m quite proud of it! I had to get familiar with Google Map’s API and understand the basics of screen (or data) scraping. For this I found a very good web site (oooff.com) which had great examples. If you know PHP you can pick this up very quickly. If you don’t know PHP, do not worry as you can either learn the basics of it pretty quickly or you can buy an already made data scraping too (search the web – don’t forget Yahoo!).

Here’s in my first mashup application – the flights information data is taken from BAA’s web site. Good luck!

A guide to WAMPs (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP installers) from Wikipedia – useful for geeks like me who want to have a ‘live’ web server (Apache) on their PC. WAMPs also install PHP (scripting language) and MySQL (simple database – very popular) so we can make complete web based applications.

I’ve used XAMPP before – I’ve just installed WampServer to see how this compares with XAMPP. Watch this space.

CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. If you’re a developer who lives in the real world of shared hosting accounts and clients with deadlines, and if you’re tired of ponderously large and thoroughly undocumented frameworks, CodeIgniter could be the answer!

One day I’m going to sit down and learn Unix. This wil be useful in so many situation especially now that most Mac computers are fully Unix-compliant.

Here you can find some tips from IBM.