New Toy! My first mashup

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Dear Reader,

I finally found time to write a mashup. Actually this started out as a project for a customer and this page is just an unbranded version of the one I gave to them.

http://www.calevans.com/trackups.php is the URL. It’s really very simple. You put in a valid UPS package id and it tracks it via UPS’s API and then displays a Google map of where your package is/was.

It was fun to write. I’m still working out some kinks in version 1. Version 2, which is about 50% done is an all AJAX version. Once I get it done I’ll probably write up a quickie article on how I did it. (Like anyone with Google and half a brain can’t figure it out.)

Until next time,
(l)(k)(bunny)
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This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006 at 2:46 pm and is filed under JavaScript, PHP, Programming, SQL. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “New Toy! My first mashup”

Chris Shiflett Says:
August 3rd, 2006 at 10:33 am
Can you show us some sample output, for those who aren’t currently tracking a UPS package? :-) Even a few images or something would be good enough to get an idea.

By the way, your blog could use a bit of extra space on the left. Everything seems very squished.
Cal Evans Says:
August 6th, 2006 at 8:40 am
done!

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