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Month: February 2009

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PHP Wrapper for Yahoo! GeoPlanet

February 25, 2009 1 min read

Earlier this month I wrote a quick PHP wrapper for Yahoo!’s GeoPlanet API. It’s a super useful service for querying geographical information about nearly any place on earth — addresses, landmarks, colloquial locations, etc. Or, as the official description says…
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Serving Static Content on Amazon S3 with s3up

February 7, 2009 3 min read

I’ve written twice about using Amazon S3 to host your website’s static content. It’s a great solution for small websites without access to a real content delivery network. And now that Amazon has launched CloudFront on top of S3, it’s…