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Content by Colin J. Mccubbin
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Colin J. Mccubbin (BC, Canada)
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Dated... wait for an update..., Oct 8 2009
Google maps api continues to mature, but this book was written at the time of V1, and is now seriously out of date. I only just bought it (Sept06) and found little of practical interest in it. Needs updating!@
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The first book I've ever had to return for a refund at Amazon., Mar 24 2009
Although the author's name implies that he is an English speaker, I really hope he isn't, and that the faults I see are due to translation! The appalling grammar and nonsensical sentence construction make this book frustrating to read and a nightmare to understand.
Avoid it at all cost, my copy has gone back for a full refund.
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A great introduction and more!, Jun 6 2007
This is the book I wish I'd read last year before struggling with regex to scrape daily weather and snowfall data from my local ski hill's website and place it in a database to plot trends.
The explanations and sample applications were clear and the libraries, available for download at the book's website, are a great help towards simplifying the process of both downloading (using the cURL functions in php) and extracting the required data from the page. It greatly simplifies the process of isolating specific bits of information and relieves many of the headaches that using Regular Expressions cause.
All in all I found this book to be an inspiration and am now looking forward to rewriting my weather scraper using the techniques described.
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