working with me - a home for Neil Crosby

Recently, I received an email from a user of one of the Google Apps domains that I administrate. They were having the problem that if they visited Google Books or Maps and tried to sign in with their account, they would receive an error message stating...

Now, I know I said there were only going to be three parts to this series, but I’ve just realised that I missed out a quite important part of how I built Beer Near Me – how I found the beer!
Even though Beer Near Me was only ever really built as a weekend project intended to help me learn about using the navigator.geolocation API, it was still pretty important to get some data to display on a map showing where the local beer was. After all...

The final thing to do now that you’ve found the user’s latitude and longitude and told them where they are in a human readable format is to put all the data you’ve gathered onto a map.
Now, there are lots of tutorials out there for the JavaScript based Google Maps API. So, if you want to learn how to use the JavaScript based API, then I urge you to pop off and look at one of those. For Beer Near Me, I started off using that API. However...

I’m not a designer. That much is obvious from looking at the websites I produce that haven’t been designed by someone else. That doesn’t mean I don’t care though; which is why on Christmas day last year I ordered Robin Williams...