Packt Author Award 2009 – Vote for my book!
It’s a year to the month since I published my first book – Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects. I didn’t even realise it — time really does fly. Just got a mail from my publisher announcing that they’re having an award for the best author of the year. If you’re one of my readers, or if you enjoyed reading this blog please consider voting for my book.
Here’s the link – http://authors.packtpub.com/content/packt-author-award-2009. Just click on Vote Now! and select Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects in the list of books to vote for. Thanks!
Using the Yahoo Address Book APIs with Rails
I’ve recently taken up contributing my technical blog posts that involve Yahoo! technology on the YDN blog. This is my first post to the blog. I’m not repeating it here since you can read it all in YDN, so if you’re interested in the Yahoo Address Book API, I would encourage you to drop by.
Book published!
I haven’t written up anything recently because things has been moving at a dizzying pace both at work and with my other activities. The good news is finally published! After so many months of hard work nailing down those chapters and correcting and fine-tuning them, it’s finally done! I’m the proud author of a new book and it has been the fulfillment of a long-time dream.
You can get a copy of it from my publisher or from Amazon or from the other online bookstores mentioned here.
City360
I wrote this mashup application for my book originally but extended it during the Easter holiday weekend, spruced it up and made it more user-friendly (I hope) and changed it name to City360. The whole idea behind this app is to provide everything that you want to know about a city (hence 360 degree view on the city — corny name, I know).
So far what it can do is:
- Locate for you in an online map where the city is
- Give you information on nearby places of interest (click on the link and it will be shown on the map!)
- Tells you about the available hotels in the vicinity of the city
- Forecasts today’s and the next few day’s weather in that city
- Shows a mosaic of pictures taken by people on the Web, associated with this city (click on the picture to popup a bigger pic)
- Lets you convert your local currency to the city’s currency
- Tells you the current time at the city and compares it with your current location
Check it out at http://city360.saush.net
Let me know what else you think can improve this app!
Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects coming soon!
The title of the book is confirmed, it is called ‘Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects’! Check out the marketing writeup on Packt Publishing on it — http://www.packtpub.com/ruby-on-rails-web-mashup-projects/book
Spread the word! :)
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