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My first Ruby mashup - placing geotagged photo data on a Google Map using flickr.rb
To help me learn Ruby, I created a mashup that takes a photo from Flickr , extracts its geotags and places the location of the photo on a Google map. Yes, I know that Flickr already has this functionality thru Yahoo maps, but I wanted to try out Google...

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Ruby invasion - day 2
So I spent the better part of today learning the rest of Ruby basics. Since I have limited experience with Perl and Java, this has been a tiny bit challenging. Regexp took some time to understand, for example. Adding an "If" clause to the *end* of a line...

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