As with a house, software applications require maintenance too. Otherwise, you risk the digital equivalent of rot: bit-rot. Often, the maintenance is done like with a house: Superficially to make it look nice again with a new look-and-feel, a new colour scheme (a paint job) and a few new stock photos. But every once in a […]
Using Google Geocoding API with Geocoder
I was looking for a way to retrieve latitude and longitude for a given address. I thought that Google could provide me with a solution and eventually it did. First I was looking at the Google Data API, but found that some parts were deprecated and not supported anymore. The Google Geocoding API, that is […]