Creating County Overlays with Google Maps Javascript API

I am working with a client that wanted a feature on their website where users could find the nearest sales rep to their location. The client’s company have several sales reps that represent various counties in Southern California. I began working on using the awesome Google Map API to create such a tool, and it will be launched soon.

As I worked on the tool, I learned a lot, and I wanted to share some of my new-found knowledge with everyone. In the following post (including a video, yay!) I will show you how to create a county overlay on a Google Map.

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Display Flickr Feeds with JSON and Javascript

I have recently been working on a project for a client that required an image gallery component. The images that were to be used in the gallery were in a set on Flickr. I had two options on displaying the images:

• Download and re-upload each image to a directory on the project website (long, tedious, and inefficient)
• Pull the images in live from Flickr (dynamic and efficient)

I had a problem, however: I had no idea how to pull images live from Flickr. However, I had recently begun learning JavaScript, and wanted to put my new skills to the test. I began to research…
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