Mohammad Azam a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP interview me at the MVP Summit 2009. He was very flexible as he accepted to do the podcast in the middle of the hotel lobby. Download the podcast here Read the podcast post here Keep in touch with Mohammad at Highoncoding and you may find a great podcast like “become...

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Finally this weekend I updated the Editor on the GeoTwitter as promised on the previous post . The GeoTwitter Editor is a GeoRSS creator on the web. Allows users to share geographic information fast and easy. You can find the source code for GeoTwitter version 1 at Codeplex/geotwitter I have been extremely...

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Every year before Halloween, the fires begin here in Southern California. Tonight I was using GeoTwitter GeoRSS Editor to track the fire to share it with my family and friends. The steps to create your georss feed is pretty simple, add as many lines, points and polygons into the map and press Save, after...

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GeoRSS is a great way to share geographic information that updates all the time, sending simple geography (points, lines and polygons to a consumer. GeoRSS is RSS with a collection of points, as flexible as RSS with the advantage of providing location to your information. A great tool that I personally...

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This is just a quickie to see if that helps anybody. The GridView in GeoTwitter had a problem as was using the DataKeyNames. I was getting the error on the viewstate MAC failed error. Looks like adding the code below on the web.config fix the issue. <pages enableEventValidation="false" viewStateEncryptionMode...

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July 8th I’ll be presenting http://geotwitter.net at the Inland Empire User G roups. I don’t have a power point presentation yet for GeoTwitter . Right now I show the website and each part of the code as well as how to connect to the C odePlex to download the latest and greatest. However there isn’t...

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  Finally I released the first version, you can see the big map with all the twitters here. Added the iPhone supprt, new look and feel, contact form for your feedback as well. Please let me know what you think and where to go from here! The biggest feature that I have been asked by many users, was...

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  You can add Geotwitter.NET to your website or blog with a simple JavaScript include and will provide two functions: You can see the last 10 users using Twitter the have a location as well as you can only show your last location. The code to add on your website is: <script type= "text/javascript"...

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I spent this shorts periods of free time this long weekend providing iPhone support to GeoTwitter , actually for a non UI person like me a little more difficult that I thought, still looking back to it, looks pretty crappy compared to other iPhone designs like Hahlo . The improvements in the new version...

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Added a new feature requested that had nothing to do with geography but seemed pretty cool. I'll be keeping track of peoples replies to see who gets more replies on the public timeline. There is a delay on the public timeline, however hopefully in a few days we can tell who is in the lead. See report...

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I would like to say that if Google can call their mail Beta for 2 years I can start releasing Alpha software, correct? To follow with the GeoTwitter series , I have release Alpha 0.2 . Alpha 0.2 is a complete application with all bugs clean and tested, so you are safe to install it and play with it,...

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Finally I found a permanent home for geoTwitter where you can check out the Alpha 0.1 and of course follow me at Twitter. To stay up to date with GeoTwitter news subscribe to the feed . GeoTwitter is being hosted by Hostingfest , a extremely cheap yet good hoster. I can't believe they are still there...

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This post is part of a series about GeoTwitter and GeoRSS . I was in my spare time developing a proof of concept called GeoTwitter , after gathering all requirements I decide it to make the project open source, this way other people can help me finishing it as well as other developers can benefit of...

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As many of you know, at least the 2 people that read my blog. I am writing a new web application called geotwitter for fun. Link to the series In a few words, provides a geo location to you updates in twitter. There are many features that are not implemented in GeoTwitter that other applications have...

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This is an update from the GeoTwitter idea. I started using MVC with a few bumps on the way. Please let me know what you think so far. The concept as you know is simple, adding a location to your twitter. So when you see a message from any of your friends, you'll see a link to be able to be displayed...

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Being at Microsoft makes you want to write code at all times. Trust me you cannot be in the campus and don't fire VS2008 or Twitter ;-) Following the post from yesterday . People around here use twitter to find other people in the campus, faster than email when isn't down. Now I have been thinking...

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