Google Search API for Shopping

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Google has recently launched a new API for its merchant product data, that can be used publicly by developers, allowing them to search and retrieve product information (like those appearing in Google Product Search and Product Ads). Another interesting fact … Continue reading

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GeoIP 0.4.0

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Version 0.4.0 is now out, and it addresses an issue a colleague brought in while using the gem with Ruby 1.9.*. The problem was that certain characters that geoiplookup spat out were not valid utf-8 chars, and as you might … Continue reading

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GeoIP 0.3.7 update

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Version 0.3.7 is now out, and it addresses an issue a colleague encountered which trying to run the installer on an Amazon instance, that did not have sudo installed. The fix ensures that the installer works on systems where sudo … Continue reading

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GeoIP 0.3.4

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Version 0.3.4 is now out, including a minor fix pushed by leonid-shevtsov. The fix ensures that the installer works for people that use other means of installing GeoIP, such as debian or redhat packages. You ca view the source code … Continue reading

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autometal-geoip 0.3.3 out

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Only a couple of days after the last update, but a major overhaul had to happen, so I might as well share it. Version 0.3.3 features Geoip’s Organization Data integration (as long as you’ve paid for it), changed the way … Continue reading

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GeoIP 0.1.3 Bugfix

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A new version of the Autometal-GeoIP gem is out now. If you have already installed the gem, you do not need to update as this is a bugfix release fixing an installation crash. Here is the offending file, and here … Continue reading

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