First, let me remind you that in my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer , Dear Reader, I present to you thirty-seventh in a infinite number of posts of " The Weekly Source Code ." I'm working on a side-project with Rob Conery , Dave Ward and others and I want to be able to do a search immediately as the user arrives on the site, using their location derived from their IP Address. I want to use " Geolocation " or Reverse IP Address Lookup, and take an IP like 127.0.0.1 and turn it into "New York, NY." There are lots of services and databases that you can buy that will let you make a web service call and get back a location. Some will include latitude and longitude, some include the...(read more)
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