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Travel Butlers, African Safari Holiday Specialists - Google Maps development

Richard Benson10 January 2011Company News, Portfoliocomments

Travel Butlers provide tailored holiday packages in South Africa and the neighbouring countries.  Traditionally their website development had been done in-house but they needed some advanced Google Maps API programming to push their site forward and make the experience for their customers that little bit better.

 
Working together with Travel Butler's director Paul Campbell, Surrey Business IT produced a module they could bolt-on to their existing website and infrastructure that would automatically generate a number of different types of Google Map; from details of attractions in specific regions to itineraries for individual bespoke holiday packages.

Example Travel Butlers Map 3Example Travel Butlers Map 4
 
Built from the ground up, the solution allows them to customise anything in the map and replace all of their existing static image maps with interactive versions all from the same code-base and an XML file.  Working this way meant that Travel Butler's in-house developer only had to produce simple XML from their own back-end to be able to create any number of different map varieties.
 
Example Travel Butlers Map 1Example Travel Butlers Map 2
 

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A pseudo Windows sudo

Richard Benson10 January 2011Administration, IT Proscomments

Often when using the command prompt in Windows Vista and Windows 7 you'll need to run the command as an Administrator and whilst running a command prompt elevated is not tough, it's fiddly. If you've forgotten to do it before you've moved your way around the file system it can be very annoying.

Linux has sudo but Windows has no alternative, so we knocked together a very simple sudo for Windows.
To use it, you'll currently need Visual Studio 2010 to compile, then place it in System32 (or any PATH folder) and simply type:
sudo <your-command> <arguments>
To run a permanently elevated command prompt, you can simply type "sudo cmd" into your start bar search and save yourself the additional mouse clicks required to do this the traditional way.

The code is available on our GitHub. There is a pre-compiled binary available, but check your dependencies first.
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