Finally! After 30 minutes of coding and 5 hours of modification(I wasn't satisfied on how it looks so i ended up revising it a couple of times.. :P This also includes me watching UFC at the same time:D) I have finally released the first beta of the DevPinoy Visitor Locator. DPVL is an application that displays the geographical locations of visitors in the DevPinoy.org website and plots those visitors location to a Google Map control.

Below is the release notes I have created for this application (i'm too tired to explain everything so just read it :P)

"Thanks to Bill Pierce for his Google Maps Control which i have recompiled into .NET 2.0 assemblies(just minor changes to some deprecated calls in script registration routines.).

This application querries a web service from HostIp.info to get the longitude, latitude and other geological information for a specified visitor (I didn't use the xml generated by the service because i'm having problems parsing the data.. gml formatting issues that i'm hoping to address tommorow... instead,i used HTTP-GET in getting the information from the web service). Those information are then stored to into a SQL Server database and retrieved and plotted to a Google Map control when this page is viewed.

The idea behind this site was inspired by those free stats website that puts too much advertisements on their site which clutters my screen intead of being an information resource(some have popups too!).

Some IP address might not be recognized by the application. This means that the database of HostIp.info doesn't have necessary informaion for that IP. please go to their website f you would like to help them in building their ip-to-geolocation database.

I'm planning to release the source for this application in the next couple days... i just need to polish it since most of the controls and variables are not properly named (i'm getting this direcory not founds error after i haved moved the application whenever i'm trying to change the control name). Some of the functions should be move into a class and refactored which i didn't do because i'm too darn lazy today... :) but, i'll probably do it tommorow... shoot me an email at keith.rull at gmail dot com if you have any comments or suggestion about this app.. thanks!"

The application is currently deployed on the DevPinoy.org website(you can see an icon similar to the one above) and can be viewed here.