Critter’s Code

So… I was made redundant from my company this past Friday. It happened during my yearly review. I actually got a weird feeling about it on Thursday when I was looking over my calendar for the next day. My review was setup for Friday at 4pm.. It just seemed like an odd time to me. End of day.. end of week.. Plus working in the mortgage industry, things have obviously been a bit slow lately.

I told one of the ladies that I work with, if there  are two people on the phone, I am getting laid off. Sure enough, my boss rang, said hello, then introduced someone from HR.

I jumped in, "Oh, I guess you are letting me go"

"So you were expecting this?"

"Two people on the phone, one of them being from HR"

So.. long story short.. I was let go. I have a ton of stuff to ship back to the office, but whaddayado, eh?

I posted a video on Seesmic, Friday saying I was available for hire. It led to talks this morning with Loic and Johann, and I am now officially a Seesmic employee. FTW!!

Suwheet!

For Seesmic World Project, I want to plot the video replies on a Google Map. The points will be geocoded by address off of the blog posts for example:

• Paris, France
• Cary, NC
• Riverside County, California
• Paris, France

As you can see from the list above, some posts will have the same title. Meaning when they are passed into Google Maps they will have the same Lat/Lon. When this happens, only the last point passed in will show. Basically what I need to do is take the query result and loop through it, combining the $post_content of duplicate $post_title’s into one $post_title

Did that make sense?

So, if I have

Post: Paris, France
Content: Hello, I am Steve from Paris

Post: Cary, NC
Content: Hello, I am Critter from Cary

Post: Paris, France
Content: Good Evening, I live in Paris

Would become:

Post: Paris, France
Content: Hello, I am Steve from Paris
Good Evening, I live in Paris

Post: Cary, NC
Content: Hello, I am Critter from Cary

Any suggestions or assistance would be greatly appreciated. PHP is not really my thing.

I just recently switched this blog over to a new server. And at the same time, ended up switching the engines behind the blog. I moved from BlogCFC to WordPress, only because I do not have ColdFusion on this hosting account. I know, I know, blasphemer!! This is actually my first time using WordPress for my blogging, but so far, I am quite pleased with it.

Over the next few days I will be working at extracting all my old posts from old server and getting them imported into WordPress.

I had a few flex samples that had quite a bit of traffic. I will work on getting those over first.