var blog = { 
    author: "Burcu Dogan",
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    author_email: "burcu...@googlemail.com",
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    posts: [
        {
	    title: "Setting bounds of a map to cover collection of POIs on Android", /* 3 comments */
            body:
"

Lately, as I browse web for maps related questions on Android, what’s frequently requested is an example of setting bounds of a map (zooming to a proper level and panning) to be able show all of the pins given on the screen. Most of the maps APIs provide this functionality such as Google Maps API, [...]

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	},
        {
	    title: "W3C Widgets: The good, the bad and the ugly", /* 2 comments */
            body:
"

It hasn’t been a while since ppk wrote about totally a new W3C movement called “Widgets“. A Widget is a downloadable archive of HTML, JavaScript, CSS and a configuration file. It’s a downloadable web front-end. Basically it’s designed to build mobile apps to avoid extra network usage consumed to download heavy weight pages, CSS and [...]

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	},
        {
	    title: "Custom Scroll Distance for UIScrollView", /* 6 comments */
            body:
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Most recently, I was trying to create a slider for users to navigate between different items. A scroll view was working fine since it implements most of the scrolling behavior I needed in my application natively. But the content I want to scroll was smaller in width and UIScrollView is designed to scroll multiples of [...]

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	},
        {
	    title: "Maps Development on Android: Registering a Maps API key", /* 2 comments */
            body:
"

Location based applications are  musts on mobile platforms. Android does not have maps natively but Google Maps team is providing an add-on that comes with Android SDK (at least 1.5). In this post, I’m not going to show you how to pop out maps on your little mobile screen, but underline the application signature details [...]

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	},
    ],
    feed: "http://feeds.feedburner.com/burcudogan",
    copyright: "Writings and the JS object literal template is by Burcu Dogan."
};