Dear all,
It seems that the Google Maps API is broken, and some places could show up without any maps. We can’t do anything about it, but please wait until Google fixes this (which I’m sure they’ll do very soon).
Thank you,
Michael

Dear all,
We had some hiccups with the apache configuration a few days ago whereby all traffic was routed to blog.places.ae instead of the main site. Furthermore, we had some issues on our Ruby on Rails app whereby the search results sometimes resulted in an HTTP/500 Error.
But that’s all fixed now, sorry for the inconvenience.
Thank [...]

Dear all,
Due to doing some testing with the new location engine in places.ae, we used “Bur Juman Mall” (link) as a test bed, and with some malfunctioning less-optimized SQL queries, we made the mall disappear.
We are notified when a huge amount of 404’s are thrown, and all URL’s that were looking for places nearby this [...]

Dear all,
I’m sorry for the delays in this blog. We had some hiccups on our previous blog, right the day before I went on holiday. So, the blog was a bit offline for a while.
After arriving back in Dubai, I fixed the blog. I’ll be restoring all -useful- content of the previous [...]