Dear Blog,
After finishing up the Station classes for the app, my girl friend fell quiet ill and I spent the entire week looking after her in and out of hospital.
Unfortunately uni is on the back burner for a bit.
The guys will continue development while I am away.
See you soon,
Dan T
Friday, August 27, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
Week 5
Dear Blog,
So after our initial consult with MM last week, we have been granted access to some data!!! It is just a historic snapshot of their system, but it works fine.
Basically they have just made a copy of their web services, that is tied into the historic data, but unlike its real counterpart we have free access to the data with no authentication required.
We have been playing a lot with the web services that are available, not everything is listed in our copy that is in the live version, namely pricing history, probably due to the limited data set that was supplied.
Having access to the data has fueled the planning of the application, knowing what information is returned allows us to more clearly conceptualize what will be available on the screen of the applications various interfaces, and given us more direction in the design of the app.
Additionally this week we have jumped up a notch in obj-c learning, playing with Mapkit and searching for frameworks and libraries that could be useful in the development of the app.
We just stumbled accross RouteBoxe API, which could be handy. It is a useful little tool that allows you to divide a route up and query boxes of a definable width along the entire route. The plan being we can plot a route from A to B in Petrol Saver, and plot the best petrol prices along the way, haha might be a bit far fetched for now, but we can dream :).
Anyway back to the labs!
Dan T
So after our initial consult with MM last week, we have been granted access to some data!!! It is just a historic snapshot of their system, but it works fine.
Basically they have just made a copy of their web services, that is tied into the historic data, but unlike its real counterpart we have free access to the data with no authentication required.
We have been playing a lot with the web services that are available, not everything is listed in our copy that is in the live version, namely pricing history, probably due to the limited data set that was supplied.
Having access to the data has fueled the planning of the application, knowing what information is returned allows us to more clearly conceptualize what will be available on the screen of the applications various interfaces, and given us more direction in the design of the app.
Additionally this week we have jumped up a notch in obj-c learning, playing with Mapkit and searching for frameworks and libraries that could be useful in the development of the app.
We just stumbled accross RouteBoxe API, which could be handy. It is a useful little tool that allows you to divide a route up and query boxes of a definable width along the entire route. The plan being we can plot a route from A to B in Petrol Saver, and plot the best petrol prices along the way, haha might be a bit far fetched for now, but we can dream :).
Anyway back to the labs!
Dan T
Friday, August 13, 2010
Week 4
Dear Blog,
The project is well underway now! Since deciding on our application we have began a comprehensive analysis of the applications design and functionality while finishing off the Project Proposal.
We have mocked up a heap of draft prototypes to get an idea what has to go into the application and as a tool to show our concept in our first meeting with MotorMouth this week.
After the consult with MM, we felt a lot more confident on the direction of the application. The admins at MotorMouth mentioned that they had tried to develop and application before, which failed, and virtually gave us free reign on development outcomes, colour & branding and seem genuinely enthusiastic about our ideas (route queries). The only real addition to the project that came from the meeting was the inclusion of some advertisement space somewhere in the application for a source of revenue for the company.
Other then that, we have just been chipping away at the Stanford iPhone development resources, objective-C is both familiar and so foreign at the same time, I am sure we will be fine, it all just comes with practice right!
Until next week,
Danny Tanner
The project is well underway now! Since deciding on our application we have began a comprehensive analysis of the applications design and functionality while finishing off the Project Proposal.
We have mocked up a heap of draft prototypes to get an idea what has to go into the application and as a tool to show our concept in our first meeting with MotorMouth this week.
After the consult with MM, we felt a lot more confident on the direction of the application. The admins at MotorMouth mentioned that they had tried to develop and application before, which failed, and virtually gave us free reign on development outcomes, colour & branding and seem genuinely enthusiastic about our ideas (route queries). The only real addition to the project that came from the meeting was the inclusion of some advertisement space somewhere in the application for a source of revenue for the company.
Other then that, we have just been chipping away at the Stanford iPhone development resources, objective-C is both familiar and so foreign at the same time, I am sure we will be fine, it all just comes with practice right!
Until next week,
Danny Tanner
Friday, August 6, 2010
Week 3
Dear Blog,
So after some much heated discussions this week, we have finally decided on an application.
Petrol Saver it is.
The deciding factors being the Timetable app that we liked had too many similar solutions already available on the market.
We just started researching ways to implement the fuel pricing, the core of the application and stumbled across what looks like a goldmine. There is a local company 'MotorMouth' that collate fuel prices for applications on iGoogle and they have a web interface available, problem is it is restricted.
We have just emailed & called the office, and are liaising with Tim Raiken about getting access to their information system.
Fingers Crossed,
Dan T.
So after some much heated discussions this week, we have finally decided on an application.
Petrol Saver it is.
The deciding factors being the Timetable app that we liked had too many similar solutions already available on the market.
We just started researching ways to implement the fuel pricing, the core of the application and stumbled across what looks like a goldmine. There is a local company 'MotorMouth' that collate fuel prices for applications on iGoogle and they have a web interface available, problem is it is restricted.
We have just emailed & called the office, and are liaising with Tim Raiken about getting access to their information system.
Fingers Crossed,
Dan T.
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