Week 12

Dear Blog,

It has been a successful week, it has been busy and crazy but defiantly successful.

All the core functionality of the application has been implemented, a major major milestone for us all, and we are quietly chuffed that it is all working so well. 

Specifically we have completed integrating the web services, so all fuel searches are based of the live data now, and it is working for all fuel prices in all capital cities. We thought debugging this part of the application was going to take for ever, but it seems to be working just fine, MotorMouth's data has been solid as a rock, and the little RegEx trick we implemented with test data for stations with two streets listed in their address, is working for all the other stations listed in the system. It is so nice when things just work :).

We have just finalized the social networking side of the application, and now any stations fuel prices can be shared though your Facebook or Twitter account with the tweet or post generated automatically and editable before it is posted.

The web services queries are now threaded using NSThread so the interface is still responsive when the application is waiting for a response from MotorMouth.

We have also had some spare time to start working on some added functionality of the application, and searching along a route looks to be working in at a rudimentary level. It can successfully plot the route, the next step is making it search along a closer area to the route rather then the map that encloses it.

With the final demo and presentation looming next week week we have started working on the slides. We have all got together and reviewed our mid semester review and project proposal as a way to reflect on the processes we went through to get to this point.

Since the mid semester review did not go at all as well as we thought it did, we booked time with Aaron to ensure we were sufficiently prepared for it this time around. The meeting defiantly helped clear up the format and content to be included on the slides of the final presentation.

This is the final slog now, better get back to it!
Dan T