Category Archives: seattlebus

Bits and pieces about creating, updating, and maintaining the iPhone application SeattleBus

SeattleBus and the iPad

Posted on April 18, 2010 by Joe

I received a call last night, rather out of the blue. “Are you porting OneBusAway to the iPad?” was the opening line. “Uh… No, but then i didn’t write OneBusAway either. I wrote SeattleBus…” That bit of confusion resolved, we … Continue reading →

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Seattle Bus makes TechFlash Todd Bishop’s top 5

Posted on June 13, 2009 by Joe

Kris Markel let me know today via Twitter that Seattle Bus made Todd Bishop’s Top 5 list of iPhone apps. A very nice to thing to hear indeed! It’s especially nice news coming back from WWDC where my good friends … Continue reading →

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Seattle Bus updated to version 1.2.0 – ready for sale

Posted on March 6, 2009 by Joe

I received the email notification tonight – Seattle Bus 1.2 is now available for sale again on the App Store. The new version is all about the new parser which is able to read the not-quite-valid HTML page that provides … Continue reading →

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SeattleBus 1.2.0 sent in for review

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Joe

Seattle Bus 1.2.0 has been pushed up to the App Store for application review. This update changes out the underlying parser, allowing the application to use King County’s provided real-time data feed (http://trackerloc.kingcounty.gov/avl.jsp) instead of the one hosted by UW … Continue reading →

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Temporarily removed from sale

Posted on February 16, 2009 by Joe

Since I haven’t been able to get the site providing the data back online within the week, I’ve temporarily removed Seattle Bus from sale on the AppStore. I’m working on a “fix” (changing the data provider) now that will hopefully … Continue reading →

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Data feed for Seattle Bus stalled out

Posted on February 9, 2009 by Joe

A quick update for folks looking for help with Seattle Bus: The site that the application uses for it’s data source (mybus.org) has been intermittently available recently, and today it’s been down completely. This is a site run at the … Continue reading →

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How people really use the iPhone

Posted on November 12, 2008 by Joe

I saw this from Daring Fireball: How people really use the iPhone.  It is a fantastic, professional user-experience overview of a variety of applications – but most importantly some real information on how folks are using the interface. If you’re … Continue reading →

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Competition for Seattle Bus

Posted on November 1, 2008 by Joe

I found out this morning that I have competition for Seattle Bus! Barry Kaplan made a damn-near copy of my application and is selling it on the App Store for $0.99. From the initial reviews, he apparently started selling it … Continue reading →

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SeattleBus Diary: problems getting a distribution build made correctly

Posted on October 11, 2008 by Joe

This isn’t new news – just bits that I couldn’t post because of Apple’s NDA on the technologies behind the iPhone. I wrote the results a little while ago – but I wanted to put something up here for Google … Continue reading →

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SeattleBus Diary: Using CLANG static analyzer with an iPhone project

Posted on October 11, 2008 by Joe

Like a number of other Mac developers, I caught the word and then the bug for using Clang Static Analyzer. I remember when I first caught wind of it, hearing about it on twitter and spotting a number of del.icio.us … Continue reading →

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