Archive for March, 2009

Learning the git, Mobidentica now Open Source

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

I’m learning to use the git, distributed version control system. It seems to be much faster then Subversion that I have used with my Google Code projects. I just created a repository on GitHub for Mobidentica project. Source code is available under the Apache License 2.0. If you like to clone the repository, use this:
git [...]

Optimizing Trail Recording

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

I coded a prototype how we could record fewer GPS positions in Mobile Trail Explorer and therefore save some memory but still have the same level of detail of the trail. Video might explain it best. Unoptimized recording is on the left and optimized trail is on the right.

The algorithm simply checks if the current [...]

Adding Laconi.ca support

Friday, March 20th, 2009

I just coded a new version of Mobidentica application. Now you can define custom service URL when logging in. This way you can use it with all services that are built on top of Laconi.ca platform. This is possible because Laconi.ca has built-in support for Twitter compatible API.
I just tried it with identi.ca and miggi.fi [...]

Mobile Trail Explorer v1.14

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

It took a while to make this release. There was some kinky issues with the S40 devices which caused them to crash on NoMethodFoundException (Issue 145). Release notes for v1.14:

New logo and icon (Thanks Ash)
Improved MapCache initialization time
Fixed information screen scrolling
Splash screen hang fix (Issue 106)
WGS84 coordinates in degrees and minutes (Issue 162, Thanks Marco [...]

Mobile Client for Identi.ca

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

My Twitter client, Twim, is getting a lot of positive feedback from users which is always nice to hear. There have also been few requests to create a version for Identi.ca service. Identi.ca is same soft of microblogging service as Twitter but maybe a bit different kind of users.
Today I spent few hours to create [...]