CATA (Centre Area Transportation Authority) recently released a free iPhone app for tracking their buses in real time. Although I don’t own an iPhone, based off the few times I’ve seen my friends use the app, I’ll say that CATA did an excellent job with it.
The iPhone app wasn’t CATA’s first foray into real-time [...]
I’ve been playing around with Google App Engine quite a bit lately. Whenever I’d create a new project, I’d start by copying and pasting a folder called “new_project_template” which is included in the software developers kit. The template contains a bare-minimum hello world script. As I made more and more apps, I realized that I [...]
I like using App Engine’s webapp framework. It’s very simple and similar to the web.py framework. However, simple tasks such as outputting data or rendering templates require way too much boilerplate text. For example, to output a rendered template, you must type:
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template_values = {
‘greetings’: greetings,
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