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 [...]
It has been an observation of mine that some of the best online communities are the ones that most effectively mimic offline communities. Take Facebook for example. In my opinion, Facebook owes much of its success to its members’ use of real names. My news feed doesn’t say “OgReSLAYER91 is friends with Xx1337haXzorxX.” Instead, it [...]
Daehee Park recently wrote about scaping Penn State’s Schedule of Courses to create a free API of course data. His method of choice was to use Beautiful Soup for Python. As I have yet to learn Python, I will be taking a different approach towards the same end: Dapper. Dapper bills itself as a tool [...]
