Nice!
Good work... I think you might want to let the user set their 'home'
station?


On Jul 22, 5:12 pm, Jesse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've just finished my first iPhone specific web app: caltrain schedule
>
> it's available athttp://caltrainapp.com
>
> some details:
>
>  - parsing the html tables fromhttp://caltrain.com/timetable.htmlwas
> the hardest part because they aren't valid/well formed.  (usually they
> have times between as 1:00, for both 1am and 1pm, as well as an
> occasional 13:XX and other oddities.
>
>  - all the pages are pre-built: resulting in 6MB of html, and 1465
> files.
>
>  - built in ruby, using erb
>
>  - created links to google maps (which pop up in the maps app) -
> moviesapp.com used a string &oi=movies - anyone know what this is?
>
> ---
>
> I hope to move from iUI to a more suitable UI (not that iUI isn't
> good, but it isn't rich enough for the types of pages I need).  Plus
> bookmarkability would be nice ;)
>
> If anyone is interested I'll release the source under the GPL
>
> Jesse
>
> ps: There are hunks of (elisp?) code in comments of the timetable page
> on caltrain.com -- good to know lispers use errors like foo as well :p
>
>    (while (re-search-forward "</th><td" nil t)
>      (backward-char 3)
>      (save-restriction
>        (narrow-to-region (point) (progn (end-of-line) (point)))
>        (goto-char (point-min))
>        (let ((s '(1 1 3 2 3 2 3 2 2 3 2 3 2 2 3 2 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1
> 2 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 2 3 2 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 )))
>          (while s
>             (re-search-forward "\\(<td[^<>\n]*>\\)\\([^\n<>]*</td>\
> \)")
>             (replace-match (format "\\1<!%s-%d%s->\\2" "-" (car s)
> "-"))
>             (setq s (cdr s)))
>          (or (looking-at "</tr>") (error "Foo")))))


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