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Look! UIAlertView is dating UITableView!

Written by marc on July 15, 2009 — Leave a Comment

As you may have guessed, this is about UIAlertView containing a UITableView. Since I started playing around with GameKit, I had the issue that I couldn’t use the PeerPicker with Client/Server stuff.. I can’t really get into the stuff we are doing and where we are using it – but I can offer you some [...]

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Use pastie.org with LaunchBar

Written by marc on January 8, 2009 — 11 Comments

Since a while, I’m having senile insomnia, so I thought, I should use it for good. One thing that always bugs me at work is the work with pastie (or any other paste-thing) because of the copy – paste – copy thing. So I wrote a very little script to use it with LaunchBar. What [...]

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There are friends and there are friends..

Written by marc on August 22, 2008 — Leave a Comment

If you’ve ever used “GottaGo“, you might have experienced it from time to time: The stations around you disappear on the “Closest” Screen. Why does this happen? Let me explain. So far, I used the nearby search from Google to get a list of stations around you. Fairly simple. But.. SBB.ch does i.e. not understand [...]

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Whatever will be, will be..

Written by marc on August 11, 2008 — 3 Comments

Well.. Since you folks are really into changes these days, I’ll provide you with a little sneak-preview of what’s coming in the v0.1.0 – Annapurna release.   First off: Language support. GottaGo will be available in english, german, french and italian. And as you see: A totally new UI. (The green disappeared! ;))     [...]

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Well.. here we go. In the AppStore

Written by marc on August 7, 2008 — Leave a Comment

Whew.. Funny things happen, when you’re off for a day without internet connection. `GottaGo’ is out. (In case you missed it: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=285851523&mt=8 ) I got a few e-mails and private messages that – I think – contain questions that some of  you may care about. Is this an official SBB App? Nope. If it’s not official, [...]

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A swiss public transit API (SBB and Google..)

Written by marc on August 3, 2008 — 8 Comments

Here we go.. After weeks of going back and forth between a crappy API (sbb.ch) with exact schedule and a nice API with wrong schedule (google.com), I finally merged them into one. What are the capabilities of this API? Let’s make an example. Given you entered from = “Feldstrasse 133, Zürich” and to = “Bern”. [...]

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