[Chicago] Chance to try out AppEngine (and make my life easier)

[Rick Flosi]

CTA Launched there limited line Bus Tracker with mobile (I think txt msg and
web) interface on Monday: http://ctabustracker.com/bustime/home.jsp

I haven't tried it.

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Richard Stack <richard.stack at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

>  A great idea, but there's a neat opportunity here. A site called
> nextbus.com will tell you when the next bus will arrive at your corner. It
> does this for a number of cities/areas, including PACE. No integration that
> I know of with the CTA or Metra, but busses have GPS.
>
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> *From:* chicago-bounces at python.org [mailto:chicago-bounces at python.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Kevin Boers
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 08, 2008 5:22 PM
> *To:* The Chicago Python Users Group
> *Subject:* Re: [Chicago] Chance to try out AppEngine (and make my life
> easier)
>
>
>
> Cosmin,
>
>
>
> This sounds like a great idea; I'd love to help out!
>
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> As it happens, I don't have a github account, so if you want to pass an
> invite my way, that'd be awesome.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kevin
>
>
>
> On Apr 8, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Cosmin Stejerean wrote:
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>
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>  Well, it seems there is an ability to invite developers to collaborate
>
> with you on an application.
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>
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> I've been planning for a while to create a better interface to the
>
> Metra train times (metrarail.com). I'd like something with Twitter
>
> integration (so I can ask from SMS what the next train is) and a
>
> smarter ability to search (remember my stations and only show me
>
> upcoming train times for the current day of the week by default).
>
> I've started working towards this in Django but it seems like a
>
> perfect excuse to to start doing some AppEngine work. Let me know if
>
> you'd like to help with this and I can try to add you as a developer
>
> to the project (you'll need Git for this, I have 2 GitHub invitations
>
> left if anyone is interested). Also let me know if you have any other
>
> suggestions or ideas for the project.
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>
>
> --
>
> Cosmin Stejerean
>
> http://blog.offbytwo.com
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>
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> PS.
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>
>
> Completely unrelated but, you have the ability to restrict
>
> authentication to your Google Apps domain. This means it is possible
>
> to create (and perhaps resell) applications designed for internal use
>
> only and integrate it into the existing Google Mail, Docs, etc.
>
> http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/domains.html
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