Monthly Archives: February 2009

PadMapper for the iPhone Heading to the App Store

Pending Apple’s approval, the PadMapper iPhone app should be in the app store on Friday. I decided to charge $0.99 for it to subsidize the cost of running the web version a bit. Hopefully noone will be terribly offended .
It doesn’t have every feature I’d like to put in there, but it does the [...]

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PadMapper: iPhone Edition – Testers Wanted

Hey Guys.
Anybody looking for an apartment want to test the iPhone version of PadMapper and provide feedback on usefulness/bugs/etc? I’m basically looking for a couple of people who would like to test it in a real apartment hunting situation. It will only work in the cities where PadMapper is supported, since it’s grabbing data from [...]

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First it was slow, then it was fast

I noticed PadMapper wasn’t its old zippy self, so I did some database housecleaning, which seems to have sped it back up. Notice any difference? Still slow? For reference, it shouldn’t take 20 seconds for the initial set of points to show up in a city.

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The iPhone SDK and PadMapper Mobile

It’s been a hectic week, but I’ve been able to devote some time to learning the latest iPhone SDK. It’s a massive framework, so it’s a bit much to get one’s head around at first, but it’s really powerful. After reading a book on the topic for a few hours, I was able to crank [...]

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