Archive for December, 2008
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Sunday, December 14th, 2008
Unofficial CTA APIs: Innovation on Borrowed Time?
A couple of months ago, a Chicago software developer named Harper Reed (who also happens to be CTO of skinnycorp, purveyors of some of my favorite t-shirts) did some reverse-engineering of the Chicago Transit Authority’s Bus Tracker web applications to figure out how to access the realtime information that they displayed. He documented what he [...]
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
Two reasons why iPhone is now even better for transit
At the launch of the iPhone over a year ago, I got excited about how good the iPhone was for transit riders, and I’m happy to say that it’s gotten even better in recent months. First of all, the launch of the iPhone application store this July has led to unparalleled boom in the development [...]