Getting things started

Welcome to the new blog for iTransit.

The goal for this blog is purely to be an information resource for the development and deployment of iTransit.

So anything we’re doing, anything we’re thinking of doing, etc.

Right now we’re hammering out the plan for release of several new things, not necessarily in this order:

• New version of the web application
• A Mac OS X Dashboard widget (other widget platforms immediately thereafter)
• An of course, a Native iPhone Application

There’s a bit of work there, and it’s worth noting here the extra effort (and time) going into making the backend usable. We’ll have full support for trackwork/service changes in all supported modes of transport, so making sure that being able to generate and modify timetables easily to reflect changes is vital – if its too much effort to update then it just won’t get done and we lose a valuable piece of information.

We’re going to take a piece from the Blizzard playbook though and not announce a release date until I’m sure it’s ready. We’ve just not been happy with the quality of what we have right now, so we’ll keep it to ourselves for now.

Here somewhere too you will see a signup for the beta testing, as we get closer to that. For those people that have already emailed/sent feedback about being a beta tester you don’t need to do so again, you’re already on the list

Anyway, back to it.

-bok