About two months ago a coworker of mine, Kevin Holy, had an idea for an application that could pull howto information off of automotive forums so it could be displayed on your phone/tablet will working in the garage. At that time I modified the screen scraping code from the Winking Lizard World Tour application that I’d previously been working on so it would work for the forum. He also incorporated Sencha.io Src to resize images on the fly. Pretty basic stuff, but does what it needs to do. The app is on the Android Market… excuse me, Google Play as The370z.com DIY’s.
Tiny RSS Reader
A few weeks ago I hacked together an RSS reader (available on Gist here) with just a few lines of actual JavaScript code in an HTML page. It only took about 30 minutes from start to finish. It’s just a proof of concept, but does the job pretty well. I made this after finding the Google Feed API as well as what appears to be an undocumented Google Favicon Service (you call http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=google.com for example). I don’t intend on taking this any further but have since incorporated both the APIs into another active project.
Winking Lizard World Tour 2012
A fellow developer, Greg Noble and I having been working on an unofficial application for the Winking Lizard World Tour 2012. It is now available on the Android Market and soon we hope to have this listed on the Apple market as well. It can easily be ported to other devices by request. There are also plans to release a limited free version. It was built with Sencha Touch and PhoneGap and does screen scrapping of the official Winking Lizard tour site found here. As we are both well into the tour ourselves expect to see this application have frequent updates throughout the year.
3/14 Update: Now available on iPhone and iPad as well: http://t.co/qyFtsISx.