[iRail] NMBS is making their own iPhone app.

Fri Oct 22 23:15:14 UTC 2010

Chill :). Their app isn't in the app store yet.
I have seen no ads, and if it passes now, why not wait and see the reaction of users (and improve where they failed)

Releasing a half finish app will make people go "zomg BeTrains sucks" and they won't try out updates either.

And only the Standard posted something about it. No major news yet afaik. And we all knew NMBS was going to release an iPhone app soonish. 

You can start with open sourcing PHP chat part; Pieter can directly improve and fix stuff there.
We'll remain backwards compatible and hand out API keys for security. The keys are read from a not open sourced file or from a DB, and thus, those keys remain private. 

I'll guarantee you there won't be any spam. Just you, Christophe and Tim soon that will need to request an API key and implement the use of the key.

As for open sourcing your Xcode app, we don't all own an iPhone, but we can read the code and see funky stuff, and comment on that, without directly editing your code, just "hey, did you try to <fill in something>" ;)

I can help you through with github or something or host beta iPhone BeTrains bins ("nightly build", you just provide the provision file with all the IDs)

Let's be clear, we're all in this together. We're a team :P Need help? Ask!

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On 23 Oct 2010, at 01:06, louis de Decker wrote:

> Hey Bart and Koen
> 
> @Bart, thanks for the precision, I do understand the point about the open-source philosophy in its general way. 
> Working for a private company who's not really keen on sharing its project sources, I must admit I'm not used to opensource, but you know, objective-c is a new thing for me, I might as well embrace a new philosophy at the same time :-)
> What I was questionning was how putting it opensource in the current time frame  (small one) and ressources we have (me) would make the project go faster. 
> So just to be clear: I'm ok to go opensource, my only concern is to deliver the app fast.
> 
> @Koen I'm cheered up :) You're absolutely right about us focussing on the users rather than the features race. I'm curious to see how the users will actually use the chat.
> 
> sleep well guys,
> Louis
> 
> 
>> hi Louis,
>> 
>> I suppose Pieter tries to make a point: opensource/community software is better then other. it probably will be better then the sncb/nmbs app. Later on, when we actually know its better, Pieter will most likely write an article that opensource is the best way of making software.
>> and he will use your program as an reference.
>> 
>> You don't need to see this as a bad thing. you are going to make a better app then the sncb/nmbs, you will feel good about that, you will!
>> 
>> Bart
>> 
>> 2010/10/22 Louis de Decker <louisdedecker at gmail.com>
>> Hey guys
>> 
>> I'm having an interesting day, everything began quiet good this morning, but as the hours passed by it became more and more shitty. I actually did spend 6hours fighting at work getting some rootkits/viruses off my computer, went home and learned about the sncb app... I wonder what's gonna happen tonight, mayby my appartment will burn down :)
>> 
>> So I was discussing it with Christophe, we surely will have some interesting aspects about the app that the sncb won't have (mainly the chat feature), it's so pitty they will have some publicity about their release before us.
>> What I plan to do this weekend :
>> -migrate all my php scripts to the irail server
>> -setup my app so it runs from the new server
>> -continue the debugging of the most important things
>> 
>> Pieter, I've added you in my gmail talk thinggy, my skype account is louis.de.decker 
>> You're talking about putting the project opensource, actually I don't understand how this is going to fasten the pace of the development as I'm apparently the only iphone dev here (or not?), and it'll be quiet difficult for somebody else to go into my code (or work in parallel) . The php scripts are ready so normally there isn't much to do on that side.
>> 
>> 
>> Have a nice evening,
>> Louis
>> 
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