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I will now Preen
May. 24th, 2013 11:47 am@wiscon37 until WisSched I never had an app that so perfectly fit my needs. I am SO excited for my first con!
— Olivia(@osailor) May 22, 2013
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The Groundspeed of Joy
May. 24th, 2013 11:28 amI drove for eleven hours yesterday (including through some construction-site nightmares in Illinois — Hey, Illinois: your tolls are out of control. You expect me to pay those price to drive such terrible roads?) and finally arrived in Madison, WI, where I’m now hobnobbing with some of the most awesome people on the planet!
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Writer’s Workshops at WisCon
Dec. 5th, 2012 01:40 pmWhat do people think of the Writer’s Workshops that take place at WisCon? Has anyone on my friends list tried one? Impressions?
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WisSched for Android
Nov. 7th, 2012 11:09 pmMade some good progress tonight. I’m going to hafta make some decisions about how much theming I’m gonna do. Frinstance: here is a snippet of info from the “Con Info” part of the app:
Internally, I store the content as simple HTML, and on the iPhone, I apply a bit of CSS glory to get a look and feel that approximates an iPhone feel (although I’m getting tired of that grey pinstripe background). Pop the HTML into a UIWebView and we’re golden.
The same general strategy works for the Android: throw the HTML into a WebView. But, in general, my Nexus tends to make very different default theme choices: showing white text on a dark background in non-HTML parts of the app. So I gave the Android version the most basic of CSS styles. This look fits in better with some of the other widget defaults. I’ll probably do some tweaking as I get closer to having a finished version.
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WisSched on iPad
Nov. 6th, 2012 06:31 pmYesterday, I submitted a new binary to Apple: there’s no WisCon 37 content, but I don’t want to wait until the last minute to get functional changes in place. There are a few new features, but the primary changes relate to iPhone 5 support and iPad functionality.
Here’s my favourite new piece, specific to the iPad:
The layout is dynamic: that is to say, that given all the panels, rooms, and timeslots, I’m able to lay it all out programmatically. There are tricky elements: multiple rooms that act as one room for certain events. The Gathering is sometimes considered to be multiple events that all take place in one room. And I want to do a second pass on my algorithm for time labels (what do you show when multiple time slots overlap?) But I’m mostly happy with the final result.
It’ll probably take 2 weeks before Apple approves it.
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