I still have a lot of development to do to finish this app up, but here’s a short update on progress.

The check creation (list display + price entering) screens are ready, so is the screen to set up tip and tax values with persistent data storage. The split itself is the last thing that needs implementation, but it’s probably going to be the easiest step now.

On Saturday we gave it a real life test on entering information only to find out that the original idea was flawed. Read more…

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ufly says:
August 13, 2008 @ 15:56

Great, dude! So when is next real life testing?

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Eldar says:
August 13, 2008 @ 17:44

Hehe sounds like a good little app, too bad that majority of waiters/waitresses we encountered are so bad at math that people have to come out with such utilities.

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Daniel says:
August 13, 2008 @ 17:51

Yeah, it’s impossible to get them to do the math for you. And it becomes even more complicated if people shared an appetizer or something.

Strangely enough when we were in Canada waiters would ALWAYS ask if we want to have the check split or we want a single check.

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Daniel says:
August 13, 2008 @ 17:51

Oh yeah, and the next test probably will be this Saturday and hopefully with a fully working version already.

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I installed an iPhone specific theme for the blog. Developers at Content Robot provided a good starting point. I made several modification to it to work better with our particular blog. Now everyone opening the blog with an iPhone will automatically get this theme. It’s much more lightweight compared to our regular one, so that should make for faster loading times.

I guess it’s basically for Alena, Maruk and myself at the moment.

I was experimenting with certain things on Mac and came up with the above masterpiece.

That’s one of the things that I like about Mac — all the tools for all forms of creativity are readily available. I used a trial version of iStopMotion to tape it and iMovie to record and add sounds.

And the original inspiration came from David Pogue of New York Times. His family is much better at this cartoon stuff than I am.

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Alena says:
June 18, 2008 @ 14:33

I like Danya’s little video — the sound effects are the funniest part.

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When Google rolled out Street View some time last year they had only a handful of streets covered in Brooklyn. Mostly highways. When I decided to check it today I was slightly shocked to see majority of streets viewable.

The slightly shocking part was a discovery of an image of my car parked in front of our building. Kind of cool and scary at the same time.

I’m just going to post a screen shot of my car, but I also found my dad’s car parked near their old house. So I’m going to include a link to that straight in Google Maps.

Fun, eh? Now go find yourself.

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Lenchik says:
June 18, 2008 @ 00:04

this was a bit scary to me.
i checked it out. luckily they don’t have any street views of camp lejeune. otherwise i’d have to go and bitch and the command.
awesome tool for area recon and assesment though

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Daniel says:
June 18, 2008 @ 00:32

I guess we should have Google send one of their little photo-cars to Iraq or what not.

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