{"id":30,"date":"2005-02-17T01:41:40","date_gmt":"2005-02-17T06:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2005-02-17T01:41:40","modified_gmt":"2005-02-17T06:41:40","slug":"development-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/30\/development-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Development Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russ posted<\/a> about a pretty cool Flash Lite application that was developed: a way<\/a> to look at the NYC traffic cameras using your phone. It’s an extremely cool app – if I lived in New York, I’d buy Flash Lite just to be able to use that application. One thing that Russ mentioned was the development time for the project: 20 hours of development time, when something in Java would have been way larger.<\/p>\n

Well, I’m a Python man, not a Flash man, so I can’t get much out of this yet. However, I do think it’s a cool use case: so I did a little research, found out where the data that the Flash app uses was coming from, and did a little hacking. The result? TrafficCam version 0.1<\/a>, in Python. This little app took me 45 minutes to develop a fully functional prototype: this included taking the HTML from the NY Transportation site, building it into a Python file, creating a user interface, and downloading and displaying the image in the built in phone image viewer.<\/p>\n

Not only did I do all this in 45 minutes, I did it without even having a phone to test with. Passing it off to the owner of a 6600 and a 6630, both say it works just fine, as is. <\/p>\n

(Note that I think it probably doesn’t, but in ways that aren’t visible: There has been no testing done yet.)<\/p>\n

So, although Flash is great for pretty apps – the Python app is *nothing* like the Flash app, which is a great user interface and something that’s really fun to use, even in a browser – but Python can be really great for *quick* apps, especially on the phone.<\/p>\n

Update<\/b>: With another 35 minutes of work, I now have fully functioning tabbed lists, one for each borough. So, with a total of less than an hour and a half of development, I have an application which allows you to download any of the traffic cam images and view them on your phone. It’s no flash, but I call that pretty damn impressive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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