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https://donp.org/wiki/
2026-04-30T11:37:20+00:00Don Park
https://donp.org/wiki/
https://donp.org/wiki/lib/tpl/donpdonp/images/favicon.icotext/html2024-01-31T04:08:25+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)icecondor:androidclient
https://donp.org/wiki/icecondor/androidclient?rev=1706674105&do=diff
Android client for IceCondor
Timeline
2008-Dec-08 release v20081208. pay attention to frequency changes. put version check into background thread.
2008-Sep-27 Transmitting UI button connects all the way through to the background process to instruct it to start and stop pushing updates to the IceCondor service.text/html2024-01-31T04:08:25+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)icecondor:api
https://donp.org/wiki/icecondor/api?rev=1706674105&do=diff
web/SVG version
<http://donpark.org/icecondor/doc/post.svg> (currently out of date)
<http://donpark.org/icecondor/doc/search.svg> (currently out of date)
Introduction
input format: HTTP get/post variables
output format: JSON
success/error reporting: HTTP response code
IDs/URIs
the id field in icecondor is a URI, with some standard URNs defined.text/html2024-01-31T04:08:25+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)icecondor:battery
https://donp.org/wiki/icecondor/battery?rev=1706674105&do=diff
3 minutes seems to be the magic number. With 3 minute GPS updates, i do not notice a battery life difference than having icecondor turned off.text/html2024-01-31T04:08:25+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)icecondor:benchmarks-20081129
https://donp.org/wiki/icecondor/benchmarks-20081129?rev=1706674105&do=diff
apachebench
Rails 2.1 + postgres-pr 0.4
$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-08 patchlevel 286) [i686-linux]
With no other load, push 15 updates.
$ ./apachebench 15
Requests per second: 16.41 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 60.955 [ms] (mean)
Generating a load of 10 sequential hits on the front page.text/html2024-01-31T04:08:25+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)icecondor:benchmarks
https://donp.org/wiki/icecondor/benchmarks?rev=1706674105&do=diff
apachebench
Benchmark Runs
benchmarks-20081129text/html2024-01-31T04:08:25+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)icecondor:business
https://donp.org/wiki/icecondor/business?rev=1706674105&do=diff
<http://www.myfaithincrisis.com/lamisil.html> buy cheap lamisil online wiz <http://www.myfaithincrisis.com/acomplia.html> acomplia 518856 <http://www.atodalengua.com/colchicine.html> buy colchicine =Dtext/html2024-01-31T04:08:25+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)icecondor:graphics
https://donp.org/wiki/icecondor/graphics?rev=1706674105&do=diff
Graphics
icons
status bar icon has numerous status
* Idle, waiting for the next event
* Processing a GPS update (probably too fast to notify for)
* Transmitting location to server
* Polling RSS feed
twitter account
* background graphic <http://flickr.com/photos/kahtava/89883076/>text/html2024-01-31T04:08:25+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)icecondor:location
https://donp.org/wiki/icecondor/location?rev=1706674105&do=diff
What is a location.
use the W3 spec for location
<http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html>
Latitude
Longtitude
Altitude
Accuracy
AltitudeAccuracy
Heading
Velocity
Timestamp
What does it mean for an object to be at a location?
Given the frequency of updates, and the accuracy of the reading, an object exists in a probability polygon. A lat/long may put the person in the vicinity of their home. An error estimate of at least 20 feet means the person could be anywhere in the ho…text/html2024-01-31T04:08:25+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)icecondor:news
https://donp.org/wiki/icecondor/news?rev=1706674105&do=diff
2008-11-20 <http://donpark.org/blog/2008/11/18/icecondor-v20081120> Push-only client
2008-10-20 <http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Update_Your_Location_Automatically_on_Android>
2008-10-3 <http://siliconflorist.com/2008/10/03/six-portland-mobile-app-developers-and-consultants-to-watch/>text/html2024-01-31T04:08:25+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)icecondor:pigeon
https://donp.org/wiki/icecondor/pigeon?rev=1706674105&do=diff
Pigeon is the name of the service/background task in the android client.
InBound messages:
once:
onCreate()
onStart()
onBind()
repeating:
notification_status_update - every 30 second heartbeat timer
onLocationChanged() - GPS notifications from android, sent whenever with a frequency hint from the app.text/html2024-01-31T04:08:25+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)icecondor:roadmap
https://donp.org/wiki/icecondor/roadmap?rev=1706674105&do=diff
Roadmap
1st half February 2009:
* Finish OAUTH (DONE)
2nd half February 2009:
* Android Market Paid App (DONE)
* Amazon FPS integration on the server (DELAYED)
* free/lite version in the market (DONE)
1st half March 2009:
* Documentation - add an RSS feed (DONE)text/html2024-01-31T04:08:25+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)icecondor:urls
https://donp.org/wiki/icecondor/urls?rev=1706674105&do=diff
HTML client. Dashboard/front page
<http://icecondor.com/>
Show a default location
<http://icecondor.com/><area name>
Show a given city, etc.text/html2024-01-31T04:08:25+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)icecondor:usecases
https://donp.org/wiki/icecondor/usecases?rev=1706674105&do=diff
Say where I am
give a location.
Where is bob
give a url for bob, get back the latest track point for bob.
Is there anything near me
give a starting location and a set of filters, get a list of track points back.
Where is caseorganic?
brampitoyo and I were outside of Jive for the pdx-refresh event. We found her bicycle. She tweeted to be in one of two places both within a block of Jive (half-and-half or ace hotel). She was at neither. She had to be close though. A continuous location app w…