Opera Widgets Competition
Wednesday, 19. March 2008, 01:11:42
I received my goodie bag in the mail from Opera yesterday from Espen.
My submission was Trimet Transit Tracker, which is the first widget I have ever done. Thanks for the encouragement, Opera. It is definately beta quality, still strongly resembles the Hello World example. Nonetheless, I hope to teach myself a little Javascript so I can extract just the content I need from a web script. Really, all the credit goes to Trimet for making their Transit Tracker program. I simply iframe'd it, figureing it'd make it one step easier to look up departure and arrival times. For all you people living in New York, London, and Japan, I am really jealous that you have 24/7 transit and don't have to worry about missing a bus or train. The closest stop to my house comes at best every 45, and on Sundays every 90 minutes.
Ultimately, this widget will be really useful for quickly knowing what time to catch the bus in Portland, Oregon, USA.
Enough about what I did. Here's what was in the goodie bag:
Opera, You-Guys-Are-Amazing!
My submission was Trimet Transit Tracker, which is the first widget I have ever done. Thanks for the encouragement, Opera. It is definately beta quality, still strongly resembles the Hello World example. Nonetheless, I hope to teach myself a little Javascript so I can extract just the content I need from a web script. Really, all the credit goes to Trimet for making their Transit Tracker program. I simply iframe'd it, figureing it'd make it one step easier to look up departure and arrival times. For all you people living in New York, London, and Japan, I am really jealous that you have 24/7 transit and don't have to worry about missing a bus or train. The closest stop to my house comes at best every 45, and on Sundays every 90 minutes.
Ultimately, this widget will be really useful for quickly knowing what time to catch the bus in Portland, Oregon, USA.
Enough about what I did. Here's what was in the goodie bag:
- 2 red Opera pens
- Black Opera + Widgets t-shirt (similar design to the koozies at SXSW)
- browse me shirt (from the Rock Opera party back in October)
- Opera lanyard
- Hand signed note from Espen (these notes really mean a lot to me because it lets me know that cool humans work at Opera, and that the magic of Opera isn't just done by robots or monkeys)
Opera, You-Guys-Are-Amazing!
Hello, thanks for your transit tracker widget. I work for Trimet and was forwarded information about the widget several times today. I think you may be interested in this site:
http://developer.trimet.org
and a related page someone made to display transit tracker on an iphone which may also be interesting to you.
http://trimet.onmyiphone.net
Feel free to send questions to labs at trimet.org
By anonymous user, # 20. March 2008, 20:54:54
What is TriMet's policy on me using their data and publishing this widget?
By IceArdor, # 27. March 2008, 09:02:37