MoosTrax for iPhone - Looking for testers

I just made a very basic MoosTrax location updater for the iPhone. Currently it just sends your location to MoosTrax when you press the Update Now button. I will be adding push notifications soon so that when someone pulls up the Live Tracking page on the MoosTrax website, you will receive a notification on your iPhone requesting you to update your location. That is really all I can do for now, as background applications are still not permitted....

August 7, 2009 · Chris Moos

Palm Pre Support for MoosTrax

I am currently working on adding MoosTrax for the Palm Pre. Is there anyone out there that is interested in this? Let me know!

August 7, 2009 · Chris Moos

Apple Push Notification Library for Haskell

I have been working with Apple’s Push Notification service recently and decided to make a library to send notifications with Haskell. It is very simple and has a few helpers to make notifications with an alert, sound, etc,. ApplePush Hackage ApplePush Documentation When using the library, you must use an SSL tunnel, because Haskell’s SSL support is incomplete. I use stunnel4, which works great, and offloads the SSL processing as well....

July 13, 2009 · Chris Moos

Sziasztok Magyarok!

Három hét és ottleszek Magyorarszágon. Munkát keresek szamitástechnikai területen (szoftverfejlesztö, programazó). Email címem: chris@tech9computers.com

July 5, 2009 · Chris Moos

MoosTrax, iPhone, and Push Notifications

I recently traded my T-Mobile G1, with Android, for an iPhone 3G. I am hoping to get MoosTrax running on the iPhone, but unfortunately, even with push notifications, it might not be the same as the BlackBerry and Android versions. Here are some reasons why. No automatic location updates The iPhone OS does not allow applications to run in the background, which means MoosTrax cannot check your location and send it to the server at a fixed interval....

July 3, 2009 · Chris Moos

Haskell AIM Client - a cool proof of concept

Haskell has been my favorite programming language in the past month, and for good reason. Its (purely) functional and has strong, static typing. The language feels more graceful to me, where design and function are key. It is a joy to program in and I would love to keep exploring it. On my path to learning a new language, I usually try to implement something to get some real-world experience. In this instance, I have chosen to implement an Open AIM client....

May 26, 2009 · Chris Moos

10 things I like about the T-Mobile G1 (and Android)

I picked up a T-Mobile G1 in December after my BlackBerry 8800 stopped charging (broken USB connector). After using it for the last ~6 months, I have to say that its one of the best phones I’ve owned. Disclaimer: This isn’t a “why the G1 is better than an (iphone, blackberry, etc,.)” post, its just some things I really like about the G1. This list is in no particular order, FYI....

May 25, 2009 · Chris Moos

Looking for work

Right now I’m currently looking for a new project to work on, if anyone is interested in recruiting my services, please contact me at xoclipse@cox.net. I would prefer to work on web, mobile, or desktop applications. I have experience with most major web frameworks (Pylons/Django, Rails). I have written quite a few mobile applications for various platforms (J2ME, iPhone, Android, BlackBerry). I’ve written desktop applications for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux....

May 4, 2009 · Chris Moos

MyLocation for Android

I just made a simple Android app, using the new Android 1.5 SDK (Cupcake), that will show your current location using GPS or Wireless Networks. For GPS, you can also see number of satellites, as well as fix time. There will be an update soon to show more information about the satellites. Check out the screenshots:

April 30, 2009 · Chris Moos

MoosTrax Site Redesign Launched. Open Registrations.

You can view the new MoosTrax site at http://www.moostrax.com. Registrations are now open so anyone can signup. A new BlackBerry client version has been released, version 0.3.3. Also, existing Storm users that are experiencing update problems should raise their accuracy to 200 meters and see if that fixes the problem.

March 18, 2009 · Chris Moos