WindsurfBuddy - equipment advisor: it's going somewhere

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:51:00 +0100

Just to share the evolution of the windsurf calculator, that I renamed WindsurfBuddy as in the mean time another application with that name showed up in Google Play store (I hate this name...)

Here I show the activity used to advise on what equipment to take into the water. The images of the boards are from Fanatic and the sails are from North Sails. I'm using them just for developing and as such in the end the listed equipment will be different. They do look good.

I won't be pushing this changes into github as I have no rights on the images for the boards and sails. In the future I'll replace them with some generic drawings.

Inside each of the equipment frames it's possible to do a horizontal scroll to see more items. I don't know if that's confusing, as there is a vertical scroll within the central view (between the titlebar and the area for entering the windspeed) and then there is this horizontal scroll areas. My tests were quite ok, but I have to show it and let other people play with it.

The usage work flow is to, change the wind speed, select the type of board and fin that you want to use. The application will provide you with a small set of boards, sails and fins you can use.

I actually have some ideas of how to make this advisor more useful by letting the user customize the content (the list of equipment) but that will be for a future post.

Bye-bye Nokia!

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:15:00 +0100

Today I decided to give up on Nokia.

For a long time the image that Nokia painted of it self was a picture of internal fights, of too many managers fighting for control of small issues and of having no one at the helm. They lost their target of creating something great to focus on petty internal fights and divisions.

For quite a long time I waited for the phone from Nokia that would again rule the market, a phone with a good software stack and reliable hardware. But also a phone with good support for indie developers, a phone that you could play with and learn.

Nokia had the know how to do such phone but not the management courage to do it. Now it's all over.

Maemo, Meego were two software stack that might have provided a breath of new air into Nokia but will now just fade away. Samsung seams to be able to create a software stack out of thin air while Nokia.. oh well, you get the picture.

So today I trashed my Nokia phone, deleted my Ovi account, and moved on to greener pastures.

I deleted the account as I have no trust that my private information would be safe from a certain major Nokia parter that has a rather bad reputation when in come to privacy and respect for the costumer.

So long, and thanks for a broken heart...

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WindsurfBuddy - equipment advisor: it's going somewhere

Bye-bye Nokia!