{"id":121,"date":"2009-01-02T22:17:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T06:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jaillon.com\/blog\/?p=121"},"modified":"2014-04-29T09:33:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T16:33:57","slug":"twiam-thats-where-i-am-or-gps-meets-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jaillon.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/02\/twiam-thats-where-i-am-or-gps-meets-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"TWIAM &quot;That&#8217;s Where I AM&quot; or GPS meets Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I worked on specifying an application that would posts user-locations to Twitter while driving from point A to point B. The application would be a good fit for the iPhone as the phone has internet capability, a GPS and a nice SDK.<\/p>\n<p>I had initially planned to develop the application as a side project since it is pretty lightweight and could be a way to get familiar with the iPhone SDK.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jaillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/suitcases-913-1634.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-522\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jaillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/suitcases-913-1634-1024x1024.png?resize=720%2C720\" alt=\"Bon voyage\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jaillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/suitcases-913-1634.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jaillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/suitcases-913-1634.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jaillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/suitcases-913-1634.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jaillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/suitcases-913-1634.png?resize=160%2C160&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jaillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/suitcases-913-1634.png?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jaillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/suitcases-913-1634.png?w=3000&amp;ssl=1 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSince -for various reasons- I haven&#8217;t started working on it yet, I have decided to share the idea on this blog. The document below explains the concept, shows an example and describes the simple GUI of the application.<\/p>\n<p>If you feel like coding it, please be my guest! I you want to build another application using a similar concept, I&#8217;d be very happy to hear about your project.<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year again!<\/p>\n<p>The functional specs are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaillon.com\/blog\/Documents\/twiam-01.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had initially planned to develop the application as a side project since it is pretty lightweight and could be a way to get familiar with the iPhone SDK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,22],"tags":[26,60,62],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-iphone","category-twitter","tag-app","tag-iphone","tag-twitter","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jaillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/suitcases-913-1634.png?fit=3000%2C3000&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}