Jehiah Czebotar http://jehiah.cz HTML, CSS, Javascript and those other web things all mixed together Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:34:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 en 210680http://www.feedburner.comThis is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. How to Profile Python Code http://jehiah.cz/archive/profiling-in-google-app-engine http://jehiah.cz/archive/profiling-in-google-app-engine#comments Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:34:40 +0000 Jehiah All Python Web http://jehiah.cz/archive/profiling-in-google-app-engine http://jehiah.cz/archive/profiling-in-google-app-engine/feed/ Way back in February . . . http://jehiah.cz/archive/one-step-further http://jehiah.cz/archive/one-step-further#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:09:29 +0000 Jehiah All Programming mobile Trains iPhone http://jehiah.cz/archive/one-step-further
  • list of the next trains for today whatever day that may be
  • to show only the specific schedules for a trip between two stations
  • plainly labeled "peak" and "offpeak" trains
  • easy readable URLs to remember or bookmark
  • simple pages (that also worked well on mobile devices)
  • no ads
    • That was pretty much it, and in March 08 I launched thenexttrain.com with LIRR Schedules. I met my goal of showing just the next few trains. I decided to show just a few minutes into the past, enough to see if you just missed a train or to see if it's late, and just a few hours into the future to see what is coming. If you check at 1pm you see the trains from 12:45pm to 6pm. No need to figure out if you should look at the holiday schedule, or of you are on the old or new schedule or any of that. The urls are about as clear as it gets
    http://thenexttrain.com/at/lirr/new-hyde-park/
    http://thenexttrain.com/at/lirr/penn-station/to/new-hyde-park/
    If you can't understand from those urls what the page contains, well... you might be beyond hope. As for no ads, there are none. There are no ads. I am continually amazed at how anyone can find the train schedules and navigate pages that look like this So needless to say, I met my goals. I decided not to stop there (with LIRR schedules) I got excited and by July I was re-publishing schedules for LIRR, Path, Caltrain, BART, SEPTA, and MARC trains. And now I've taken it one step further. Now schedules for almost all of those agencies are available as an application for offline use on the iPhone and iPod touch. They are for sale in the iTunes App Store. In addition I am releasing schedules for VRE, UTA and MBTA with associated applications, bringing the total number of agencies covered to 9. That equates to listings for over 35 thousand departures daily from 591 different stations. As commuter trains become more popular and their ridership increases, their schedules should also increase in frequency, and that is good (not only for the environment, but also for ease of travel). It's my hope that easy access to train schedules will help ridership to grow, and in turn help bring that change about. I'm not the only bringing this change about. Some other great applications are out there for the iPhone too!
    iPhone + theNextTrain = Schedules in your Pocket
    ]]>     http://jehiah.cz/archive/one-step-further/feed/     All in an alt tag http://jehiah.cz/archive/how-to-read-xkcd http://jehiah.cz/archive/how-to-read-xkcd#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:18:22 +0000 Jehiah All HTML http://jehiah.cz/archive/how-to-read-xkcd xkcd comics and i was like "What!?!?" So now you know, hover over the xkcd comic images and read the alt text. It'll be a whole new comic.]]> http://jehiah.cz/archive/how-to-read-xkcd/feed/ A Long List of Distributed Filesystems http://jehiah.cz/archive/distributed-filesystems http://jehiah.cz/archive/distributed-filesystems#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:42:29 +0000 Jehiah All SysAdmin Programming filesystems http://jehiah.cz/archive/distributed-filesystems long list of distributed filesystems that I put together while looking for one that fit my needs.]]> http://jehiah.cz/archive/distributed-filesystems/feed/ A Step Forward in Funding Passenger Rail http://jehiah.cz/archive/hr6003 http://jehiah.cz/archive/hr6003#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:01:43 +0000 Jehiah All SoapBox Trains Energy http://jehiah.cz/archive/hr6003 HR 6003 is a bill that will probably reach the floor of the US House of Representatives this week, and if you care about rail transportation, it's important that you pay attention. This bill (Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008), while perfect by no means, is an important step forward in properly funding domestic rail systems in the United States. For many years 'transportation' has meant 'roads' to the government, and Amtrak has had to beg for funding every year. This bill allocates funding for the next 5 years, and helps pay down their debt, and helps resolve years of neglect due to lack of funding This bill will help amtrak improve it's infrastructure, but it also does more than that. It gives an opening to a dialog about high speed rail along the north east corridor (Washington DC to NY to Boston), and other areas by specifically requesting proposals, and allocating money to investigate them. While still paltry compared to the amount of funding we put into other public transportation systems (aka roads) this helps reverse a bad trend. For example Maryland (along with the federal government) is spending 600 million to build 10 miles of express lanes. 10 pitiful miles which will do nothing to help traffic because they are only ten miles. That is about equivalent to half of what Amtrak gets every year to maintain their operations across the entire united states, and this bill for the first time increases Amtrak's funding by a significant share. Please call your representative and ask them to support house resolution 6003. Only 44 representatives have signed up to sponsor the bill so far. It needs more support than that. For more detail on what HR6003 proposes, the National Association of Railroad Passengers has a good review. Or you could just read the complete text]]> http://jehiah.cz/archive/hr6003/feed/