Sliced Software

About

Thomas Mango writes software, has a bulldog, listens to Long Island Hardcore music and eats sandwiches.

He is currently working on Firefly, The Check-in Service for Twitter and Limited Pressing, An Online Store Community.

An update about the LIRR app

My custom, iPhone optimized webapp for interfacing with the LIRR scheduling system has been offline for a few weeks following a complete overhaul of the MTA’s LIRR scheduling software.

Although their new scheduling system looks similar to the old site, it seems to be a complete rewrite. Unfortunately, this totally broke my app. I worked hard rewriting my parsing system to interface with the new site and I actually finished about half of it before I ran into a show stopping problem. I’d rather not say what the exact problem I ran into is, but I will say that I am still attempting to work around the issue.

For now (long overdue, I know), I replaced my app with a message concerning the breaking of the app as well as a link out to the official MTA site.

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