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Sun Oct 05 15:44:35 2014 GMT: Chichester - West Wittering Walk
Mon Sep 29 18:10:51 2014 GMT: Wendover Walk
Sun Sep 28 16:12:37 2014 GMT: HikingMaps 0.6
HikingMaps has now reached version 0.6, mainly just after cleaning up the user interface. This version should now also properly work on desktop Firefox - basically, I just had to make sure to not go down the MozActivity route for file handling there, but just use the browser-based file handling support.
BTW, what seems to be a bit annoying in the Firefox Marketplace is that it lists popular apps first - this means that people will, of course, first try the more popular apps before trying less popular ones, making popular apps more popular... And there doesn't appear to be much that can be done to break that cycle.
Sun Sep 21 19:27:48 2014 GMT: Salzburg Holiday
Just returned from a week's holiday in Salzburg with perfect weather during the week. Managed to do a bit of walking on the Untersberg (see part 1 and part 2) and Schlenken/Schmittenstein.
Sun Sep 14 15:47:23 2014 GMT: Lack of Marketplace App Updates on ZTE Open C
Some time ago I was wondering why I never got any updated of applications installed from the Firefox Marketplace (including my own HikingMaps application) and raised in on Mozilla's support forum here (which is also tracked in this bugzilla entry).
It looks like ZTE have replaced the standard update mechanism with their own update tool. However, that update tool only appears to care about system updates, resulting in Marketplace apps to not be updated at all.
Investigating the issue in a bit more detail I have now written a small CheckUpdate app that should trigger a manual update check and at least on my phone this seems to have done the trick - I immediately got a notification about 7 updates being available. I am now just waiting for feedback to see if it solves the problem for others as well...
Tue Sep 09 05:23:48 2014 GMT: Haslemere to Guildford Walk
Went for a walk from Haslemere to Guildford on Saturday that turned out to be 39.4 km according to my phone app.
Sun Sep 07 16:50:30 2014 GMT: HikingMaps Updates
HikingMaps 0.4 got approved in the Firefox Marketplace within minutes today (actually at the same time as version 0.3 I submitted yesterday). This version is now much more conservative when calculating elevation gain/loss (due to jittery GPS data) and keeps track of min/max elevation. It's also the first version that's usable out of the box with a current version (i.e. 37) of Chrome/Chromium as Chromium now finally supports storing blobs in an IndexedDB database. So there is a good chance that the app can be used on other mobile platforms in the near future.
Sun Aug 31 17:51:10 2014 GMT: Box Hill and Haddenham
Sun Aug 31 13:02:28 2014 GMT: HikingMaps 0.2
Sun Aug 31 10:41:20 2014 GMT: Release early, release often
Sun Aug 31 10:38:12 2014 GMT: Cloud Storage with Firefox OS
Wed Aug 20 17:51:54 2014 GMT: HikingMaps Application for Firefox OS
