Today I made my Meetup Search available on the BlackBerry App World. It is really rough right now and I am very eager to try it out on the BlackBerry PlayBook. And why do I say I am “eager”, well it is because I will be getting a free PlayBook! After going through the struggles of trying to create an application and getting the software, I got my app in before the deadline and now it is signed and ready for download. And because it was in before the deadline and accepted, I qualified for the free PlayBook offer. Rumors has it, that they will be shipping tomorrow, which would be awesome!
Where do I go from here? Well, I would like to clean up the Meetup Search:
- Adjust item layouts and fonts to make sure they work well on the device
- Add GPS location search option : get the GPS latitude and longitude location and use that instead of zip. “Meetups near me”
- Add City Upcoming Events : The City Meetup pages is a nice feature that shows upcoming events, this might be useful
- Add Map of Meetups search option : show a map and have Meetups pop up on the map based on search options
I will probably try to add as many search possibilities as possible from the Meetup API and try to keep it up to date. After that, I need to get OAuth working and start developing the Meetup user and Organizer applications. In the mean time, I still have a movie to finish editing.
Dean has been playing around with programming ever since his family got an IBM PC back in the early 80's. Things have changed since BASICA and Dean has dabbled in HTML, JavaScript, Action Script, Flex, Flash, PHP, C#, C++, J2ME and SQL. On this site Dean likes to share his adventures in coding. And since programming isn't enough of a time killer, Dean has also picked up the hobby of short film creation.
