Comments on: Magic Bus

By: Kyle Mulka

Kyle Mulka — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:57:55 +0000

I’ll let you know (via this post) as soon as we can knock done a semi-final version of the public XML stream. Some of the data (like speed) they don’t want public.

By: Gerry

Gerry — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:41:01 +0000

This magic bus thing is amazing. You should stop at nothing to getting it legit. I’m tempted to make a Konfabulator widget out of it. Well done indeed.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:11:34 +0000

Hey there, I’m sorry you had to take down Magic Bus, I thought it was amazing. When I saw the real bus pass on the street then saw the little dot go by at the same time, I got a little rush, I’m not going to lie haha.

My friends and I loved that project, it really did save us lots of time in the past two days! Well, please keep me updated if you can ever get it up again.

Thanks! Brian

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 05:03:45 +0000

Facebook, Kyle Mulka, November 23, 2005:
I searched through the facebook for php and mysql people and found you. I’d love to hear what you are working on as I am interested in web development as well…

Facebook, Mike Bommarito, November 23, 2005:
…I’ve got a side-project on a pubtrans GMap routing site for Ann Arbor, but until I’ve got a better dataset, that’s pretty much on hold…

No response from Kyle.

I’m really glad to have met you and talked about this project before you ripped it off without ever responding. Good stuff, dude, real integrity.

If you’d actually ever responded to the conversation you began, you might be interested to know that I already have the majority of a graph with weighted edges representing the times between stops as well as node values calculated real-time to represent the time until the next bus would arrive on schedule. From there, as I’m sure you should know, a little tweaking of Dijsktra’s can do the rest.

Anyway, glad to see that your under-the-table and uncommunicative behavior has yielded such a fully-featured service. Keep up the good work, and I hope we actually get to meet on a little better terms some day. If you really want to talk code, give Israel a ring and he’ll set something up.