Category Archives for iRail
iRail.be – The NMBS/SNCB iPhone route planner
Let us help inform, please?
Dear NMBS. I’m probably one of the few of your customers who does not blame you for the delays yesterday. There have been extreme conditions, which only happen one or two weeks a year, and dealing with several events, such as power-shortage and derailment due to mud, are not always as easy as some may proclaim. I do however blame you for the lack of information you provided during this chaos.
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iRail news
Been playing around with nginx vs Apache for iRail. The bottle neck still is the NMBS site (and I’m truly sorry for DoSing you, dearest NMBS. I had to benchmark), but nginx seems to win just slightly over Apache. Maybe … Continue reading
iRail Trac
iRail project page is located at project.irail.be. Also, biggest issue (station bug) seems to have been fixed in the API (mobile site soon!). Thanks Pieter Colpaert.
Creating an open transport API
This is also posted on the mailing list of iRail.be and my blog. It’s an update of what we’re doing and what we’re trying to achieve with the project. Yeri Tiete started almost 2 years ago with only one goal … Continue reading
