I’m actually trying to avoid a rant here.  Just outlining my thoughts from the past couple of days.  Laura and I had a short break [...]]]> It’s been a while since I’ve written a propper blog post.  All this twitter etc means my rants are trickled out over a long time rather than in one big lump.

I’m actually trying to avoid a rant here.  Just outlining my thoughts from the past couple of days.  Laura and I had a short break in the lakes to go geocaching, and we racked up a total of 21 caches, which was awesome.  We were using my own geocaching application on my android phone.  We’re being guinnea pigs for it, and I even wrote a quick change at the hotel on the morning of the 2nd day.

It occurs to me, that even with testing, for phone apps which use GPS and other tech which is increasingly available in smart phones, you can’t find all the issues.  It’s only when we were out and about (and on previous occasions) were we able to spot things which made life easier.

I’m pleased to say that the core functionality is there.  I just need to implement the built in navigation elements (I’m using an external one at present) and fully implement preferences and a couple of other bits of polish and I can release it in the Android Market.

I wonder if when developing these sorts of things for work, which I am begining to be doing, whether they’d be happy for me to tramp about the hills in order to test fully what we’re developing.  Probably not, but i reckon there’s little other way you’re able to properly test this sort of location and mobile net based work.

All in all, Laura and I had a very restful time, even if we were walking up hills and dales.