Hug a developer

I hear ya. I feel the pain. Really.

In my case, I was working crazy for CES (deadline = Jan. 7, 08) since around Thanksgiving.
I had no single day off from the time project started. No Thanksgiving, Christmas or New year.
On Dec. 27, I was told to start over the entire code because the architecture needed to be completely re-written. I lost my sanity.
(Even after CES, I was still working on weekends for more trade shows… I didn’t even had a chance to visit any of the fun shows. What kind of a sweat shop I am working at?)

Google announced API for LBS on Mobile

Google launched the Gears Geolocation API for mobile on last week on their official Goolge code blog, and Mobile Blog, with a screenshot of a sample mobile site, Rummble and video demo of lastminute.com of UK.

On mobile devices with Gears installed, Javascript functions grab the cell-ID of nearby cell towers or GPS (if either is available) to improve the postion fix.

The two methods:
getCurrentPosition() makes a single, one-off attempt to get a position fix.
watchPosition() watches the user’s position over time, and updates the position changes.

Also,
lastPosition get an approximate position fix

The bad news is that API is available on Internet Explorer, Firefox and IE Mobile (selected devices only – incl. Samsung Blackjack II, HTC Touch Dual, TyTN, Palm Treo750 etc.) and will be available on Android. I was going to try it with S60, until I read the line on the announcement.

The good news is that they are currently implementing the editor’s draft of the W3C Geolocation specification with Microsoft and Mozilla guys.