Month: February 2013

Having finished the NWR update, see the last post for details. I decided to dive head long into another little project that design to get me to explore object orientate programming in PHP and using JQuery mobile to make a small mobile site for my instruction and coaching website Snowdonia Mountain Guides.

I manage to find some code that showed a basic MVC development pattern for a similar thing to what I want and over the last few nights I have been hacking it to peices to link to my own database rather than the one they supplied with the tutorial. A few hairs later and I seem to have grasped the basics.

A little tinkering with the code to make it output how I want it too and then a little more frustration as the links seemed to have a mind of their own and what do you know my own mobile website. Of course the plan is to develop a mobile logging facility for iCoach eventually but baby steps have brought me here. A little older and a little wiser!

Hopefully it will load quicker for mobile users than the main site, although to find out more about the course you are redirected back to the main site.

This week I have been working on a major update to the iPhone and Andriod north wales rock guidebook app. With a growing market of users having greater storage and screen resolution. We have decided to update nearly all the topos at a greater resolution, nearly double to be precise. This has meant that I have also gone through the database one more time and tried to fiull in areas that were not yet covered.

These new areas and additional routes include:

Upper Tier Tremadog – 7 routes, 1 topo
Pant If an Tremadog – 11 routes, 2 topos.
The Gravestones, Llnaberis Pass – 6 routes, 1 topo.
Scimitar Ridge, Llanberis Pass- 4 routes, 1 topo.
Craig Dorys – 6 routes, 3 topos.
Idwal Slabs – 2 new topos.
North Stack Wall, Goagrth – 7 routes, 1 topi.
Castell Helen – 2 routes added.
Easter Island Gully – 3 routes added.

This should get us well on the way to over 700 routes covered in the app along with hires colour topos for almost all the venues. There are a few remaining topos that will need updating at some point but they have tended to be of single pitch venues where the resolution was more than adequate for the purpose of the guide.

You can find out more about the North Wales Rock App at theSend. They also have a North Wales Limestone App in the pipeline as well as some other areas. There are links on the right side bar to both the Apple App store and the Google Play where you can purchase these great apps for £5.99.

I have also been putting the finnishing touches to a Effective Coaching: The Coaching Process for Climbing Instructors, which is due out next month on iPad and Kindle.