iRail 3.0 (Mobile Vikings)
- Sponsor: Mobile Vikings (@mobilevikings)
- App: iRail 3.0
- Students:
- Hannes Van De Vreken (@hannesvdvreken – blogposts)
- Koen De Groote (@koen027 – blogposts)
- Lennart Martens (@LennartMart – blogposts)
- Jens Segers (@jenssegers)
Hannes, Jens, Lennart, Koen
“iRail 3.0 is an ambitious project to update the existing iRail application. It’s a stable application used daily by more than 5000 users. Our goal is to bring the app to the next level. Beyond today’s basic application, we work to offer integration with Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and Vikingspots.
To do this, we’re working on making an identity manager for iRail, which will be the behind-the-scenes app that links you to these services. You’ll be able to use any of these services to let people know what you’re doing, where you’re going and how late your train is going to be. And if you have to wait for your train to arrive, you’ll be able to look up interesting spots near your location.
To do this, we’re implementing our own authentication server in PHP, building on the Oauth2 specification. Oauth2 is currently still a draft (version 28 at the time of writing) and finding existing implementations is proving to be very hard. Most are outdated or incomplete.”