MpgGenie.com on RichCommerce.fr

MpgGenie.com was featured on the RichCommerce.fr site. I wish I could read French to find out what they said about the site!

Update to MpgGenie.com

Made some updates to MpgGenie.com. The individual vehicle flex application now shows a bar chart to compare yearly commuting costs.

TORO Bulcher Pre-Race Recon

Pre-Race recon for the last race of the 2007-2008 TORO motorcycle racing season.
http://www.race-toro.org/race-recon/2007-2008/706-bulcher/

MpgGenie.com - vehicle mpg rating flex app

Have some new updates to MpgGenie.com. You can now view an Adobe Flex application that dynamically shows commuting costs on the individual vehicle pages. Here is the page for the Toyota Prius Hybrid-Electric car.

Pricing Configurator

The pricing model for the company I work for is very complex. Even the sales people have a difficult time giving customers accurate pricing. I put together a pricing configurator in Flex for the sales force and customers to easily configure their products and view accurate pricing. The application is driven off a master pricing xml file and is flexible to handle many different pricing options.

MpgGenie.com

The cost of fuel is getting really bad! I am beginning to wonder if I would actually save money by trading in my old gas guzzling 1996 Explorer with the V8 for a more economical new car. If gas prices get high enough the fuel savings would be enough to make the payments on a new car. So, to make the comparison easy I created a flex app to do all the calculations for me. I thought other people might find it useful so I made a site for the application (http://www.MpgGenie.com). The database includes over 1000 2008 model vehicles with detailed fuel efficiency data to compare.

www.MpgGenie.com

If I were to get a Toyota Prius and gas goes over $4/gallon, the savings in fuel each month would pay for the new car payments! It is getting very tempting…….

TORO Pre-race recon - Bells, TX

For the 2007-2008 TORO race series we are creating multi-media pre-race recons for our members. This will feature images served from flickr, helmet cam footage from youtube, and geo located images on a google map at various points on the race track. Here is the 1st TORO pre-race recon for race #701 Bells, TX (11/18/07).

Flex Real Time Monitoring App

I have been working on a real-time monitoring application in Flex. It connects to a server through a socket connection and receives 1 second readings of various types and plots them on graphs. The application is under 500k and the 1 second readings are very small. Flex is a perfect platform for this type of application.

MT Bike Flex App

The mt bike flex trail map is finally live! There are currently 7 trails listed. We should be able to add more soon. Most of the trails have dried up now. The trails around Grapevine are still under water though. I have the process to add new trails down now. It is not a quick or easy process but at least it is a process that works!

http://www.txtracks.com/mt-bike-trails-map.cfm

Summer is here!

The trails are starting to dry out! What a crazy spring we have had. Finally we are able to get out and ride some trails. Rode Sister Grove, Oak Cliff Nature Preserve, and Beavers Bend recently. Should have the GPS map, pics and helmet cam video up on the site soon. Once I get a few more tracks added I will make the Mt Bike Trail app live.