Trip reports rock! I love experiencing epic conditions, even when I’m sitting in the office. The stories are great and pictures are always gorgeous. Most of the time, however, I have no idea where the TR took place. That’s why I love seeing GPS tracking.

I got heavily pinned down in the three20 UI kit over the last few days. With the release of the Facebook 3.0 app, Joe updated numerous UI tools. They’re exactly what I’m looking for, but being new to the design schemes of the iPhone SDK, I took some time to better understand the data organization.

I’ve reimplemented the forum list and thread listing page to handle the new TTTableViewController. The app looks visually identical to the previous version, but everything is much smoother. It looks like regex is very reliable on the iPhone. All new screen scraping code will implement the RegexKit framework instead of the ugly NSScanner code.

This week I hope to finish the load more button on the thread listings page and implement per-page sectioning of posting threads. Anyone follow that?

If you’d like to follow the app’s progress and see screenshots as it comes together, follow PowShot over on Twitter.

I completed the custom table cells for individual posts and replies in the forums. There are a few redraw issues to fix. Unforunately, three20’s custom table doesn’t support its TTStyledTextLabel. When the HTML is rendered, the standard height calculations don’t work. Resizing custom cells should be available soon, as well as asynchronous images.

As promised earlier, here’s a screenshot.

I’ve been developing my first iPhone app for the last 1 1/2 months. The app fills a sorely needed space in the skiing community and while the website will remain nameless, if you happened to stumble here, you know exactly what site I’m talking about.