got started on making the changes for the database
updated unit test for DbHelper
Merge pull request #9 from shankari/cordova-crossplatform

Add in support for the ionic javascript platform
merge with upstream
Merge pull request #10 from gaukes/cordova-switch

Adding an initial implementation of reading data from the database
Change the ios side to use TEXT instead of a BLOB to store the trip sections

This allows us to bypass the stupid sqlite plugin implementation of the blob
handling, which appears to encode the field as base64, but the resulting base64
is not decodable by the webkit btoa function.