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Hi, I’ve added two javascript projects to my gitweb. One being an enso-like interface by Andreas Schruderer, and another is a radial menu interface by Michaeljohn Clement. One is great for mouse interactions, and the other great for keyboard. :) I am looking forward to fully integrating these into a backend.

http://braydon.com

I’m looking for people to collaborate with on Sparrow. Please take a look at the repository and screencasts to get an idea of what it’s goals are. There is also a rough FAQ in there too. If you do any hacking on Sparrow, I’d love to see your ideas. Please send me an email (courier@braydon.com) if your interested, and or have done some hacking. There is lots of work that needs to be done before it’s ready. But it’s pretty exciting working on something new. http://braydon.com

I’ve finally got a chance to work on Sparrow after a week of working on other things. After working with Django for a bit I have realized a few things. I’ve also done some research into CouchDB and I feel that it will be a good fit as a storage system for Sparrow, there still will be support for relational databases, however some of the flexibility of CouchDB seems to fit in with the relaxed nature of Sparrow. I’ve also come to realize that strictly path arguments being only non-keyword can be somewhat limiting. Thus I have also started a new branch for integrating Werkzeug as an http framework, in addition to CherryPy. Both will move forward and we will see where things go. I’ve also added a branch for the great JS hacking that Michaeljohn Clement has been doing for the radial menu, this also includes improving the menu interface to return JSON rather than an HTML representation of the menu.

Keep in mind these are in development and will likely not run yet. It’s most important to have it be public so that others can also start working on it too, and to also know what areas I am focusing on.

Browse the Sparrow Repository here: http://braydon.com/

One of the goals behind Sparrow is to change the workflow of a designer for a website to be more like a designer’s process and role in designing a book. They are part of the process until the end, rather than mainly only part of the process at the beginning. However unlike a book, a website is never finished. Thus the role of a designer is an ongoing relationship, which is good for the designer and good for the website. The more and faster a designer can design each page the better, and faster the information the website can be read, and the wider audience it can reach.

Check out the Sparrow Screencast. Here is the Repo for it where you can grab the source files. If you have troubles viewing the previous screencast download the mpg from the repository.
And also the take a look at the Sparrow Git Repository

To download sparrow:
$git clone http://braydon.com/sparrow

Andreas Schuderer has done some great work on demonstration for a Scratchpad for Enso:
http://www.schuderer.net/experiments.shtml#ensoid

I have just added sparrow to my gitweb at http://braydon.com. You can download it by using git.
$ git clone http://braydon.com/sparrow

If you’re looking for
http://braydon.com/thehumaninterface_small_h264.mov

It can be found here:
http://www.interfce.com/thehumaninterface_small_h264.mov

Some reasons why i’ve choosen to use a bike, in combo with a subway system, as my main transportation:

1. Exercise. Riding your bike is low impact form of exercise. Since your it’s energy source, it’s energy is food, who doesn’t love food? I’ll have more of it.
2. It’s faster. You can get two things done at once, your daily exercise and daily transportation. Plus a bike is faster than a car in congested areas.
3. Good for traveling. You can easily stop and investigate interesting things along your path. Like life, getting to the end isn’t the goal, enjoying your way is!
4. The area you live feels very important.
5. Better visibility. When you’re riding a bike you are more fluid and flexible, you can go through areas where cars have to stop. This is possible because your ability to have a better view of traffic.
6. For longer travel you can combo up it up! take your bike on the train, bus, or car.
7. It doesn’t have a tracking number on it, like a controllable ‘object’ in a computer system. It’s a great way to avoid the DMV, parking tickets, registration fines, and smog checks.
8. You can customize it very easily. I’ve taken my mountain bike and transformed it into an urban bike monster; slick thin tires, bike handlebars turned down, and custom paint on frame and rims.

Here is what I have in my ~/.emacs. Emacs22 This is mainly to hide python compile files, or *.pyc, as well as some others files.

gnu.org/.../Omitting-Examples...

3.2 Examples of Omitting Various File Types

• If you wish to avoid seeing RCS files and the RCS directory, then put

            (setq dired-omit-files
                  (concat dired-omit-files "\|^RCS$\|,v$"))
       

  in the dired-load-hook (see Installation). This assumes

  dired-omit-localp has its default value of no-dir to make the
  ^-anchored matches work. As a slower alternative, with
  dired-omit-localp set to nil, you can use / instead of
  ^ in the regexp.

• If you use tib, the bibliography program for use with TeX and
  LaTeX, and you
  want to omit the INDEX and the *-t.tex files, then put

            (setq dired-omit-files
                  (concat dired-omit-files "\|^INDEX$\|-t\.tex$"))
       

  in the dired-load-hook (see Installation).

• If you do not wish to see `dot' files (files starting with a .),
  then put

            (setq dired-omit-files
                  (concat dired-omit-files "\|^\..+$"))
       

  in the dired-load-hook (see Installation).