Most of the time, my little hacks are command line apps, without much flash. But lately I find myself doing more and more artsy side-projects.

Aside from my one at work (which is pretty cool!), I’ve been working on writing a Getting Things Done webapp here at home. I named it Sencha after my favorite green tea at Samovar, and the time when I feel most in charge of things.

After designing and implementing the data model, I’m now spending some time on the interface. I sketched this on the BART to work a few days ago. Tonight I finally got to a stage where I’m seeing some resemblance!

It’s just weird that it’s a role I’d never thought I’d like playing or have any talent for. It’s also not something they teach you in engineering school (though admittedly, I never took 160 or 169, but am not sure what level of detail they go into)

And, I mean, me? With a sketchbook?

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For the record — open source rocks. This Dokuwiki syntax plugin is about two years old and was not WP2.1 compatible. But I fixed it And then, I upgraded it’s version of [[http://qbnz.com/highlighter/|GeSHi]] to support more languages. As you can see below. Ruby, for instance wasn’t in there

Does it really work? The mind boggles…

BTW, FireBug has been immensely helpful in the process of setting up this blog ====Ruby Test==== 0.upto(9) do |x| print "This is cool -- ", x, "\n" end

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