Im back!

Im back from my vacation in Europe and my mind is full of Ideas. I had never been out of the country before and doing so opened so many thoughts to my world of design. I spent time in England, Paris and Rural Germany, and each one had something completely different to offer.

I have now been on 7 different subway systems. Subways are something I really love. Public transportation in general, but especially subways. There are just so many pieces in making the subway work. From the ticket to the turn style to the train itself. When considering the design of the system I never take the stop locations into consideration because that is often something that just can’t be redesigned. But taking in everything else, I have to say Paris’s is my favorite so far. It just works so well. The new trains especially are very nice. It is like one long train with no doors between the cars, and makes it  incredibly quiet. But this brings me to something else… Baby carriages.

My brother and his wife went to paris with us, and they brought their 15 month old Hannah with them. So for 6 days we saw a ton of Paris and didnt make any compromised due having the carriage. So I got to know and really understand a lot about how they work/don’t in a big city. The carriage they have is big, and often too big (by an inch or so) for the subway entrances/exits. So we had to carry it over at times, squeeze at others, and all around test the boundaries of the two working against each other. If the wheels only could have folded in a little, it would have worked so much better.

There is so much I could say about the trip it is crazy. Especially about the food -> I know now, I would love to live in Paris, and I could never live in England. But that’s that and I wish (or not) that I could say I didnt slip in a little work while I was there, but I did.

I actually did a lot. I worked alot on my mediawiki extension, and wrote another. But then I started thinking  about how code would be stored on bildr. As of last writing I was intending on having the code stored/edited in the wiki, but I came across gitHub(social networking for code) and looked at using it as the code repository. I actually wrote one of the extensions to embed this.

But I thought that the main thing I want to do. I want one project that is written in many languages. This way a user can select the code they are most comfortable with among other reasons. But with using mediawiki and gitHub I would have to start a new page/ project for each language. So what do I do? Well I started a few days ago writing my own system. And I must say, I am going WAY overboard. Way… way overboard. But it is cool. I have never had the need to make a desktop like application as a website, but that’s what it is. It’s a little complicated, but if you want to see it (safari/ firefox only) go to code.bildr.org (pics below)

That’s all for now, but I do start work tomorrow, so I’ll have lots to talk about soon.

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