If you are into user interface design, this should appear to you. The blog post can be found here:
http://www.marceloe...user-interface-design/canola-with-carman
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As a follow-up to my video post yesterday, our UI-guru Marcelo, shares some insights on the ideas behind the redesigned Canola menu.
If you are into user interface design, this should appear to you. The blog post can be found here:
http://www.marceloe...user-interface-design/canola-with-carman
If you are into user interface design, this should appear to you. The blog post can be found here:
http://www.marceloe...user-interface-design/canola-with-carman
As promised, I just posted a video demonstrating a part of our Canola framework. Actually, I'm demonstrating a plugin that is not scheduled for inclusion in the first public release, but it shows some of the possibilities.
It is a car module showing RPM, average gasoline consumption, etc, using the python-obdlib from the Carman project (Another INdT project). It communicated with the car using the OBD-II protocol or, as in the demonstration, simulates.
The plugin was written in about a day, excluding the time spent by the designers.
Next up, some mapping action...
It is a car module showing RPM, average gasoline consumption, etc, using the python-obdlib from the Carman project (Another INdT project). It communicated with the car using the OBD-II protocol or, as in the demonstration, simulates.
The plugin was written in about a day, excluding the time spent by the designers.
Next up, some mapping action...
Our UI expert Marcelo recently went to the World Usability Day, here in Recife to talk about usability and the upcoming Canola release. If you pay close attention to the photo below, you will see a part of the new Canola photo view - enjoy ;-)
See ya!
See ya!
Great, it seems that I will be getting a N810 anyway :-) as today I found the activation code in my email inbox!
Thanks you, Nokia!
I'm sure you won't regret, and to let you know, I already helped Marcelo Lira getting started with creating packages for Chinook.
So this post is really about Canola; it looks like all the lucky N800 owners out there is going to get themselves a Christmas present this year. Yes, about 5 months in the works, the new version of Canola is finally starting to take form and we are aiming at a Christmas release for the public.
Canola has been totally rewritten, using new libraries mostly developed jointly with the open source community and using our beloved python. And it is filled with nice new features, cool, usable effects, and not to forget, it is fast!
With the use of python and our new Canola framework, it is going to be easy to extend Canola in many ways, by writing plugins. Actually, Canola is just a framework and a bunch of plugins, tied nicely together.
Some might say that you could compare it to Google's Android ;-)
Doing the last months I have been writing plugin for interacting with automobiles, more or less providing what Carman provides, but integrated with Canola, using the new framework. I have also worked on GPS navigation, and map exploration, so it is now possible to use Canola for getting around the city :-) This will not be on the December release, but shows our explorations and the possibilities of the framework.
To show you all what we are working on, I will try to post some videos one of the days.
I will keep you posted!
Thanks you, Nokia!
I'm sure you won't regret, and to let you know, I already helped Marcelo Lira getting started with creating packages for Chinook.
So this post is really about Canola; it looks like all the lucky N800 owners out there is going to get themselves a Christmas present this year. Yes, about 5 months in the works, the new version of Canola is finally starting to take form and we are aiming at a Christmas release for the public.
Canola has been totally rewritten, using new libraries mostly developed jointly with the open source community and using our beloved python. And it is filled with nice new features, cool, usable effects, and not to forget, it is fast!
With the use of python and our new Canola framework, it is going to be easy to extend Canola in many ways, by writing plugins. Actually, Canola is just a framework and a bunch of plugins, tied nicely together.
Some might say that you could compare it to Google's Android ;-)
Doing the last months I have been writing plugin for interacting with automobiles, more or less providing what Carman provides, but integrated with Canola, using the new framework. I have also worked on GPS navigation, and map exploration, so it is now possible to use Canola for getting around the city :-) This will not be on the December release, but shows our explorations and the possibilities of the framework.
To show you all what we are working on, I will try to post some videos one of the days.
I will keep you posted!
So, long time since I have blogged about work, but to let you know, things are progressing quite rapidly and I'm quite sure that you will all love the new Canola ;-) Still stuff to do, but christmas is coming soon... and if things go well, maybe there will be a nice present for all of you.
As most of you know I work at INdT, and I must say that I am enjoying it. It is a lot of work, but I work with a great team of talented people and we sure have a lot of fun at the office, especially due to my malpracticing Portuguese and my lack of shyness... but hmm.. let's not talk more about that :-)
Unfortunately, I didn't get accepted in the N810 device program, so for the time being I will stick to bora for developing Canola. It seems like a very nice device though, and I especially like that it has an integrated GPS now that I work a bit with that, but unfortunately I heard some people comment that the FM radio seems to have been removed. If that turns out to be true that is really a shame, as I used that in the trains quite some times.
As most of you know I work at INdT, and I must say that I am enjoying it. It is a lot of work, but I work with a great team of talented people and we sure have a lot of fun at the office, especially due to my malpracticing Portuguese and my lack of shyness... but hmm.. let's not talk more about that :-)
Unfortunately, I didn't get accepted in the N810 device program, so for the time being I will stick to bora for developing Canola. It seems like a very nice device though, and I especially like that it has an integrated GPS now that I work a bit with that, but unfortunately I heard some people comment that the FM radio seems to have been removed. If that turns out to be true that is really a shame, as I used that in the trains quite some times.
Seems like the N800 page is having some problems today ;-)
