Two weeks ago, I laid down some ideas and thoughts about user interface for ShareMyCab.net. I finished the form that allows to save a new taxi trip, and which is the center-piece of the site.
I’m an not a professional / full-time developer, so I’m quite proud of the behind-the-scene javascript that handles the form.But now i need help to make sure it works fine and fulfills a simple goal: I want the script to understand the user however the user understands the form.
Thank you !
Bike hokey competition on Forsyth and Broome
…. watching my kitchen and bathroom being repaired (and tore down before) after a big water flood on the above apartment.
Yeeha.
It’s been just about a month that I started testing the alpha of ShareMyCab. The feedback from my friends was very positive … when speaking about the concept. Speaking about the execution, they were, well …. let’s see, “polite” would be the term (I guess). To say things clearly: it sucks. And they pointed their finger at two things:
- the fact that there are two forms to save cab trips; one if the trip is from or to an airport and another if the trip is from two random points,
- the fact that each of the two forms were not clear, complicated, cumbersome, uneasy to understand, … Continue reading ‘User interface thoughts for ShareMyCab.net’
Geo Location from IP address
The home page of ShareMyCab displays a basic map, centered on New York for the beta.
You can change it to your city by simply re-centering the map on it but one of the features of my roadmap was to personalize the map for each user. If you’re in Tokyo, London, Paris or New York, the Google map would be automatically centered on the city you are browsing from.
Continue reading ‘GeoIP: from an IP to a location + Dreamhost fopen limitations …’
Including brunch at Little Odessa :))
From the original post here: Minor improvements on CabEasy.com (ex ShareMyCab.net), but improvements that count !First: when watching the details of a trip, you can now see the quantity of CO² emission of that specific trip, and how sharing this trip would reduce that quantity. The numbers, for the moment, are based on the average consumption of a 2006 Ford Crown Victoria and calculated thanks to TerraPass. Continue reading ‘Reduce the greenhouse gas emissions with CabEasy.com’
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