1. No more invitations – Lucidity is now open to everyone
2. Comment on yours and other’s dreams
3. Community page, which includes links to recent public dreams as well as a tag cloud
4. Bug fixes

Enjoy!

If you have a few dollars to spare, please consider backing Lucidity. We have some really fun reward ideas in mind for anyone who backs the project. There’s only 19 days left and we still have a long ways to go, and anything helps.

If you don’t have a few dollars but have a few minutes, we’d also appreciate any shares on Facebook, Twitter, or via email. All the methods to share can be found at this link:

http://kck.st/x3DbjA

Lastly, we’d like to thank Lauren Atchley for agreeing to act in our Kickstarter video and all our friends and family who have backed us so far. We really, really appreciate it!

Because we still have a few bugs and kinks to work out, Lucidity will only be available by invite for the next few months. To get an invite, head over to the Lucidity website and enter your email address. Once we have some more invites available, you’ll receive an email with your access link.

We hope you enjoy Lucidity, and if you have any comments/suggestions/bug reports, please contact us!

We decided to go ahead and use the mHealth API in our project to qualify for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes, so on Saturday we brainstormed some ideas, did some wireframes, and showed up bright and early on Sunday morning at The Palms to start coding. We collaborated with two of our (now ex-) coworkers at Zappos who helped us with the back-end and the business presentation.

The app we conceived was called Intensify, which is a mobile game that brings elliptical and tredmill-based workouts to your mobile phone and adds a competitive element to them. Users can choose their workout and then find friends near them to compete with. Whoever has the most intense workout wins, which we track through mobile accelerometers and/or GPS.

While we didn’t win the hack-a-thon, it was definitely an interesting experience trying to code an entire app in only 8 hours. It was nice that we only spent a day on it, but at the same time, it’s not nearly enough time to get an app in any condition to be demoed. This alone was unfortunate, because 2 of the 3 finalists were teams who had already been working on their app for months or years. It was definitely discouraging, because we both felt like it took away from the spirit of a hack-a-thon, which is why we didn’t start any development until we arrived on Sunday morning.

Either way, we now have a half-baked app which we hope to eventually port over to our own development stack. Perhaps one day you’ll be able to find it in the App Store.

Django templates provide a convenient {% trans "" } tag for which there is no mustache equivalent. So, how do we handle internationalization in Pystache? I forked Pystache and added a new tag, {{@ }} that calls into django.utils.translation.ugettext to translate whatever is inside the tag. This way we put our text that we need translated inside the tag like so: {{@Hello!}} and as long as we have the rest of our localization setup correctly, the text gets translated into the language sent in the Accept-Language header.

So that covers server side translation, but what about when the client needs to render a template, surely you don’t want to modify mustache.js and deal with the headache that JavaScript internationalization is? Of course not, but I have a simpler solution! Since the server sends the mustache template down, we can simply intercept that request, and send down a version with the {{@ }} pre-rendered by the server, and all other tags left intact so that mustache.js can render them. To do this, rather than call view.render() on your Pystache views, you can call view.renderOnlyLocalization() and get the template with only the {{@ }} tags rendered. So, given the following template:

{{@Hi}} {{name}} {{@How are you on this fine day of}} {{date}}

The server will send the following to the client, which can then be rendered via mustache.js:

Hi {{name}} How are you on this fine day of {{date}}

You can get the source here if you want to use this in your own projects or add on to it.

function() {
  var id = this._id;
  if(this.description != null) {
    var terms = this.description.split(/\s+/g);
    for(var i = 0; i < terms.length; i++) {
      var term = terms[i];
      if(term != null && term != '') {
        term = term.toLowerCase();
        var result = { };
        result[id] = 1;
        emit(term, result);
      }
    }
  }
}

Here is the JavaScript reduce step:

function(term, emits) {
  var result = {};
  for (var i = 0; i < emits.length; i++) {
    var emit = emits[i];
    for(var id in emit) {
      if(result.hasOwnProperty(id)) {
        result[id] += emit[id];
      }
      else {
       result[id] = emit[id];
      }
    }
  }
  return result;
}

Here the emits are aggregated and stored into an index collection that you can use for providing search functionality. The index collection _id field contains the term, and the value field contains a list of mappings of document _id‘s that contain the term to the amount of times the term appears in the document. As a side bonus you can also provide autocomplete functionality by using a regex to find documents, here is the Python PyMongo code to do so:

collection.find({'_id':re.compile('^' + t + '/*', re.IGNORECASE)})

This solution lacks some more advanced features that are desirable in text search engines, such as term stemming. If you need more advanced searching I recommend using software dedicated to text search, such as Solr.

Happy List Making,
The Lystee Team

Need some list ideas?

We put together some list suggestions to get you thinking about what made 2011 a year to remember (or not) and what you hope to accomplish in 2012.

• New Year’s Resolutions
• Best Moments Of 2011
• Predictions For 2012
• My New Year’s Eve Traditions

Share your lists.

While creating your lists, don’t forget that you can share any public list via Facebook, Twitter, or email by clicking on any of the icons below the “add” button.

Create lists on-the-go.

Lystee for iPhone is now in the App Store. This free app lets you create and manage lists on-the-go wherever inspiration strikes.

Have a list suggestion?

Shoot us an email at 8byte8@gmail.com with your new year list suggestion and you may see it featured on the homepage!

Happy List Making,
- The Lystee Team

What does this mean?
This means that we’ll be able to spend much more time working on new apps and improving our existing apps.

What will you be working on?
We’re hoping to get Lucidity into beta by early spring, and we have some fun new features for Lystee up our sleeve. Everything else is top-secret!

What will you guys be doing?
Jason will be working as 8byte8′s back-end and mobile developer, and Jen will be working as 8byte8′s designer and front-end developer.

Are you guys staying in Vegas?
For the time being, yes.

Wish us luck!

Need some list ideas?

Start off with some of these ideas to get your creative juices flowing.

• Naughty And Nice List
• Favorite Things About The Holidays
• The Best Holiday Treats
• Favorite Christmas Songs
• Christmas Wish List
• Holiday Traditions In My Family

Share your lists.

While creating your lists, don’t forget that you can share any public list via Facebook, Twitter, or email by clicking on any of the icons below the “add” button.

Create lists on-the-go.

Lystee for iPhone is now in the App Store. This free app lets you create and manage lists on-the-go wherever inspiration strikes.

Have a list suggestion?

Shoot us an email at 8byte8@gmail.com with your holiday list suggestion and you may see it featured on the homepage!

Happy List Making,
- The Lystee Team