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It looks pretty (although blasdel's comment gives some reasons to take that with a grain of salt), and I'm all for being able to code everywhere and anywhere.
by telemachos 17y ago
It looks pretty (although blasdel's comment gives some reasons to take that with a grain of salt), and I'm all for being able to code everywhere and anywhere.
But.
1. I can't open a terminal and run the script.
2. No irb (or ipython or ghci or...) to test-run pieces of code.
3. Until multi-tasking gets going, no music while coding.
I'm not sure it really counts as coding, if you can't run, test or put on some headphones.
- philwelch 17y ago"3. Until multi-tasking gets going, no music while coding." The built in iPod app will, in fact, play music in the background while you do other things.
- telemachos 17y agoThanks for the clarification. I thought you could only play music in the background while using other Apple apps (Safari, Mail, whatever). I'm glad to hear that I'm wrong.
- philwelch 17y agoA third party app (Pandora, for instance) can stop the iPod if it wants to, but not all third party apps (Mint) do.
- whatusername 17y agoSome games (Civ Revolutions for one) will ask you if you want to keep playing your own music or if you want Civ to play it's music. Some games just stop the iPod app's music :(
- tvon 17y agoThe screenshot shows PHP, and it's conceivable that you could work entirely with remote files by keeping a local copy in sync, so you'd just preview in Safari... Not that the whole idea appeals to me, but I'm just sayin, if you were on a mission to build some websites on the iPad, you could pull it off... (Not that you said it was impossible or anything)