On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Ivan Andrus <darthand...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Sage iPhone users, > > I finally took the time to fix the icons on the iPhone app I've been > working on so that I'm not completely embarrassed by them. For those that > want to test it, probably the easiest thing to do is run it on the iPhone > simulator (pointed at an aleph instance running on your own machine). For what "aleph" is, see: http://code.google.com/p/sage-aleph/ It's a small program Rado and I wrote in a day as a lightweight proof of concept for a Sage web service. > The source code can be found at > > http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/iandrus/ > > I also have some screen shots up there if you don't want to compile it but > still want to see what it might look like. > > I need to get some feedback before I can finish it off and put it on the > app store. If you have any ideas, from the smallest typo or color change to > the largest redesign, please let me know. > > Right now the biggest thing holding the app back is what service to use. > It's coded against aleph, which is very easy to use, but isn't currently > running. Moreover it executes python not Sage. Aleph could be improved to > run Sage, or I could switch to using the simple server in which case you > would need to login (or have some sort of universal login). Either way, we > have to commit (as a community) to keep at least one server running the > service. > > I do have some other specific questions that might be easier to answer: > > - Where should I host the source code? as part of Sage or separately e.g. > on bitbucket? > - What is a better name than iSage? just Sage? > - What initial examples should there be? > - Can someone provide me with better icons? :-) > - Should I design a whole new keyboard or just add to the strip across the > top? > > -Ivan > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org