![]() ![]() The same approach is said to work for Firefox.Ĭhrome gives you limited access to JavaScript logs (for all tabs) by adding a tab with chrome://inspect as the URL. Technically, we can put this in the possible column, but it’s not an acceptable development experience. Safari offers an insane and stupid integration that requires using your laptop to access the debug tools for a connected iPad. One surprising problem is that the standard browsers for iPad do not expose the developer tools functionality: It also means that no network connection means no development experience at all. It also means that a bad network connection results in a more frustrating experience. This means your first load in the morning is going to take a minute or two. The bad: in the default (and least expensive) option, that EC2 instance is folded up and put away when not in use. Drop your iPad in the pool, and you have lost exactly 1 pad. It is editing code on an EC2 Linux instance. The Dev Box: EC2Ĭloud9 is not editing code on your iPad. The AWS integrations are pretty sweet though. This is more than a no-frills code editor / IDE, even if it doesn’t quite delight you the way Sublime, Atom, IntelliJ, Eclipse, RubyMine, etc. And yes, you can run vim, emacs, or any other terminal app in that window. Note you can also collapse the side panels, and load a terminal into the main window. It also has a perfectly functional bash shell, so if you are a vim or emacs guy, you could potentially skip the Cloud9 entirely and just use the terminal. Moreover, when working with the AWS environment, it has elegant integrations for writing code that other AWS console interfaces do not offer a great experience for, such as authoring lambdas. For a browser-based app, it is very smooth, responsive, and sophisticated. But it’s not a crappy, second class citizen. Whatever your current favorite is, Cloud9 is likely to fall a little short. If you, like most developers, are very particular about your tools, you may or may not end up liking Cloud9. And also for the server-side components to a mobile app. However, for websites and dynamic web apps, yes. (I haven’t investigated Android, but my expectation is: negatory.) ![]() The iPad cannot be used to build iPad or iPhone apps. Other things, such as software development and podcasting have not worked well on the IPad.įor some categories of software development, that is changing, but there is one very significant exception: Mobile App Development. Do you hear me, Medium?) When it comes to things like digital art, the iPad plus pencil is unbeatable. I write on my iPad (but not Medium articles, the Medium app is total crap on iOS. How many times do I have to poke the screen before I remember that it doesn’t work?įor several years now, most of my web browsing, reading, and entertainment happen on my IPad. I use the iPad for some tasks so regularly that when I go back to the laptop, the interface messes with my head.I work in public a lot and somehow the iPad feels less obnoxious than the laptop.The iPad is better than the laptop for some things, so I need to bring it with me, and I would rather not bring both.The following scenarios occur regularly for me, and maybe one of them resonates with you. When you are traveling - light, less weight, less bulk, and fewer devices all add up to more flexibility. The AWS ecosystem makes this not only possible, but even desirable. There are some attempts at non-networked development and built-for-iPad IDE’s, but in the domain of work I do, these solutions are still awkward and inferior to the cloud-based development I describe. The solution in this essay is all about browser-based networked solutions. And that’s largely been the story ever since.įor the last five or six years I have used my IPad for a variety of creative and administrative tasks, but not until now has it been possible (much less inviting) to use it for software development. But they were expensive, cumbersome, Windows-based neither good laptops nor good tablets. I first had the dream of using a tablet as my main computer device somewhere around 2002 when some of the first laptops started to appear with touch-sensitive screens that opened 360°. But let’s us this ipad for something more interesting than reading the paper…
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