Hi,
I decided to go at the last minute. We formed a team with a physician and were able to build a first prototype of a data visualization app for iPad that helps physicians compare different treatments for a given illness. The data comes from a database of a curated list of medical studies. We started the programming saturday morning at 9 and finished at 5pm with a working app. We had an interface designer with us so the app is also gorgeous.
All the code (95% would be more accurate) is written in Gambit and using a remote REPL we were able to develop interactively. We also used macros intensively to generate some code for us. Some of them were provided be Jeffrey Read (thank you Jeff) for FFI to Objective-C generation. This was crucial when we were at the very end trying to tweak the interfaces to the taste of the physician.
It was an amazing experience. We didn't win a prize but we developed, by far, the most advanced app of all the teams in my opinion (only one other team had an iOS app and they that just two very simple screens that we could have done in 10 minutes).
Thank you Marc for giving us access to such a powerful environment. Thank you to all of you in the Gambit community for helping me on this mailing list.
Francois Magnan
On 2012-02-27, at 08:29, Alexandre Abreu wrote:
Hi,
Hello. I am looking for people interested in joining a team of hackers for this weekend's "Hacking Health Hackathon" (http://www.hackinghealth.ca/) in Montreal. I am putting together a team with the objective of using Gambit, and Gambit REPL on the iPhone, to build a prototype health related application. The organizers are expecting over 150 hackers, and there are prizes to win.
Did you succeed in getting a team together (I couldn't, too late notice), and if yes, what did you build?
Alex
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On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 10:00 -0500, Francois Magnan wrote:
It was an amazing experience. We didn't win a prize but we developed, by far, the most advanced app of all the teams in my opinion (only one other team had an iOS app and they that just two very simple screens that we could have done in 10 minutes).
Thank you Marc for giving us access to such a powerful environment. Thank you to all of you in the Gambit community for helping me on this mailing list.
Congratulations! It sounds like all the work that Marc has put into the iOS port of Gambit is paying off.
Brad
I'm stoked that my Objective-C macros were used to build something so remarkably awesome! Kudos and congratulations!
--Jeff
This is very interesting. Congratulations to everyone involved.
If there's an opportunity to get screen shots on the web somewhere, I'm sure many of us would like to see the user interface itself.
-Patrick
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Francois Magnan magnan@categoricaldesign.com wrote:
Hi,
I decided to go at the last minute. We formed a team with a physician and were able to build a first prototype of a data visualization app for iPad that helps physicians compare different treatments for a given illness. The data comes from a database of a curated list of medical studies. We started the programming saturday morning at 9 and finished at 5pm with a working app. We had an interface designer with us so the app is also gorgeous.
All the code (95% would be more accurate) is written in Gambit and using a remote REPL we were able to develop interactively. We also used macros intensively to generate some code for us. Some of them were provided be Jeffrey Read (thank you Jeff) for FFI to Objective-C generation. This was crucial when we were at the very end trying to tweak the interfaces to the taste of the physician.
It was an amazing experience. We didn't win a prize but we developed, by far, the most advanced app of all the teams in my opinion (only one other team had an iOS app and they that just two very simple screens that we could have done in 10 minutes).
Thank you Marc for giving us access to such a powerful environment. Thank you to all of you in the Gambit community for helping me on this mailing list.
Francois Magnan
On 2012-02-27, at 08:29, Alexandre Abreu wrote:
Hi,
Hello. I am looking for people interested in joining a team of hackers for this weekend's "Hacking Health Hackathon" (http://www.hackinghealth.ca/) in Montreal. I am putting together a team with the objective of using Gambit, and Gambit REPL on the iPhone, to build a prototype health related application. The organizers are expecting over 150 hackers, and there are prizes to win.
Did you succeed in getting a team together (I couldn't, too late notice), and if yes, what did you build?
Alex
MSLUG mailing list MSLUG@iro.umontreal.ca https://webmail.iro.umontreal.ca/mailman/listinfo/mslug
Gambit-iphone mailing list Gambit-iphone@iro.umontreal.ca https://webmail.iro.umontreal.ca/mailman/listinfo/gambit-iphone
Found them in Dumping Grounds :)
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Patrick Logan patrickdlogan@gmail.com wrote:
This is very interesting. Congratulations to everyone involved.
If there's an opportunity to get screen shots on the web somewhere, I'm sure many of us would like to see the user interface itself.
-Patrick
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Francois Magnan magnan@categoricaldesign.com wrote:
Hi,
I decided to go at the last minute. We formed a team with a physician and were able to build a first prototype of a data visualization app for iPad that helps physicians compare different treatments for a given illness. The data comes from a database of a curated list of medical studies. We started the programming saturday morning at 9 and finished at 5pm with a working app. We had an interface designer with us so the app is also gorgeous.
All the code (95% would be more accurate) is written in Gambit and using a remote REPL we were able to develop interactively. We also used macros intensively to generate some code for us. Some of them were provided be Jeffrey Read (thank you Jeff) for FFI to Objective-C generation. This was crucial when we were at the very end trying to tweak the interfaces to the taste of the physician.
It was an amazing experience. We didn't win a prize but we developed, by far, the most advanced app of all the teams in my opinion (only one other team had an iOS app and they that just two very simple screens that we could have done in 10 minutes).
Thank you Marc for giving us access to such a powerful environment. Thank you to all of you in the Gambit community for helping me on this mailing list.
Francois Magnan
On 2012-02-27, at 08:29, Alexandre Abreu wrote:
Hi,
Hello. I am looking for people interested in joining a team of hackers for this weekend's "Hacking Health Hackathon" (http://www.hackinghealth.ca/) in Montreal. I am putting together a team with the objective of using Gambit, and Gambit REPL on the iPhone, to build a prototype health related application. The organizers are expecting over 150 hackers, and there are prizes to win.
Did you succeed in getting a team together (I couldn't, too late notice), and if yes, what did you build?
Alex
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