[gambit-list] [MSLUG] Hacking Health Hackathon

Álvaro Castro-Castilla alvaro.castro.castilla at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 17:23:53 EST 2012


May we take a look at those Objective-C macros? (apologies if they are
known to every one, I'm not into iPhone dev. ATM) :)



On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Steve Graham <jsgrahamus at yahoo.com> wrote:
> So, am I to understand that the development was done on the iPad?  If not,
> what additional hardware/software was used?
>
> ________________________________
> From: Francois Magnan <magnan at categoricaldesign.com>
> To: Marc Feeley <feeley at iro.umontreal.ca>; Gambit List
> <gambit-list at iro.umontreal.ca>; mslug at iro.umontreal.ca;
> "gambit-iphone at iro.umontreal.ca" <Gambit-iphone at iro.umontreal.ca>
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 8:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [gambit-list] [MSLUG] Hacking Health Hackathon
>
> 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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