Kiln

by adelevie • 13 years ago

233 61 13 years ago

spicyj3• 13 years ago

Kiln is already a well-known software development tool from Fog Creek: http://www.fogcreek.com/kiln/. I wonder if the author knows.

colinta6• 13 years ago

nope, never heard of it.

w1ntermute4• 13 years ago

Clearly not that well-known, then. I've never heard of it either. The Fog Creek Kiln project doesn't have its own Wikipedia page (which I consider a rough threshold for notability).

psycr• 13 years ago

Changing its name would be an appreciated gesture, I think. I'm sure others will agree. I confused it initially thinking it would be related to Fog Creek.

InclinedPlane2• 13 years ago

It is literally the first google result when you search for "kiln", even above the original definition of the term.

raverbashing• 13 years ago

Tip for naming your projects: google it first

I'm not blaming anyone or saying anyone is wrong.

But I almost named a project I was involved "beaver" something. (No, I am not a native speaker)

coolsunglasses• 13 years ago

There's a Kiln for Ring app context management in the Clojure world too.

shawn-butler• 13 years ago

Sounds like an opportunity. Maybe a name/brand search tool dedicated to software projects that gives a report on conflicts that costs a few bucks or is ad-supported.

martinwnet• 13 years ago

Google?

jkubicek• 13 years ago

As cool as that looks, I've been using DCIntrospect for a year or two, and it's nearly everything I need in a live UI inspection tool.

https://github.com/domesticcatsoftware/DCIntrospect

colinta6• 13 years ago

I spent a long time trying to find similar things to what I was building, and of course now I'm finding out about PonyDebugger and this tool.

Different, though, because Kiln is meant to be more generic, and pluggable.

objclxt2• 13 years ago

It's not totally clear from the project page, but I'm pretty sure this particular project is for RubyMotion, and you'll need to be writing your apps with that to benefit. You wouldn't be able to integrate Kiln straight into an existing Objective-C/XCode flow, unlike DCIntrospect. Someone do correct me if I'm wrong on this though.

colinta6• 13 years ago

That's correct - RubyMotion only for now.

sergiotapia• 13 years ago

Gone now. Anyone have a mirror?

graue• 13 years ago

It's working fine for me. Did you scroll down to the readme?

zachlatta• 13 years ago

It's there for me.

film42• 13 years ago

Check the link to make sure there weren't any added parameters. I know hacker node had/has a problem with that.

spicyj3• 13 years ago

This looks like it gives a lot of what I hoped PonyDebugger [1] would be when I first heard about it. Cool!

[1] https://github.com/square/PonyDebugger

colinta6• 13 years ago

Thanks! PonyDebugger is solid, though, and much more useful from when you're at a computer. This project is all about getting debugging information from your device.

blueprint• 13 years ago

I hope that this turns into on-device development. I would pay a handsome sum to be able to code on my iPad mini or iPhone on the train.

mion• 13 years ago

This is awesome, great work! However, and I don't mean to be rude, lemme just give you a tip about your documentation.

I'm not a "documentation expert" or anything, but IMHO I'd say there is too much information on your "landing page" and not a clear "call to action":

- How about some installation instructions?

- Basic usage? (addressing the main features, those which most users will probably use most of the time) If I were you I'd put the details about plugins somewhere in the Wiki.

I don't have a lot of spare time to check out your thing, so the project becomes increasingly unattractive as I have to waste more and more time to figure out how to use it / how to get it up and running for a basic test.

Again, IMHO, I believe this applies to most hackers, and to open source documentation in general. Very often I see great hackers who can code 1000x better than I do, but fail to write 'attractive' documentation for their projects.

thomasfl• 13 years ago

How many people are using ruby motion to create ios apps?

colinta6• 13 years ago

name is resolved, so all the trolls and snipes that are hung up on the NAME instead of the PRODUCT, please continue your trolling and sniping, but on a new topic (like this comment! it's perfect!)

https://github.com/colinta/motion-xray

Kiln

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