[Jprogramming] JHS update

[Xiao-Yong Jin]

I have a suggestion, but not much data analysis.
Making an educational website akin to TryAPL[0] would greatly
benefit the J community, especially when the website is powered
by J and open source.

[0] http://tryapl.org

One of the appealing parts of TryAPL is its APL cheat sheet.
The popup really shines.  The other is its permanent link for
any APL sentence.  For example:
http://tryapl.org/?a=%u2218.%D7%u2368%u23739&run

> On Oct 20, 2016, at 11:26 AM, Joe Bogner <joebogner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Eric, all -
> 
> I'm comfortable with all those aspects and would be willing/open to
> contribute an app that the community would find useful. I don't have a
> particularly good idea of what to build though. Any thoughts?
> 
> Thoughts:
> 1. Stock price analysis tool (maybe not that interesting/useful, lots of
> things out there)
> 2. Weather tool (maybe not useful)
> 3. Tool to analyze some useful public dataset (what dataset to use?)
> 4. Generic tool for analyzing any CSV/txt (probably most useful but largest
> scope)
> 
> I don't want to be too ambitious due to limited capacity but I think it
> could be a fun exercise that would benefit others. No promises yet, but if
> a good idea bubbles up and if there's enough interest I'd be up for trying
> to build it
> 
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Eric Iverson <eric.b.iverson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Joe,
>> Thanks for the feedback.
>> 
>> The learning curve for a serious JHS gui app is steep. One has to be good
>> at: j/html/css/javascript and perhaps libraries such as jquery and d3.
>> 
>> I would love to see a real app that can be shared with the community.
>> 
>> Most current use of JHS is as a simple desktop interface to J. I think
>> there is enormous potential to JHS as a real server, but so far it is
>> mostly untouched.
>> 
>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Joe Bogner <joebogner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> The app building examples are a nice addition. I recall struggling
>> through
>>> it a few years back so it seems like it will be helpful for beginners.
>>> 
>>> The last example (5) is nice to show a simple example of a plot on a JHS
>>> page.
>>> 
>>> A wishlist item is to have a more complete demo app, something
>>> representative of how the concepts get applied to real problems. The
>>> current demos/examples feel more like building blocks, which are
>> important,
>>> but it's also helpful to see something that gives an idea of what's
>>> possible.
>>> 
>>> On the topic of what's possible, can anyone with production experience of
>>> JHS comment on how they are using it? Have you deployed it to multiple
>>> users, running on a server, or do users run it on their workstations?
>> What
>>> types of applications are built with JHS (e.g. interactive reports,
>>> calculator" front-ends) ?
>>> 
>>> Thank you for the improvements to JHS!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Björn Helgason <gosinn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> nice
>>>> 
>>>> just took a very short look
>>>> 
>>>> more later
>>>> 
>>>> On 18 Oct 2016 14:52, "Eric Iverson" <eric.b.iverson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> A major JHS update is available. If you use JHS, it is suggested you
>>> move
>>>>> to this as soon as convenient. If you don't use JHS, perhaps now is
>> the
>>>>> time to give it a shot.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Look at the reworked studio menu. Try out the app building examples.
>>>>> Finally there is a more beginner friendly way to learn how to build a
>>> JHS
>>>>> GUI app.
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