Show HN: My 1-year project, iPad IDE with GitHub and Heroku integration

Hi HN,<p>I've been implementing it since July last year. I'm still developing / improving it. Well, Apple just approved the latest version.<p>Well, it's not LightTable, but with it, you can commit to GitHub and deploy to Heroku, StackMob, or AppHarbor from your iPad.

What I really miss in this one is a key helper like the one Textastic brings: <a href="http://www.textasticapp.com/images/screenshot2.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.textasticapp.com/images/screenshot2.png</a>. This feature alone made me buy the app.

Most probably after this, I'll add server side execution (since Apple doesn't allow execution of downloaded code on iPad)<p>Thus, you can run Python, Ruby, etc from the iPad. Worqshop will transfer the code to server, execute, and bring the results back to the iPad. Seamlessly and transparently.

Is there a custom keyboard like with iSSH: <a href="http://www.zinger-soft.com/support_g_3.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.zinger-soft.com/support_g_3.html</a><p>The problem is that certain punctuation symbols (: . { }) are used often and they require a modal change to input them. I point to iSSH because the ability to reconfigure the keyboard makes it easy to type large blocks of code.

The one thing I always miss on iPad editors is VIM Binding support: Especially on the iPad, where making selections with your finger is a pain, it is so relieving to be able to do a shift-b, 5j to select a piece of code, copy it and paste it somewhere else.<p>On normal computers, the existence of a trackpad or mouse makes navigating code possible. But on the iPad, I see a huge need for the kind of editing that VIM (or Emacs) enabled where you don't need to move your fingers from the keyboard to navigate. Sadly, the only way to have that on the iPad, right now, is running VIM in iSSH (needs server connection) or the ported VIM which doesn't run correctly on my iPad 3.

Cool. Is there or is there plans for a darker theme? A fair number of people don't like big expanses of white on backlit screens.

This looks awesome! I've been casually looking for/thinking about something like this so that I could take my iPad and Bluetooth keyboard when traveling but still be able to get some coding done. Heading to the app store now...

I know the future might be LightTable ... maybe. But for now I'm happy to see that it's becoming fashionable to have your IDE "small" and "thin". Not only in the hardware that you use it on, but also in the features and functionality. Even the idea of distributing the execution of scripts is appealing. Sometimes it does feel as though I want my laptop to just deal with the text (format, highlight, modify with ease) and have some other device take care of the execution and simply ping me when things are going well/bad.<p>Right now our world it text based. And efforts like this make that circumstance better IMO.

I've been looking forward to a proper editor with GitHub integration, if only for writing notes and documentation into a git repo. (PlainText is great for doing so to Dropbox, but I miss the power of git.)<p>Downside, trying Worqshop out and it crashes as soon as I enter my credentials when creating a new project. Consistently. I really hope this gets fixed quickly. (I'm on a 3rd gen iPad, the "new" one, and am using a bluetooth keyboard. Edit: though it crashes without the keyboard on, too. Fully up-to-date and everything.)

Nice job! Just shared it with people at my job.<p>One minor comment: the text in the screenshots is very hard to read without enlarging, and looks blurry at least in iTunes on my mac. I would make the font a little bigger, perhaps like Textastic or even slightly bigger.<p>Also, the bright green for the comments is a little too... bright.<p>This is minor stuff but it affects the first impression a perspective customer might have. An easy fix though. =)

This looks lovely! Nicely done.<p>Big question that I couldn't see an answer to in the screenshots: how do you tab?<p>Also, is there any chance of custom syntax highlighting for people like me who need to code in languages like (say it quietly) PHP from time to time?

How does it compares with textastic <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/textastic-code-editor/id383577124?mt=8" rel="nofollow">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/textastic-code-editor/id38357...</a>

This looks awesome and with it (when it gets a few more languages for syntax highlighting) I will really have to reconsider buying an iPad + bluetooth keyboard for on-the-road/on-vacation times when I need to make minor edits online for work. Also I would order an iPad today if it also included an ssh terminal. That would seal it for me! Also maybe some way to connect through sftp and edit files directly on a server would be great

How did you integrate it with github? Do you have a git client in the app, or are you only using the github api?

There's no mention of FTP - is it possible to deploy to a server other than Heroku? The iPad IDEs I've tried are all lacking an integrated FTP client which provides a decent workflow for web dev, if you provided this in worqshop I'd adopt it in a heartbeat!

I've been developing Heroku and GitHub integration for months, at the expense of a better editor. But what people want is a better editor: themes, vim keybinding, extra keyboard, etc :) I'll try to do it after I finish with the server side code execution.

Buying and trying now. I'm hopeful. I've been thinking that this is an app that clearly needs to happen and (while I'm glad you're charging less) I'd easily pay $99 for if it was perfect.<p>If this is good, I'm going to buy a bluetooth keyboard for the iPad tomorrow.

While I applaud the effort, I do not understand the motivation. When I want to develop something, I use a desktop or a notebook, and I'm never away from one long enough that I would have no choice but to work on a mobile device.

Pardon my shallowness, but the bright green on white on the home page screenshots screams all over the rest of the page for me (in a bad voice). The pills below the screenshots are also hard to click with a trackpad.

This looks really exciting. I know that coding will be done on iPads but the model has always been clunky. This looks like a good start in the right direction.

Awesome!<p>Just a very small issue with the website: I wanted to click on the screenshot on the homepage, but it didn't work. I expected it to be clickable and do the slideshow.

What about C? If not remote compilation/execution, then at least syntax highlighting?<p>I guess the obvious thing otherwise would be iSSH to your own GNU/Linux box and Emacs

Sidenote: Annoying how simple slide animations like that on the homepage that I assume are using jquery are super laggy on the iPad itself.

That looks excellent, I really like it.<p>Could you talk a bit about how you did the text rendering? Basically my question is, how do you render nice text?

Does this work with any Git repo or just GitHub? I've been using BitBucket recently for free private repos.

So I'm all for IDE's on the ipad, but why would you want to code on an ipad?<p>but regardless of my question, looks good man

What kind of sales are you getting with $7.99 as the price point? Have you considered increasing it?

Awesome! A fantastic step in the right direction for iPad development.<p>Feature request: hooper selection.

Apps like this make the iPad+keyboard a useful development tool.

nice, looks handy. any plans for coffeescript support?

How does it compare to Cloud9?

Crashes on iOS 5.1 after I successfully log in to github.

Poor you, it is obvious that one needs a real keyboard to code, any touchscreen just won't let you type quick enough.<p>The iPad is no good for any kind of authoring. I own one, love it but can hardly make myself even type a 3 sentence email on it, let alone code.<p>I'm afraid you've waisted a year.