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Cheat iPhone App Launched

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15 pointsshayarnett10 comments

iPhone and iPod touch offline access to 475+ programmer oriented cheat sheets for a BUCK!

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Pros:

- This app has some potential.

Cons:

- No search.

- It's supposedly an 100% offline app but some items display "Unable to contact cheat server."

- No way to add cheat sheets.

- Very poor formatting.

- I'd expect each cheat sheet to be formatted for the iPhone.

- No categories or sorting of any kind.

- No PHP!?

- The Java cheat sheet has a few paragraphs on WHAT JAVA IS!? No actual useful information.

Thanks for having a look! Search is definitely coming, along with favorites, in the next major release.

Cheat sheets are manually synced by me from http://cheat.errtheblog.com to avoid too much spam, will be able to sync inside the app in the future. For now if you create a cheat sheet on the previously mentioned site, I will pull in new cheats when I send an update to Apple.

I hope to move to a UIWebView soon which will allow much more in the way of formatting. It's a very difficult thing to do for this content though when you have lots of lines that are potentially very long. The previous development version had line wrapping almost every line, was much worse :)

Hope that clears up some of the things mentioned.

You'd probably get a much more polished experience by manually writing each cheat sheet. You'd be able to standardise the formatting and ensure each cheat sheet is useful, relevant and succinct. Currently there's a lot of useless cheat sheets (hobo_template? contains "test", useless! lorem/lorum? you only need one. taxes? this is useless. girlfriends? nothing to do with software!)

Touting "Over 475" isn't anywhere as useful as 10 decently edited cheat sheets. You can always add more languages later when they're done and polished.

"Unable to contact cheat server." was left in from when the app was not offline capable. Any cheats that show that now don't have the data on the device and I would love to know if you run across them so I can fix them.

The "osxbash" cheat sheet has that. Not sure what that cheat sheet would even contain... the same as "bash"?

Pros: - This app has huge potential.

Cons: - No iTunes version (still) for Linux/BSD/non-OSX-or-Windows clients.

  - Thought about Wine but pretty sure it can get behind the curve quick.

  - Went to Apple's 'contact us' page, and searched the page for 'itunes', 'appstore', 'app store', and just for the hell of it: 'linux' and 'bsd'. None of these things got a result.

    - So this is not something you can even ask apple about in any kind of user-friendly way, nevermind that it would not fit into a clear category of the other ways you are presented to contact apple.

So you're sitting at your computer, programming, where manual pages are a keystroke away... and instead of pressing that key, you reach into your pocket, unlock your iphone, buy this app from the app store, and then type the example code on the phone into your app?

I don't get it.

No, you misunderstand. This is for programmers On The Go! This isn't for your lame-duck programmers who sit at a desktop computer all day programming. No. This is for programmers on mountain bikes and skateboard ramps, programmers who need their manuals on a 480 x 320 pixel screen IMMEDIATELY.

If you don't get it then you're just not "cool" as the kids say.

Hmm, at first I saw the title and thought it was an app that would make cheating on tests in class easy (think like the blackjack counting app - could do something like "put the phone in your pocket and shake your leg N times to ask for help with #1, and then get M buzzes back to indicate which answer from fellow students"). I don't condone it, but I bet it would sell well if implemented cleanly.

As it were, this is also a cool app. :)

I'm really liking the minimalism of all of your sites/apps.

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