A simple but special Redis Web Client
It was a while ago when I wrote my last blog post. So let me take the chance to write something about a very simple piece of software which started as a fun project of mine. Let's do it a bit different this time. I will show you the results first and then I will explain what's special about this application:
This looks very basic, right? What's special about it? So here is the story behind it:
It all started a few weeks ago when I decide to buy an iPad Pro (11 inches). The motivation was indeed not to use it as a development machine. My current role requires to draw some diagrams and to explain stuff a bit more vizually. So the iPad Pro seemed to be a nice device for such a purpose.
Being a techie, I wondered a bit which kind of development can be done on it and I started to install some tools for experimenting with them:
Especially Pythonista is a great tool. Here a screen shot of it:
It all went a bit "crazy" when I went to my barber to get my beard cut. Now my Turkish barber is a very good one which means that he is very busy (seems this is a pattern across all industries - let it be IT-specialists or barbers). So I had to wait for about 2 hours to get a shave. As I already expected some waiting time, I took my iPad Pro with me (for i.e. reading a book). Holding it in my hands, I was then thinking why not trying to drive this 'How to develop on this device?' idea forward. But which kind of application should I develop? So one of the thoughts was to be able to demonstrate Redis (https://redis.io/) itself on the iPad. Wouldn't it be cool to
Given the fact that I invested some time to write this article, my opinion is clearly: "Yes, it would be cool!". However, if you are still wondering "Why the hell should I want to develop on an iPad Pro?" then I guess the answer is: "Because you can!" ;-) So this is more a fun project, whereby it might be a good basic example for:
So have fun!
Ah before I forget it: If you are searching for a very basic Redis Web Client or if you are interested in to take a look at the source code, then the source code can be found here for now.
This looks very basic, right? What's special about it? So here is the story behind it:
It all started a few weeks ago when I decide to buy an iPad Pro (11 inches). The motivation was indeed not to use it as a development machine. My current role requires to draw some diagrams and to explain stuff a bit more vizually. So the iPad Pro seemed to be a nice device for such a purpose.
Being a techie, I wondered a bit which kind of development can be done on it and I started to install some tools for experimenting with them:
- Working Copy: A Git client
- Pythonista: A Python IDE
- StaSh: A shell for Pythonista which allows you to use packages via 'pip'
- Blink: A CLI with an SSH client
- VNC Viewer: Access the screen of your computer (which is running a VNC server)
Especially Pythonista is a great tool. Here a screen shot of it:
It all went a bit "crazy" when I went to my barber to get my beard cut. Now my Turkish barber is a very good one which means that he is very busy (seems this is a pattern across all industries - let it be IT-specialists or barbers). So I had to wait for about 2 hours to get a shave. As I already expected some waiting time, I took my iPad Pro with me (for i.e. reading a book). Holding it in my hands, I was then thinking why not trying to drive this 'How to develop on this device?' idea forward. But which kind of application should I develop? So one of the thoughts was to be able to demonstrate Redis (https://redis.io/) itself on the iPad. Wouldn't it be cool to
- Just connect a small device with a Pen to a big screen (i.e. projector via USB-C, screen sharing)
- Explain some concepts by just drawing like on a whiteboard
- Demonstrate some Redis basics by being connected to a Redis Cloud instance (You can get a 30MB database for free here: https://redislabs.com/redis-enterprise/essentials/)
Given the fact that I invested some time to write this article, my opinion is clearly: "Yes, it would be cool!". However, if you are still wondering "Why the hell should I want to develop on an iPad Pro?" then I guess the answer is: "Because you can!" ;-) So this is more a fun project, whereby it might be a good basic example for:
- Understanding some Redis basics
- Using a very popular Redis Python client (https://github.com/andymccurdy/redis-py)
- Understanding some Jinja2 (http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/2.10/) HTML templating basics
- Learning how to use some Flask basics (http://flask.pocoo.org/) for building a simple web application
So have fun!
Ah before I forget it: If you are searching for a very basic Redis Web Client or if you are interested in to take a look at the source code, then the source code can be found here for now.