PaintCode is meant to replace the need for images by giving you the equivalent code for basic images. Their initial claim to fame with version 1 was being "Retina ready," since the images are drawn in code instead of PNGs. It is a very good way to learn Quartz and CoreGraphics, but not necessarily the best way to learn ObjC.
I used PaintCode in a project I worked once, and it was a lot more work than I wanted for just asking my designer to give me an @2x image. If you work with designers who do vector art already, you're not going to gain much. The StyleKit class is slick, though, so I may revisit this once again.
I am wondering if PaintCode would allow my designer to draw up a complete UI - e.g. all screens so I could just use that.
What I do now is I get the designs in some sort of intermediary format, e.g. InVision or whatever, then I have to go and measure everything and all the pixel distances, then re-create it in Interface Builder. It's retarded.
The greatest benefit I can see with PaintCode is the ability to make parameterise-able images with expressions. Creating cool little dynamic vector images that can be driven through your code (gestures, accelerometer, etc) seems really nice.
EdTech is booming, and there is a lot of money to be made. Google Apps for Business is booming. Google Apps for Education, likewise, will boom in the same way.
If you seriously think Google Drive or a Google Docs is going anywhere because your precious Google Reader disappeared, you're nuts.
And that was kind of my point. This would be much, much bigger of a deal than Google Reader. The may not shut Drive/Docs down, but they could fundamentally change what they are offering under this Classroom umbrella. Or change pricing structures. They did this with "Google Apps for your Domain".
It looks like it's just scraping the portfolio pages of most of these, and most portfolio directories list nothing more than a company's name and website.
That said, doesn't AngelList or CrunchBase have something like this already? (or at least an API to extract more information from)
Now, it would be fun to run predictions on the portofolio and investment data. Predict what companies will get investment next, what domains are hot, and so on. Who knows, you could even make money from this.
I do the exact same, but with the added step of adding the backup passwords for Google/Dropbox to the extra text fields you can add in 1Password. (For the very rare case of "I lost my phone/ipad, am not home for the physical backup codes, but still have access to 1Password on my Macbook")
My 5 year old macbook pro handles the development version of jquery (10,309 loc) with syntax highlighting just fine. It can be (a bit) janky when scrolling through the whole thing, but it's not very noticeable. Local edits / search are as fast as vim.
Can I make an entire working app using this, or is it only meant for prototyping/mock-ups?