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Re: Show HN: kenHub - anatomy learning platform

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Post by donebizkit » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 5:49 PM UTC

gingerlime wrote: post #19

donebizkit wrote: post #18

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Thanks for the detailed list. I have many follow ups but I don't wanna bother you much so I narrowed it down to two: 1- What percentage is Twitter Bootstrap driving your UI? In other words was it just a plug and play or did you have to overwrite a lot of js/css to get what you want? 2- How is Redis performing? (I am debating if I should use for my own side project) P.S. I hope that you have your own closed office for…

I'm not the best person to answer about bootstrap on our team, but I'll ask my colleague to add a comment about this later. Redis is fantastic. Perhaps I should also mention we use ohm as an ORM, which is very neat. I wouldn't dream managing our particular app without it. But it's not exactly fire-and-forget. Firstly, modelling your data is very important, or you can end up with lots of stuff taking precious memory.…

It does. Thanks again for the info. Cheers!

Re: Show HN: kenHub - anatomy learning platform

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Post by donebizkit » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 6:10 PM UTC

NielsH wrote: post #20

donebizkit wrote: post #18

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Thanks for the detailed list. I have many follow ups but I don't wanna bother you much so I narrowed it down to two: 1- What percentage is Twitter Bootstrap driving your UI? In other words was it just a plug and play or did you have to overwrite a lot of js/css to get what you want? 2- How is Redis performing? (I am debating if I should use for my own side project) P.S. I hope that you have your own closed office for…

Hello, this is Niels from kenHub. Will try answering your first question. We used bootstrap as a starting point and - to be honest - at that point it looked like this. But over time we changed and added more and more of our own code. But I would say it is quite marginal still if you look at what bootstrap provides. I like and we still use twitter bootstrap for the grid, the readability of the text and the basic layou…

I see. It seems to me the advantage of using bootstrap is that the final product has a look and feel that's familiar to twitter users. Therefore, it's implicitly comfortable and intuitive to use. Thanks Niel and good luck with kenHub

Re: Show HN: kenHub - anatomy learning platform

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Post by jeffcoat » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 12:19 AM UTC

gingerlime wrote: post #3

would really appreciate some feedback / suggestions / ideas. I know probably most people on HN are not really into anatomy. Nevertheless, it's nice to hear different perspectives. We're not going to be the next facebook, but we really hope to improve how students learn anatomy.

Great demo.

The last question, where I had to name and spell the part, caught me by surprise -- the difficultly level had, up until then, been increasing very slowly, and that felt like a huge jump.

Wishlist feature: Speech recognition, in the sense of having to name a part out loud.