Appcipia.com

What is Appcipia? Step1

Book of Useful Mathematica Recipes

In Print Form and Down-loadable code from O'Reilly

So Web 1.0!

What is Appcipia? Step 2

Website of Useful Mathematica Recipes

Users can contribute, modify and rate.

Web 1.9

What is Appcipia? Step 3

Social Network for Scientists and Engineers

Members can develop technical applications and share them.

Support many programming languages

Very Web 2.0!

What is Appcipia? Step 4

Build a Platform (PAAS)

Platform supports Web Application Development and Deployment.

Lower the barrier for technical professionals

Many uses beyond Social Networking

What is Appcipia? Appcipia is a Web 2.0 development platform

hosted as a web application. Appcipia is a REST-full Web Service Appcipia is Polyglot

Mathematica Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, Actionscript Etc.

Appcipia allows you to deploy web applications on : social networks, blogs, web sites, and more.

Use Cases Research Paper with Embedded Application Online Book about Programming with Live

Examples Mathematica Blog With Inline Demonstrations Social Network where users share Apps You Own Web Site With Pay to Use Apps Mashup Platform – Wolfram Alpha, Etc. More...

How is Appcipia different than X?

X = Wolfram Demonstration Site Demonstrations are limited Require Mathematica Run-time (Player)

X = Web Mathematica Requires your own web server Requires web development expertise

X = Wolfram Alpha Appcipia Apps can use it!

How is Appcipia different than X?

X = Open Source Users need to download on each machine Developers need strong software development skill set Web Apps are more useful

X = Facebook Applications Tied to a single social network Geared to fun and games But the idea is kinda of on the right track for understanding part

Appcipia

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Appcipia.com Web Server(s)

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Enabling Technologies

Cloud Platforms (Rackspace Cloud, Amazon EC2, etc.)

JQuery – AJAX, Web UI Widgets. Minimal Pain GIT – Distributed Content Addressable Version

Control System Mathematica Web Services – Alpha, etc.