proteusEdit logo revealed…
I’m pretty excited about the new software project, proteusEdit, and as soon as I thought of the name I went and hammered out a logo. Proteus was a Greek God that was able to change his form, which is perfect because the idea behind this software is that it’s adaptable to be useful for multiple tasks.
So the shapes behind the name are literally of a shape changing, and the text of the logo uses two letters from the Greek alphabet. The ‘E’ is an epsilon (technically, it’s a large lower-case epsilon, so it’s [more] clear it’s a greek letter) and the ‘p’ is a rho.
Well, rho is actually the Greek ‘r’, but I’m using it so people will know how to pronounce it, and since pi doesn’t have a latin equivalent that can be typed into a search engine. Also we figured there was less of a chance of somebody pronouncing it “rroteus,” which just sounds wrong, not bad — than “pi-roteus” or worse “pah-roteus”, both of which are teeth-gratingly awful.
October 1st, 2003 at 11:53 am
So what exactly is ProteusEdit anyway? You said it can be adaptable, but didn’t really say what its main purpose is. Is it just a text editor that can be used for html and programming? If so, that sounds pretty cool, because most of those are pretty crappy that I’ve seen.
October 1st, 2003 at 11:54 am
Also, some of the text won’t show up on the comment page until I highlight it… I don’t know if that’s a bug on my end or not, but its not doing it on other pages. Nice blog site though!
October 1st, 2003 at 2:30 pm
You know, I’ve noticed that too, about the text needing highlighting. A very odd problem. I’ll have to look over the code that the blog uses and see if I can make some corrections….
proteusEdit is, yeah, basically your typically programmer’s editor plus many cool features. I agree, most suck! It’s not WYSIWYG (ala Dreamweaver) but just text, with some embellishments. For example, it won’t have the stupid text-based FTP that you see in some editors, but will have a full-fledged GUI FTP program internal to the software. It will also have things like in-line calculator features, character map charts, reference guides for things like HTML, CSS, and Javascripit, and will have several syntax tools ala Visual Studio.
But I can’t give away too much right now…!