Anyone that's been to an LRUG event where I can possibly shoe-horn in a random element will have been utterly amazed at the awesome things I can make Shoes do. I'm proposing that if folk are interested I can take a month or so to learn Shoes even more and regale you all with tales of my derring-do and shoes-related witchcraft. Or, just a quick intro into Shoes, which ever seems of most interest to the group.
That's the pitch for an 8 min talk. Read on brave reader for a longer suggestion that you will have to read, if reading be your thing!!
In a former life I was a wxPython coder, and in the Jurassic age I even dabbled in C++ and Java desktop app building. I could expand my horizons (and timeslot) and look into other desktop toolkits for Ruby (fox, wxRuby, rubycocoa, etc...) and present something along those lines. I'm not terribly sure what would make such a talk fun or even coherent. If people are interested I would totally need help putting together an outline, even if only to focus my research.
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Murray Steele <murray.ste...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's the pitch for an 8 min talk. Read on brave reader for a longer > suggestion that you will have to read, if reading be your thing!!
+1 for any or all of this. Desktop apps with ruby is one of those things that I'd love to get into but never seem to devote the time to learn.
I think this would be interesting. I often hate that all development seems to be web focussed. Can we come up with a good example - maybe build a little Ruby tool in a couple of different gui frameworks? How about a Ruby twitter posting tool or something trivial like that (posting only, not displaying tweets, that'd be too complicated).
If required, I can contribute my "ruby opengl" skills.
> Anyone that's been to an LRUG event where I can possibly shoe-horn > in a random element will have been utterly amazed at the awesome > things I can make Shoes do. I'm proposing that if folk are > interested I can take a month or so to learn Shoes even more and > regale you all with tales of my derring-do and shoes-related > witchcraft. Or, just a quick intro into Shoes, which ever seems of > most interest to the group.
> That's the pitch for an 8 min talk. Read on brave reader for a > longer suggestion that you will have to read, if reading be your > thing!!
> In a former life I was a wxPython coder, and in the Jurassic age I > even dabbled in C++ and Java desktop app building. I could expand > my horizons (and timeslot) and look into other desktop toolkits for > Ruby (fox, wxRuby, rubycocoa, etc...) and present something along > those lines. I'm not terribly sure what would make such a talk fun > or even coherent. If people are interested I would totally need > help putting together an outline, even if only to focus my research.
> I often hate that all development seems to be web focussed.
Totally agree - it would be nice to see more fun things to do with ruby and less rails/merb/whatever talks at Ruby Manor IMHO.
So I'm interested in hearing more about Shoes or more generally GUI development with ruby. I don't know much about the subject, so 8 min intro / 30 min intro + (more detail on shoes || intros to other gui frameworks) all sound interesting.
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:52 AM, James Adam <ja...@lazyatom.com> wrote: > Yeah - screw the web! > I think this would be interesting. I often hate that all development seems > to be web focussed. Can we come up with a good example - maybe build a > little Ruby tool in a couple of different gui frameworks? How about a Ruby > twitter posting tool or something trivial like that (posting only, not > displaying tweets, that'd be too complicated). > If required, I can contribute my "ruby opengl" skills. > On 24 Sep 2008, at 11:43, Murray Steele wrote:
> Hi all,
> Anyone that's been to an LRUG event where I can possibly shoe-horn in a > random element will have been utterly amazed at the awesome things I can > make Shoes do. I'm proposing that if folk are interested I can take a month > or so to learn Shoes even more and regale you all with tales of my > derring-do and shoes-related witchcraft. Or, just a quick intro into Shoes, > which ever seems of most interest to the group.
> That's the pitch for an 8 min talk. Read on brave reader for a longer > suggestion that you will have to read, if reading be your thing!!
> In a former life I was a wxPython coder, and in the Jurassic age I even > dabbled in C++ and Java desktop app building. I could expand my horizons > (and timeslot) and look into other desktop toolkits for Ruby (fox, wxRuby, > rubycocoa, etc...) and present something along those lines. I'm not > terribly sure what would make such a talk fun or even coherent. If people > are interested I would totally need help putting together an outline, even > if only to focus my research.
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