Proposal: Tying your shoes

[Murray Steele]

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.

Cheers,

Muz

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Shoes: http://shoooes.net/
My own awful efforts: http://github.com/h-lame/lruggery/tree/master/names_from_a_hat
wxRuby: http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl
fox: http://www.fxruby.org/
ruby cocoa: http://rubycocoa.sourceforge.net/HomePage

[Dan Webb]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Murray Steele <murray...@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.

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Dan Webb
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skype: danwrong

[James Adam]

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.

[Roland Swingler]

> 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.

Roland

[hors...@googlemail.com]

+1, I'd love to hear something on Shoes. I've not played as much as
I'd have liked so the inspiration would be good.

Cheers,
Paul