why the lucky stiff and friends invite all interested Ruby hackers -- and wannabe hackers -- to join them for two 24-hour ShoesFests: Friday, July 11th noon GMT to Saturday, July 12th noon GMT Friday, July 25th noon GMT to Saturday, July 26th noon GMT The goal of these events is to write and share fun little applications using Shoes, a clever little cross-platform GUI toolkit written in Ruby.
Building a GUI for MacPorts
In a fit of enthusiasm/hubris, I volunteered to be a mentor for MacPorts participation in the Google Summer of Code. Specifically, I'm taking on the issue of Graphical User Interfaces, because I once wrote one for DarwinPorts (the predecessor to MacPorts. Unfortunately, the code seems to be long gone; FreeBSD mirrored the dp-cocoa and PortsManager projects, but all the folders appear to be empty.... Continue Reading →
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