I've been thinking for a while about building a simple wargame as a way to try out various new technologies I'm experimenting with. A gamer friend of mine recently told me about Full Thrust, which seems like an ideal candidate. My initial thought is to implement a RESTful back-end using Google App Engine (since it is hosted for free), and perhaps attempt simple front ends in SproutCore, Shoes, HotCocoa, and the iPhone SDK.
ShoesFest 2008: Getting Started
A big thank you and welcome to everyone who's joining the Shoes community for ShoesFest 2008. On Friday, July 11th and 25th (local times vary), we are encouraging people with or without programming experience to join us in creating and running Shoes programs on Mac, Windows, and Linux so they can email us with feedback about: crashers... Continue Reading →
7/11 & 7/25 ShoesFests with Why The Lucky Stiff
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.
