ShoesFest Today!
reddit.com     Jul 25, 2008          

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: < 8 AM New York / 5 AM San Francisco / 9 PM Tokyo / 3 PM Amsterdam > 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. This will allow us to test, document, and file bugs on how the various Shoes features work on the different supported platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac), in preparation for our next major release on July 31st, 2008. No Ruby — or programming — experience is required; we’d love to find out how easy it is for novices to learn Shoes! Of course, if you happen to know the Ruby C API, expert help is always appreciated. The primary interaction will... [read full story]                    


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