[ANN] nobody knows shoes, in pdf and html

Many hellos. Just a small footnote to add to this vast catalogue of
e-mail. The futile zine Nobody Knows Shoes is today released into
the public domain, as promised.

PDF and HTML versions of the book are here:

  http://hackety.org/press/

Shoes is a tiny toolkit for coding windowing apps in Ruby. We are a
tiny community, which is generally disregarded and rightfully so.
No one likes windowing apps and no one likes small, portable, and
pretty fast libraries. In fact, I think I have just talked myself
out of my own software project.

Well, phooey.

_why

been watching shoes and ruby1.9
shoes+ruby1.9/2.0 would be a killer dev app, imho

now gui programming is fun again :slight_smile:
thanks for shoes why.

kind regards -botp

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On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 3:18 PM, _why <why@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

Shoes is a tiny toolkit for coding windowing apps in Ruby. We are a
tiny community, which is generally disregarded and rightfully so.
No one likes windowing apps and no one likes small, portable, and
pretty fast libraries. In fact, I think I have just talked myself
out of my own software project.

_why wrote:

Many hellos. Just a small footnote to add to this vast catalogue of
e-mail. The futile zine Nobody Knows Shoes is today released into
the public domain, as promised.

PDF and HTML versions of the book are here:

  http://hackety.org/press/

Shoes is a tiny toolkit for coding windowing apps in Ruby. We are a
tiny community, which is generally disregarded and rightfully so.
No one likes windowing apps and no one likes small, portable, and
pretty fast libraries. In fact, I think I have just talked myself
out of my own software project.

Well, phooey.

_why

you sir, are nuts :wink:

Love your work...

Mikkel

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_why wrote:

Many hellos. Just a small footnote to add to this vast catalogue of
e-mail. The futile zine Nobody Knows Shoes is today released into
the public domain, as promised.

PDF and HTML versions of the book are here:

  http://hackety.org/press/

(...)

I just read it and it promises to be great fun. And very goodlooking.

Thanks,

Siep

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_why is not nuts.

He has achieved such a heightened sense of clarity that he has come out the other side and appears to be nuts. This is merely sanity taken to its extreme.

TwP

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On Mar 2, 2008, at 1:26 PM, Mikkel Bruun wrote:

_why wrote:

Many hellos. Just a small footnote to add to this vast catalogue of
e-mail. The futile zine Nobody Knows Shoes is today released into
the public domain, as promised.

PDF and HTML versions of the book are here:

http://hackety.org/press/

Shoes is a tiny toolkit for coding windowing apps in Ruby. We are a
tiny community, which is generally disregarded and rightfully so.
No one likes windowing apps and no one likes small, portable, and
pretty fast libraries. In fact, I think I have just talked myself
out of my own software project.

Well, phooey.

_why

you sir, are nuts :wink:

Oh, thankyou. I'm totally eager for such a day as well. The
changes are not severe at all, so it shouldn't be too distant.

_why

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On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 12:52:18AM +0900, botp wrote:

been watching shoes and ruby1.9
shoes+ruby1.9/2.0 would be a killer dev app, imho

Thanks for the book _why. Is there a place where I could download
hackety hack source? it doesn't work on ubuntu hardy. I see on
http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hacketyhack/ that a version was
planed for the end of 2007, any news about this?

Thanks in advance,

Pat

Sure, well, I've been rewriting H-ety H using Shoes and have been
keeping my work in a private git repo. I just have some work to do
getting Shoes to work smoother on OS X and I hope HH will be out
soon thereafter. I tried the old HH with a group of 11-12 yr old
kids and had bad results, so have had to change quite a few things.

I know it's been eight or nine months since a release, which borders
on vaporous. Very sorry about the lateness.

_why

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On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:18:46AM +0900, Patrick Aljord wrote:

Thanks for the book _why. Is there a place where I could download
hackety hack source? it doesn't work on ubuntu hardy. I see on
http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hacketyhack/ that a version was
planed for the end of 2007, any news about this?

_why wrote:

_why

How do I install gem on shoes? Currently I just install gem on my
current ruby and then copy the folder into the shoes folder and it
works. But how do I use the gem command with shoes and install gem on
it?

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Shin guey Wong wrote:

_why wrote:

_why

How do I install gem on shoes? Currently I just install gem on my
current ruby and then copy the folder into the shoes folder and it
works. But how do I use the gem command with shoes and install gem on
it?

you can install it like this
<code>
Shoes.setup do
  gem 'hpricot'
end
</code>

to know your GEM dir use the irb example found into samples folder
'expert-irb.rb'
then
<code>
require 'rubygems'
GIM_DIR
</code>

and you should know the location of the installed gem in case you are
lost =)

Thank you very much _why .. keep the golden code style

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