Latest News >> 2008-08-06

Well, I’ll be at DefCon this year, and I always try to do something fun for the conferences I attend.

2008-08-01

Well looks like my rant about the state of open source feed readers hit some sites, so I should put in a few clarifications so people understand what I was looking for more specifically. I’ll do it by answering several of the questions people sent me.

2008-07-20

RubyFringe was my last Ruby conference and it was the best conference to go out on. Everything about RubyFringe was great. It was well organized, contained eclectic talks, and supported the weirdness that’s usually hidden at the other conferences.

2008-06-25

I’ve been completely fed up with news/feed/rss/atom readers these days. I use Linux as my primary operating system, and I only have a few feeds that I want to rip through quick so I can get to reading the content. Yet, trying to find a reader that doesn’t suck donkey balls has been a chore.

GIG—GUI Generator for FOX

I really like the FOX GUI Toolki which is probably the very best C++ GUI toolkit out there. It has a rich set of components, a really good component messaging (that doesn’t require separate slow ass compiles like Qt MOC), reasonable APIs, simple GUI construction, and a reasonable look. It’s also missing a GUI builder. I whipped up GIG while working on something else (since dead) so that I could generate my GUIs. GIG is also dead, but when it was working it used Lua to build and generate the FOX code needed to implement a GUI. I found I could crank out a FOX GUI really quick with it. Alas, like most of my projects it fell into bit rot.

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