2008 in Summary
December
6th
07:59
Inside Shoes 2 (180 words)
The second “stable” release of Shoes has flown. We still have a lot to do. But, hey.
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December
4th
17:29
The Frustrating Magical Aspect (371 words)
While plundering around in the NodeBox forums, I happened upon a very stirring library for creating
November
17th
23:58
Something Like PyArg_ParseTuple For Ruby (438 words)
Calling into Ruby from C is great, but I’ve noticed that I spend a lot of time casting
November
3rd
19:13
Hpricot Strikes Back (774 words)
My my. How the sensationalist press does carry on.
October
6th
17:36
Mixing Our Way Out Of Instance Eval? (1066 words)
The lynchpin of Ruby’s pidgins and so-called DSLs (Douchebaggery as a Second Language)
September
27th
22:29
Textarea Resize And Curly Quotes For Conkeror (436 words)
People say Google Chrome is a step behind Firefox because Firefox has addons.
September
25th
06:33
A Legend Never To Be Solved (1325 words)
I don’t mean to be overly sentimental or maudlin.
September
9th
18:09
Sorting Out Libskia (367 words)
Vladimir Vukićević: Another graphics library, Skia, has recently appeared as part of the Google
August
28th
19:53
The Funny Chip (1086 words)
Henri Bergson: This is just why the tragic poet is so careful to avoid anything calculated to attract
August
15th
12:36
Threaded XMLHttpRequest In Shoes (507 words)
Threads can be tough and don’t suit beginners very well.
August
12th
23:54
Those Vintage P K D Covers (326 words)
It just baffles me. There’s a landslide of interesting Philip K. Dick covers out there.
June
25th
14:31
Calling Cocoa Commandline (743 words)
The euphoria. All of Shoes’ Carbon code is gone, rewritten using entirely Cocoa native code.
June
19th
10:15
Stamping EXEs And DMGs (731 words)
Here’s a brief Ruby script—one that demos Shoes’ events and animation—and
June
12th
12:57
Martin DeMello's Gooey Challenge (867 words)
Martin DeMello: One of the most interesting facets of a desktop GUI system is how easy it makes it to
May
31st
16:09
De-smalling the Built-in Shoes Manual (430 words)
Shoes must cease growing to keep claiming its tinyness. Except for the manual. Let the manual bloat.
May
23rd
13:13
YAML 1.2 Ensconces and Envelopes JSON (452 words)
Hey, some progress. Three-and-a-half years after the working draft of YAML 1.
May
22nd
18:57
The Image Block At The Bottom Of Shoes (532 words)
In Shoes, images have been much as they are in HTML. Generally, a path to the image.
May
9th
14:24
Some Chrome For Pjs (173 words)
So, yeah, Processing.js. Big fans of Pjs in this vicinity.
May
8th
00:18
Clearing Up The Whole Shoes And RubyGems Deal (293 words)
So, I have a matter of Shoes business.
May
5th
11:11
Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strictly Python Places) (1035 words)
Despite all the clicking that has been done on a certain star.
April
22nd
10:44
Making SCUMM Games (436 words)
After three years since their last release, ScummC has hit 0.2.0. And it’s looking really good.
March
20th
19:02
Jason Garber Finishes SuperRedCloth For Me (240 words)
At last, open source works as it should. Certainly, patching is cool. Branching is cool.
March
4th
23:30
The Tiny And Accomplished Lew (286 words)
François Lamotte took some time to e-mail in about his friend 4P8. He thought we’d like this.
March
4th
10:44
Shoes Is Sort Of Making Its Way Through The Linux Packaging Machines (78 words)
Bram Senders has put together a Debian package for Shoes. Available from apt in unstable and testing.
March
2nd
01:30
NKS is OPP (258 words)
As of today, Nobody Knows Shoes doesn’t belong to me any more. I have disowned it.
February
29th
17:36
Conkeror Comes Unstuck (551 words)
The surgery was a success. Conkeror has landed its separation manuever.
February
27th
15:19
DragonFly's Freezer (546 words)
People tend to dismiss DragonFlyBSD as the pipe dream of Matt Dillon, discounting all the work Matt
January
26th
15:10
Smudgy Residues (165 words)
Oh nice, you can now preview the chapters for The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan and
January
18th
13:29
The Lecturing Of Dr. Plainfield's Trilby (225 words)
Plainfield: This could lead to… tiny hatreds… building up little by little…
January
13th
12:18
Not Too Far Away (142 words)
The Io language blog has a nice example of using self-modifying code to implement constants.
January
10th
15:47
Lazy Bricks, Lazy Mortar (649 words)
Here’s a bit more Io. Don’t feel obligated to spread this stuff around.