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Shoes, a Tiny Toolkit for Making Web-like Desktop Apps

posted by rajbot on August 17th, 2007

Shoes is a new project by the infamous why:

Shoes is a very informal GUI toolkit. It’s for making regular old windowing apps. It’s a blend of my favorite things from the Web, some Ruby style, and a sprinkling of cross-platform widgets. (More in the README.)

Check out the book reader tutorial on Hackety.org

simple screenshots:

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August 17th, 2007 | 8:38 pm

it’s friday night and i’m playing with hackety hack – i am nerdy beyond hope! although, i do have a secret crush on mr. why-the-lucky-stiff :-)

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