I am presenting at RubyConf 2008.
Topic: Simplifying Desktop Development with Glimmer
Description:
Ruby has gained a lot of popularity in the last few years, especially in web development, due to the
infamous Ruby on Rails framework. However, it has not gathered the same momentum in building desktop
applications despite the fact that a number of desktop application frameworks exist out there.
There is still a need for a Ruby desktop development framework that satisfies all of these goals
sufficiently and reliably:
# Platform-independence
# Native widget support
# Industry-strength and reliability
# Strong community support
# Ease of use
Enter Glimmer; a new Eclipse open-source project that leverages the Ruby language and Eclipse SWT
library to enable easy and efficient authoring of platform-independent desktop user-interfaces. It
comes with a UI authoring DSL and built-in data-binding support to greatly facilitate writing
maintainable and testable desktop application code.
In this presentation, I will introduce Glimmer, provide a quick tutorial for its syntax and
paradigms, demonstrate some applications, and explain how to test-drive a Glimmer application by
following the Model-View-Presenter pattern.
2 comments:
Glimmer is really exciting (just any Eclipse scripting initiative), great to hear about it from time to time.
BTW, what's the story with the acceptance in Eclipse? Will there be some content here http://www.eclipse.org/glimmer any soon?
Hi gergely, I am back on track in the project, and am in the process of preparing Glimmer's code to be committed into the Eclipse SVN repository. Once the code is committed, I will blog about it.
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