The Sparky Labs

DiSpeed 0.1

max — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:58:44 +0000

In order to get started, I wanted to do a small application first. Something simple, just to get the ball rolling. I decided to write an application that, given an RSS feed URL, displays the titles of the posts.

So, here it is, my first Labs application. Please note that it is quite crude. Passing a non-rss link crashes the application. Also, the list doesn’t look very pretty, but hey! It works!

The code is available at dispeed.

GUI Programming : The Beginning

max — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:19:03 +0000

After months, or perhaps even years, of searching, I have finally found a decent UI “kit” to do RAD (Rapid Application Development). The language I picked was Ruby (no surprises there) and among Qt, GTK+ and WxWidgets, it was WxRuby (the Ruby bindings for WxWidgets) that caught my fancy. The other two seem a bit too complex for my taste. So, here we go! Watch this space for my experiments with WxRuby.