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Today is ShoesFest and I am going to be trying to learn more about Ruby and Shoes but at the same time I will be hacking away at JavaScript and Java, improving Sandals.

That's the big surprise: Sandals. Sandals is going to be a clone of the Shoes toolkit except it will use a Java back-end named BeachHouse. The primary reason for this is because I need to practice my Java'ing, and the secondary reason is that I hope to eventually have JRuby and Jython using BeachHouse. So BeachHouse can be found in the beachhouse/ sub-directory of the Sandals source code package.

Unfortunately, Sandals uses Java's Swing components for some parts but I'm going to try and code up my own drawing methods for the tricky things that Shoes can do. We'll see how that goes later on today.

Happy Shoes hackin'

Links:

• Shoes source code
• Sandals and BeachHouse source code
• Common Questions about Shoes and ShoesFest answered

I have taken the last two days off as a break from writing Java and JavaScript, and finally took a proper look at Squeak. It is impressive, and similar to working in Emacs in some ways (though much cooler).

The greatest feature of Squeak, and Emacs (and Lisps), is that the documentation for the language and environment is always around and accessible. If I don't know how a function works in Emacs or which methods an object has in Squeak, I can look it up while working in them. This has saved me from asking many stupid questions on the #emacs and #squeak IRC channels, heh.

Anyway, the break was needed because JavaScript reminded me of Scheme, and I had forgotten how horrible coding in Java can be (e.g. RedundantType x = new RedundantType...). Squeak's user interfaces may inspire Sandals in some ways, we shall see.

Check out the Squeak Language Reference

Lying on the beach,
Sun cooking my bacon,
Putting on sandals, sifting sand,
I'm building a beach house today.

Oh, the ocean glows.
Can you see it now?
Guitars, surf boards, dancing people!
Party time on Java island!