July 2008 Archives

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

The following is a snippet for LaTeX mode in Emacs. The snippet uses the wonderful YASnippet package and inserts the date of the poem being written and a tiny bit of LaTeX around it.

;; LaTeX snippets
(yas/define-snippets
  'latex-mode ; Snippet is available when in LaTeX mode
  '(
    ("poem" ; Keyword that will trigger the snippet
     ; The snippet itself
     ; (Each newline can be replaced with \n to make the snippet fit on one line)
     "\\begin{verse}
\\poemtitle{${1:untitled}}
% Written on ${2:$(format-time-string \"%e %B %Y\")}
$0

\\end{verse}
"
     "begin verse ..." ; Name of the snippet
     nil)
  )
)