The Shoes toolkit has a nice rich text format support. At first sight it might seem that Shoes text support borrows a lot from HTML, for example the most commonly used text block is para. In addition to the paragraph text block, you can use banner, title, subtitle, tagline, caption, and inscription.
Shoes.app do
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I am going to cunningly place a copy of Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister on my boss’ desk. Peopleware is an insightful book on software project management and many of the advice on Peopleware resonated well with me. The undertone of the book is aligned with eXtreme [...]
Just finished reading Hugh MacLeod gapingvoid manifesto, How To Be Creative. I broke down his manifesto to the following quotes.
The more original your idea is, the less good advice other people will be able to give you.
It was so liberating to be doing something that didn’t have to impress anybody, for a change.
Your idea [...]
Google is perpetually busy at work developing a growing number of online applications. Some Google applications found immediate and global success while others have simply not. Since online applications don’t have the same release cycle that shrink wrap software does, all of Google’s applications are labeled beta. This simply means that the [...]
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JRuby: The power of Java and Ruby, presented by Ola Bini.
I work for ThoughtWorks Studios, and recently published the book Practical JRuby on Rails at APress. I’m very interested in Artificial Intelligence, Lisp, Ruby and the fuzzy lines between languages…
Ruby 1.9, presented by Yukihiro Matsumoto
Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matsumoto Yukihiro, a.k.a. Matz, born 14 April 1965) is [...]
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I went through a bit of a scare with my blog today. All of a sudden I keep getting a barrage of emails informing me that my new WordPress blog had been successfully set up at Juixe TechKnow. I was like, WTF! I immediately emailed the technical support for my hosting provider [...]
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