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by Steven Gibson.
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Tested shell commands and rwddemo on XP today. It is gratefying that they just work. After I did all the development on Linux. Now if only I had a Mac to test it on.
More development of rwdtinker. http://rubyforge.org/projects/rwdapplications/
I have accidentely stumbled on some very interesting ways to develop software for RubyWebDialogs.
I split the source code and the gui code into atomic parts and use init.rb to merge the parts together.
With the newest framework I am using the last couple of days, I am able to ship a "plugin" or as I calling them "applet" that can be dropped into a directory and installed automatically. Also uninstalled. I am calling this framework Tinker, so the core program I call rwdtinker. My wife, Charlotte. suggested the name. It relates to the the "Tinker Toys" that has blocks and dowls and shapes that can be assembled by children and take different shapes. Without the word toy, it reminds us if the older English meaning of "a person who repairs pots and household devices by soldering and hammering.
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