Will he finally start wearing Shoes?

Posted by Luke Bayes Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:33:00 GMT

Those of you that know me know – I wear flip flops.

I wear flip flops all the time.

I wear flip flops to business meetings, interviews, first dates, fancy clubs, I mean everywhere.

I wear flip flops even when it’s a rainy, windy, San Francisco, 40-degree, summer day!

I suppose you can take the boy out of Florida, but, well, youknowhowitgoes….

In addition to the cold toes, it now looks like there might be another good reason to wear Shoes.

Why the Lucky Stiff of Ruby fame has come out with a new (and not-quite-ready) cross-platform, native component, open-source, GUI toolkit called Shoes.

I’ve been spending an awful lot of time lately thinking about this problem. By lately, I mean something like the past 10 years. I’m definitely excited to look more closely at this project as he’s claiming support for all kinds of media, drawing apis and even native components.

I’ll be looking into this Shoes-thing more in the coming weeks and I’ll be sure to let you know what I find.

In unrelated non-technical, but still somehow nerdy news, I may have found a new favorite musician and music site today.

Check out muxtape which is a fantastic exercise in clean, semantic, UI for media (I dare you to view source).

Be sure to listen to the Kimya Dawson track at the bottom of the link above.

Nice.