[FoRK] Leopard scripting

[Justin Mason]

Luis Villa writes:
> On Jan 18, 2008 11:19 AM, Jeff Bone <jbone at place.org> wrote:
> > Have seen several of these, but apparently only bookmarked this one;
> > Ruby,  bigger than 100 lines, but intended as a full local
> > replacement for S3:
> >
> >    http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/parkplace/

It's like S3!  but without the hard "distributed", "redundant" or
"reliable" parts! ;)

> Speaking of Why... has anyone played with/looked at:
> http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes/
> 
> I'm very interested in the notion of Desktop Rails; it seems to me
> that a big part of why desktop applications are dying is that web
> development frameworks just seem much faster on the development side
> (albeit less rich.)

That, plus there's no[*] portability issues -- "write once, run anywhere"
has finally happened; and also, everyone now has multiple machines they
need to access their stuff from (in most cases it's work + home).

([*]: well, *different* portability issues. ;)

--j.