Tracksters, This is huge. This is bigger than the biggest thing you can think of.
Slingshot: <http://joyeur.com/2007/03/22/joyent-slingshot> It was announced a month or more ago, and I thought at the time that it looked very cool. When they announced that Open Source apps would be able to use Slingshot free of charge, I got even more interested, but I didn't want to say anything about it here until I'd tried it - no need to get everyone excited for no reason. You can read the page linked above for more details, but basically, Slingshot is a framework to allow you to run Rails applications as if they were native applications. You can run them seamlessly offline, then sync data to a server when online. You can drag and drop stuff, just like a native application, and (almost best of all, as far as I'm concerned), you can distribute applications for Mac and Windows with everything included: just one application package that you drag to /Applications, double click to run and go. Pretty smooth, no? They released it today, and after only about five minutes of messing about, I produced this: <http://www.rousette.org.uk/projects/images/uploads/movies/ TracksonSlingshot.mov> I haven't tried syncing or online/offline mode, or drag and drop, but it works, it's snappy, and it was dead easy. Yum. I think we're going to have some fun with this. cheers, bsag -- but she's a girl - the weblog of a female geek http://www.rousette.org.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Tracks-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rousette.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/tracks-discuss
