All the people on the review panel are men. Could be better.
The Ubuntu App Showdown
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Re: The Ubuntu App Showdown
#12Here's my submission:
HumanTask is a personal task manager for humans - http://srirangan.net/2012-06-humantask-is-a-personal-task-ma...
Re: The Ubuntu App Showdown
#13They talk about Rapid Application Development, and it makes me sad. It makes me sad because I still haven't found a RAD tool that works on the same level of Visual Basic.
Forgetting all the things Visual Basic did wrong, the biggest thing it did right was the UI builder. When you put a button on the screen, it wrote the code for you. When you put a text box on the screen, it wrote the code for you. When you double click the button in the designer, it takes you to the code for that button. You select "onClick" and type "textbox1 = "Hello world!". Save and run, click the button, and the textbox says "Hello world!".
VB made UI easy. Glade is nice, but it still doesn't come close to the ease of use that VB brought to the market. I don't know of anything else that has since. VB was a ecosystem that let accountants build software. With all the bad that comes with the good, this is still unmatched as far as my research has shown me.
Re: The Ubuntu App Showdown
#14They talk about Rapid Application Development, and it makes me sad. It makes me sad because I still haven't found a RAD tool that works on the same level of Visual Basic. Forgetting all the things Visual Basic did wrong, the biggest thing it did right was the UI builder. When you put a button on the screen, it wrote the code for you. When you put a text box on the screen, it wrote the code for you. When you double cl…
REALBasic maybe? I know a couple of companies that use it and they seem to like it.
Re: The Ubuntu App Showdown
#15They talk about Rapid Application Development, and it makes me sad. It makes me sad because I still haven't found a RAD tool that works on the same level of Visual Basic. Forgetting all the things Visual Basic did wrong, the biggest thing it did right was the UI builder. When you put a button on the screen, it wrote the code for you. When you put a text box on the screen, it wrote the code for you. When you double cl…
There is Lazarus I stumbled upon once. Tried it a little and seems to do things quite much like VB. Its basically a Delphi clone I guess. But damnit, who wants to use Pascal!
BTW how about Mono? Isn't that supposed to be .NET clone?
Re: The Ubuntu App Showdown
#16They talk about Rapid Application Development, and it makes me sad. It makes me sad because I still haven't found a RAD tool that works on the same level of Visual Basic. Forgetting all the things Visual Basic did wrong, the biggest thing it did right was the UI builder. When you put a button on the screen, it wrote the code for you. When you put a text box on the screen, it wrote the code for you. When you double cl…
I wonder if the reason for that is the move to the web - the drag and drop & generate code paradigm doesn't work so well with the classic HTML/CSS/JS combo(although they tried with .NET).
Maybe in a parallel universe where HTML wasn't the basis for web apps - where perhaps we're finally heading for now - we'd have seen instead leaps in RAD tool development.
Re: The Ubuntu App Showdown
#17What are the judging criterion for the contest and who judges?
If you read the post you will see the list of judges and criteria.
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#18They talk about Rapid Application Development, and it makes me sad. It makes me sad because I still haven't found a RAD tool that works on the same level of Visual Basic. Forgetting all the things Visual Basic did wrong, the biggest thing it did right was the UI builder. When you put a button on the screen, it wrote the code for you. When you put a text box on the screen, it wrote the code for you. When you double cl…
There is Lazarus I stumbled upon once. Tried it a little and seems to do things quite much like VB. Its basically a Delphi clone I guess. But damnit, who wants to use Pascal! BTW how about Mono? Isn't that supposed to be .NET clone?
Mono recreates the code of Visual Basic, but doesn't have the VB UI builder (last time I tried it was in mid-2011, might have changed).
Re: The Ubuntu App Showdown
#19All the people on the review panel are men. Could be better.
Ubuntu could do better here to have a more representative voting panel. 0% female judges is pretty bad.
Re: The Ubuntu App Showdown
#20They talk about Rapid Application Development, and it makes me sad. It makes me sad because I still haven't found a RAD tool that works on the same level of Visual Basic. Forgetting all the things Visual Basic did wrong, the biggest thing it did right was the UI builder. When you put a button on the screen, it wrote the code for you. When you put a text box on the screen, it wrote the code for you. When you double cl…
Check out microsofts "lightSwitch" for a RAD.