Desktop Development with Glimmer
summary
Glimmer is a Ruby DSL over SWT that claims to give native widgets, an HTML-like UI authoring syntax and one-line table binding that replaces ~50+ lines of Java boilerplate. It uses Ruby + SWT (Eclipse/Aptana), moved from RubyForge to Eclipse, and emphasizes data binding and MVP so presenters are fully unit-testable. Demos include a contact manager bound to a collection (filters work) and a Tic‑Tac‑Toe game that runs and has near-100% test coverage.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:56Outline
- 3:33Why Glimmer
- 8:09Glimmer DSL
- 10:08Hello World
- 11:13Goals for Glimmer
- 12:10Glimmer Basics
- 13:28Demo
- 16:33Data Binding
- 22:58Data Binding Demo
- 26:26Model View Presenter
- 28:28MVP
- 29:55Testing
- 33:28Game Demo
- 40:36Recap
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