The plans for the JavaScripter’s guide to GNOME 3. (or the cookbook as I call my project now) are advancing. The initial roadmap was layed this morning with Cosimo Cecci. Looks like I shall first dive into GNOME, explore the platform, read a lot of code and try to identify some patterns which are more common or important than others. Based on my views I will make a draft of what should be included in the cookbook.
On Tuesday I participated in Helsinki’s first JSmeetup. The thing that suprised me a lot was the fact that nearly no one knew of the possibility to write programs for GNOME with JavaScript. I promised to give a small presentation about the subject in February when my cookbook is looking a bit better. Making all the different possibilities known to developers out there is an important task we have to deal with.
First week on work is finally happening and I’m happy to work with this project. Taking a plunge to GNOME with a wide smile on my face!
Nice! I can’t wait for this. I’ve gotten more heavily into JavaScrip the past few years and now I finally switched to GNOME 3. I’m kind of eager to start writing/improving extensions but had a hard time finding in-depth documentation
Sounds great! Looking forward to it
I think this is a awesome project !!!!
I think one a lot of the GNOME 3 haters fail to see the potential of a desktop powered by Javascript and CSS
I think I should stalk.err..follow you on google+ so I know about these conferences and try to join. Willl help I think to have more GNOME presence there.
The next HelsinkiJS will be on Jan 11th: http://lanyrd.com/2012/helsinkijs-january/
Awesome! It really needs to be done.
What about gnome apps in CoffeScript? Some CommonJS in GNOME?
Apps in CoffeeScript, a great idea but I’ll tackle the JavaScript side first. One has to focus their attention to something. And as CommonJS goes, I just might have something to say about that.
Here is an example of GNOME development in CoffeeScript:
http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/using_coffeescript_for_gnome_development/
Thanks, Henri. Coffee looks much better than JS for me. I only hope ES.next will fix some ugly things in JS.
If you like something even more typesafe, try HaXe, see http://www.haxe.org