[PLUG-ANNOUNCE] ANNOUNCEMENT PLUG Advanced Topics January 21st 2008

[Alan]

PLUG Advanced Topics Meeting
January 21st, 2008  7pm

Jax Bar
826 SW 2nd Ave
Portland, OR 97204
(503) 228-9128

Speaker:     Eric Wilhelm <scratchcomputing at gmail.com>

Codeless GUI Programming
  A Declarative Syntax Layer for Desktop Graphical User Interfaces

This will be the world premiere of a game-changing advancement in the 
development of desktop graphical user interfaces (GUIs).  FreeTUIT 
removes the verbosity, tedium, and confusion from GUI development and 
provides a unified syntax for widget layout and configuration which 
supports good software design practice without getting in the way of 
rapid application development.

FreeTUIT is a syntax and runtime for concisely declaring the layout and 
configuration of GUI widgets (such as forms, toolbars, buttons, and 
dialogs).  The freetuit interpreter drives a unified object layer which 
is accessible from event callbacks.  This takes you from a blank page 
to a static demo of the layout with zero setup and allows desktop 
applications to be developed and deployed faster than web applications 
by simply removing the HTML, CSS, XML, HTTP, Javascript, Database, 
Network, and User Agent components.

Jax is next to the 2nd Ave Max stop.