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How To Write a Glimmer Timer Desktop App in One Hour

by Andy Maleh —

I needed a simple Timer desktop app on my Mac today, so I wrote one in Glimmer (Ruby Desktop Development GUI Library). The initial working prototype took me about one hour, mostly spending my time outside of Glimmer, figuring out how to leverage the Java Sound libraries (since Glimmer works through JRuby). Otherwise, I spent 2-3 hours afterwards on fit and finish (e.g. logo and fonts) and testing/packaging for the Mac and Windows. https://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2020/08/writing-glimmer-timer-sample-app-in.html

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