I have been putting a load of my time into polishing the Fyne based desktop – and it is becoming a very productive system that I use day to day. I have presented the topic at a few events recently (including GopherCon and GopherCon UK) and it’s getting a very good reception! In my latest project you can see the lovely branded USB stick being … Continue reading Running the FyshOS desktop on Surface Pro
It’s the holiday season which means, apart from family and abundant eating and drinking, it’s time to sit down and get some coding projects done. I don’t know if others find this too, but I love the opportunity to step away from work and progress projects that have gone dreamed of but otherwise not progressed. So here are a few tasty morsels that I am … Continue reading Holiday Coding
Last week I had a really fun evening because the great team at ChangeLog put together a Go Time podcast episode about cross-platform graphical user interfaces. Lea Anthony and myself were invited to talk about the Wails and Fyne toolkits for GUI app building. Thanks also to Mat Ryer and Natalie Pistunovich for being welcoming and engaging hosts of the recording. Hopefully this offers a … Continue reading Gooey Podcast 🙂
Last week I had the pleasure of being invited to the OpenUK awards ceremony. It was originally planned as a big night out in London where like-minded open source advocates and community members could get together, chat about the latest tech or trends and meet new friends. Due to the current pandemic situation, however, they moved it online. Initially I was a little apprehensive as … Continue reading OpenUK Awards: A great night in and a wonderful trophy!
Not long ago I started listening to the excellent “Go Time” podcast from the ChangeLog network. I highly recommend it for a relaxed approach to lots of interesting topics around the Go language and it’s common uses. And so I was thrilled when they reached out to ask me to join them for a discussion about GUIs and other unusual uses for Go. One recording … Continue reading Unusual Uses for Go
Today I posted a reflection on 2019 for the Fyne project – it’s been a very busy year indeed. We are celebrating 9 releases (3 major), 37 contributors, 7300 stargazers on GitHub and a conference live streamed on YouTube – to read more head to the Fyne blog. It clearly would not be possible without the fantastic contributions of the community – developers, designers, testers … Continue reading Looking toward a Fyne 2020
Have you heard about the new GitHub Sponsors programme? The great people at GitHub have built a platform to help get open source developers paid for the great work they do. Yup, it’s a great idea – one that I had considered exploring before but clearly they have the resources and expertise to do it better – and thankfully they have done. The really exciting … Continue reading Accepted to GitHub Sponsors
Recently one of the great developers that contribute to Fyne (thanks steveoc64!) pointed out a cool BASIC interpreter on GitHub. It looked like a fantastic opportunity for a weekend project and a chance for a bit of retro indulgence. Whilst the interpreter was pretty full featured it didn’t allow me to play around through a user interface – so I wanted to see how difficult it would … Continue reading Retro weekend BASIC style
As people following this blog may know I had become frustrated at how difficult it is to create cross-platform native applications for desktop systems. Most of the languages and APIs are out dated, require complex compilation or large run-time dependencies. It was in an effort to do something about this that I started to learn Go – it seemed like a really easy to learn … Continue reading Meet the first book about Golang GUI programming
I wanted to start looking at other uses for vector graphics in an application as I develop Fyne further. Then it came to me, a card game! I managed to find a great public domain set of graphics and whipped up a card back from the fyne logo. From there laying out a simple solitaire board was a piece of cake by just implementing fyne.Layout … Continue reading That’s a Fyne deck of cards
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