Pure Ruby GUI

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Built a Ruby analytics gem to crunch Google App Engine event hashes, a second gem to pull data from App Engine and a Limelight front end packaged as a double‑clickable JRuby bundle. Prototype CLI generates PDFs; the Limelight GUI loads cached or live data, renders multiple graphs (including a six‑month viewers accumulation), switches charts faster than the CLI, and is unit‑tested. Source is on GitHub and the desktop bundle runs standalone without a Rails stack.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:46Where is Uncle Bob
3. 1:58Storytime
4. 5:11Data
5. 6:25Rails
6. 7:37Architecture
7. 10:33Analytics
8. 16:25Limelight
9. 24:52Graph
10. 25:44Conclusion

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