Consulting

Hi, I'm Kevin Walzer, the principal developer of Code by Kevin. I have a decade of experience in creating and selling beautiful, user-centric software for Mac OS X, using the cross-platform Tk GUI toolkit with its Tcl and Python bindings.

The Mac platform is one of the fastest-growing computer platforms in the world today, but commercial Tcl and Python applications are frequently absent from OS X (though they may have Windows and Linux/Unix versions). I can help you bring your software to the Mac world in the following ways:

• Port your Tcl/Tk and Python/Tk software to the Mac platform.
  
• Optimize the UX of your Tcl/Tk and Python/Tk software on the Mac platform to conform to Mac users' demanding expectations.
• Advise on deployment, distribution and marketing of your products on the Mac platform.

Here's an example of successful projects I've completed in recent years:

• Principal maintainer of the Tk GUI toolkit on OS X since 2011. Continuously review, fix, and commit bug patches; ensure that the framework continues to keep pace with the evolution of the Mac platform. Requires deep knowledge of Tk's user-level API, internal API, and the underlying Cocoa frameworks on OS X.
• Author of numerous libraries to integrate Tcl/Tk software better into the Mac UI environment.
• Developed numerous commercial applications based on Tcl/Tk and Python/Tk for my own development practice, Code by Kevin.
• Author of extensive documentation on optimizing Tcl/Tk software for OS X, including deploying Tcl/Tk applications to the Mac platform and preparing Tcl/Tk applications for the Mac App Store.
• Contributed code to Python/Tk projects such as the IDLE editor application and PySol card game.

If you're interested in talking further about your project, feel free to contact me. I look forward to working with you!

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