[FOWA 2009]: Building Web Apps Using Atlas

There we go… FOWA is starting today with the workshops. One workshop in the morning, one in the afternoon. I’m attending Building Web Apps Using Atlas in the morning session. The group for this session is rather small and a nice mixture between deliberate coolios and obvious nerds. I don’t classify myself for now… ;-)
Oh, and we’re off for a real good start since the speaker is already 30 minutes late because he’s stuck in London traffic…

• 09:50 – Speaker Francisco is supposed to be here in 5 minutes, almost one hour late… We will work thru lunch break, I’d rather have slept a little longer…
• 09:58 – He made it! Let’s get started…
• Interesting, 280 North guys used to work for Apple software development (Mobile Safari, iTunes Store, etc.)
• Cool, during the session we’ll use etherpad.com to share links and questions in realtime. Well, WiFi problems now…
• Evolution of web: New York Times > Amazon > Facebook > Google Maps (pages to applications)
• Cappuccino (cappuccino.org) is a framework to create web applications (like 280slides.com). So you don’t have to do it like Meebo who has 40 employees and 20 of them are just there to write code for buttons, windows, etc.
• Objective-J: New language because HTML/JavaScript/CSS can never be perfect (hope I got that right). Any feature in JavaScript also works in Objective-J.
• Javascript:
  object.method()

  - Objective-J:

  [object method]

  - and showing some other code snippets. Basically just like Objective-C («Its syntax is nearly identical to the Objective-C syntax» source). Idea: «Cocoa on the web».

• Goal: Code you can read aloud!
• Showed lots of code examples, is going to do live coding demo now. > Interesting stuff.
• Quick snack break. When does Atlas come into the game? Well, Objective-J is the language, Cappuccino is the framework, Atlas is the development environment and visual editor.
• Haha, Francisco (the speaker) is kinda gathering monentum about the web not being based on commonly accepted standards (like in building browsers).
• Fundamental thing in Cappuccino: Views! It’s about GUI, not just maths.
• «CSS 3 is useless if you have no taste…» :-)
• Make stuff look nice with Aristo – Photoshop File
• Mac Interface Builder to Web with nib2cib!. I’m getting happier and happier to have had a closer look at Mac SDKs lately. This stuff is really becoming the same!
• Cappuccino debugging and logging stuff. Nice, as everything.
• Now, finally Atlas! But… not supposed to blog about it because Francisco is gonna talk about it at conference tomorrow or day after. Sorry!

I like how Objective-J is so close to Objective-C and Cocoa (which I kind of learnt over the last few months). So the approach to use the same style for web apps as for desktop apps is very appealing to me! I’ll definitely have to get a closer look at that stuff.

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