We had a great SproutCore Meetup at Google a few nights ago in cooperation with our friends at SV-GTUG. Nearly 100 people attended, Peter showed his great SproutCore app, Ryan gave a talk on Google AppEngine, and I built an entire application, including the backend, and deployed it on stage. That was fun.

Google AppEngine is interesting, but I think it’s especially interesting when you combine it with a web-client style technology like SproutCore. It makes AppEngine apps easier to build and delivers outstanding performance.

We’ll have a full video up in a few days as I understand it. I’ll post a link here when we get it, but until then here are some photos to tide you over.

Thanks again to the fine folks at SV-GTUG and Google for hosting the event.

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Peter Bergstrom has been working on a really interesting paper citation visualization tool called PaperCube for the last few months and its powered by SproutCore. Today he posted a detailed writeup on the app and how to use it, that you can check out for yourself.

PaperCube is a great example of using SVG and advanced CSS rendering to create a rich graphical experience. It’s a bit shocking when you use this app to realize that he has created this entire experience using only JavaScript and native web technologies. Who says you need Flash or Silverlight for a great visual experience!

PaperCube will be one of the example apps listed on our samples page soon also.

» Read Peter’s Instructions
» Try the app

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