Just a quick note that we released a version 0.9.16 of SproutCore today. This fixes a critical regression introduced in 0.9.15 that broke use of the :field option. The sample controls have also been updated to make sure we test for this in the future.
Otherwise 0.9.16 is the same as 0.9.15
Some fine folks invited me to speak on SproutCore at Oracle this month and so I put together some slides and gave them a show. Many thanks to the great people there who let me speak. And by the way, they are doing some very interesting things so keep your eye on them.
Anyway, I can share these slides unlike some presentations I’ve done in the past. Enjoy.
O’Reilly’s InsideRIA blog has a great Introduction to SproutCore today. If you haven’t heard my talk on SproutCore before, this covers a lot of the same information. Thanks Toby!
Our man August is at iPhoneDevCamp and found this session listed for this evening:
Anyone who attends, write us or blog about it with some coverage and we’ll link it up.
The SproutCore mailing list crossed 800 members yesterday. Pretty impressive considering that just over a month ago fewer than 50 people were on the list. The mailing list is growing quickly everyday as are the number of interesting cool apps people are building with the framework.
Which reminds me: the first SproutCore Demo Competition is coming to a close in just three days. The purpose of this competition is to give you a place to show off what you achieved in just a couple weeks with SproutCore. This is just a demo contest and everyone is new to SproutCore so no demo is too simple to show. Let us see your work!
I’ll review the code of at least the first 10 entries and provide feedback so you can get some help from the experts on how make your SproutCore app really shine.
Link up your entry on the wiki page.
Johannes posted a great tutorial about how to use SproutCore to create a social application using Google’s OpenSocial. It is worth a read.
http://blog.springenwerk.com/2008/07/socialsprout-using-sproutcore-in.html
Onitunes has been hard at work the last few weeks writing an excellent tutorial on the model portion of SproutCore Model-View-Controller architecture. It’s a great explanation of how to use models in your own applications.
Check out SproutCores Modern Models.
What kind of backend server technologies does SproutCore work with? Anything. And to prove it, cpomer just posted an excellent tutorial on building a SproutCore app and paired backend service in ASP.net.
Way to go!
(BTW, take a look at that wiki while you are there. It’s hard to believe its only been up a week. The community around this project is amazing!)
Ajaxian, a community of “Ajax”-ians , just posted a podcast that features Charles Jolley in an interview about SproutCore, recorded up in Palo Alto. Give it a listen here - http://ajaxian.com/archives/audible-ajax-episode-27-sproutcore-with-charles-jolley
whump says:
While SproutCore uses Ruby to generate static HTML and JavaScript files, you are not tied to Ruby or Rails in production.
SproutCore runs in the browser, your production system can use whatever backend you want, as long as it sends JSON to the browser.
This is true, though you could use any format; not just JSON. JSON is faster though because it is simpler in structure. Most browsers I tested could parse incoming JSON 10x faster than they could setup DOM for XML.
Anyway, whump’s post is a good clarification about using SproutCore with non-ruby backends from someone who has been there.
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