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WWDC: CPCoder Night, hosted by Sofa and 280 NorthJune 5

If you’re in town for WWDC, or happen to be in San Francisco already, stop by CPCoder Night on Monday for a chance to meet 280 North, Sofa, and dozens of other Cappuccino developers. It’s taking place from 7-9PM in the Martini Lounge at Jillian’s, in the Metreon across the street from Moscone West.

Thanks to sponsorship by Sofa there will be food!

If you can’t make it before 9:00 we’ll likely be hanging around the bar at Jillian’s after, but check @280north on Twitter for updates.

Cappuccino 0.7 Now AvailableMay 20

We’re pleased to announce the immediate release of Cappuccino 0.7, the latest update to the Cappuccino web framework. This release has been five months in the making, and it marks a significant step forward for the project.

0.7 By The Numbers

As of version 0.6, Cappuccino had 9 total contributors. Version 0.7 more than triples that number with 29 total contributors. And thanks to the inspiration and hard work of Xavier Noria and José Espinal, we’ve got a slick new website that keeps up to date tallies on all of the contributors to the project. Check it out here. If you find a mistake, be sure to let us know in the comments.

This release includes over 100 bug fixes, thanks in part to all the new contributors, and to the hard work of users taking the time to file quality bug reports. If you hadn’t noticed already, we’ve moved to github’s new issue tracking for bug reports, so check out the new system, and vote on issues that are important to you.

Better Objective-J Profiling with Cappuccino 0.7April 29

I’ve written pretty extensively on the changes we’ve been working on in the WebKit profiler to make for a much better experience when using Objective-J here, but long story short if you download the latest WebKit nightlies with Cappuccino 0.7 your profile should look like this:

One of our main goals with Cappuccino 0.7 is to really make the entire development cycle shine. Part of this was focusing heavily on nib2cib so that developers can make their apps in a more visual way, but we also want to make it much easier to debug as well. Let us know if you have any particular suggestions for making debugging even better over at our new bug tracker hosted on github: http://github.com/280north/cappuccino/issues

Cappuccino 0.7 BetaMarch 26

A few days ago we posted a beta of the upcoming 0.7 release to github. We sent out some information to the mailing list and posted some info on the wiki as well.

Thomas Balthazar has also recapped a lot of the information in his latest installment of This Week in Cappuccino Edge. I encourage you to check it out and let us know how 0.7 beta is shaping up!

Announcing AtlasFebruary 28

Over at 280 North, we announced our next product, called Atlas, at the Future of Web Apps conference in Miami this week.

Atlas is a visual development tool for creating web applications using the Cappuccino framework. The best way to explain Atlas is to show it:

Think Vitamin has an article discussing Atlas in more detail.

We’re really excited about the ways Atlas could change the process of developing web applications. Atlas will allow developers to worry less about boilerplate user interface and glue code, just as the Cappuccino framework gives developers many common features expected by users, letting them focus on the ones specific to their applications.

Furthermore, Atlas allows non-programmers, such as many graphic designers, to join in on the process of actually building an application, rather than just providing mockups that must then be replicated in code by a developer.

Atlas will be available this summer. Sign up for updates on 280atlas.com and we’ll let you know of the progress on Atlas.