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Three months ago we were thrilled to announce the introduction of our front end to GitHub Issues. Since then we have worked on specific bugs in the applications and added small features here and there.

Today we are excited to announce the first major revision to our GitHub Issues! Below is a list of all the new features Nick Small and Randy Luecke have worked hard to introduce.

Editable Issues
Swap orientation button in the browser version
Additional keyboard shortcuts
Additional columns with the ability to show and hide them by right clicking the table header
Additional search filters
Additional improvements for keyboard
Support for previewing issues before you submit them
Bulk operations on multiple issues at once
Notifications for unsaved comments and issues
OAuth
Full support for tagging

…and of course various bug fixes!

You can view the application by visiting githubissues.heroku.com, or you can download the updated desktop version (read more about how we make this work with

Community Highlights: Adventures in localizing a Cappuccino ApplicationJuly 29

Community Highlights: Using Cappuccino to build the MemoryMiner Web Viewer

Back with a second post is John Fox, creator of MemoryMiner, a digital storytelling application for Mac OS X. John writes about the steps he took to localize his Cappuccino application, a web viewer for MemoryMiner.

The post comes complete with sample code, and its worth a read if you’re interested in localizing your own applications.

GitHub Issues Cappuccino App: Desktop and WebMay 13

To showcase our new NativeHost technology, we’re proud to announce the brand new GitHub Issues App, written entirely in Cappuccino and available for both desktop and web:

The online version is running on Heroku’s Node.js beta at http://githubissues.heroku.com. If you’re already using GitHub’s Issue tracking feature, then this app will work for you right out of the box. Simply type in your repo’s identifier (username/reponame), and we’ll fetch all the issues for you. You can also log in with your GitHub account to access private repositories.

Open Source

The GitHub Issues app was put together by some truly excellent members of the Cappuccino community, and we’re open sourcing it so that it can serve as an example of how to build and architect a full blown application with Cappuccino and

NativeHost: Run your Cappuccino applications on the desktopMay 13

Today we’re adding an exciting new open source component to the repertoire of Cappuccino tools. If you’ve checked out out any of the Atlas betas, you’re probably aware that they’re distributed as a desktop application. What you may not know is that despite this, Atlas is still itself a full fledged Cappuccino application (written in Atlas no less). Atlas has had the ability to create both web and desktop applications from the start, requiring nothing but the click of a button:

The way we’ve accomplished this is with a technology we call NativeHost. NativeHost allows you to take existing Cappuccino applications and with no additional work target them for the desktop. It accomplishes this with an incredibly small and lightweight wrapper around the WebKit browser engine. In this respect, it is similar to a number of existing technologies, including Adobe AIR and

Introducing the Atlas Plugin API and MapKitMay 4

We just shipped another update to the Atlas Beta today, and one of the coolest new features is the addition of a plugin API to allow you to create custom controls that you can use as easily as the ones you get by default. To kick this off we’ve provided a sample plugin for the Google Maps API. You can take a look at what its capable of here:

We’ve also put together a tutorial (see below) on how we built this plugin so that you can learn to do the same with your code. The MapKit framework and plugin are of course completely open source, so feel free to take a look!

Atlas Plugin API Tutorial with MapKit from 280 North, Inc. on Vimeo.