September 2009
14 posts
ListenApp is the coolest way to surf new music
If you like to find new music from independent artists, you’ll love the latest SproutCore 1.0 app from AloneTone, ListenApp!
ListenApp is the kind of player I wish all online music sites had: fast, easy to use, and beautiful. It’s simple UI helps you find music fast so you can start listening right away.
Sudara, the developer, says ListenApp! is still very early in development....
Welcome Martin to the Core Team
Martin Ottenwaelter is a developer based on Paris (lucky) who has contributed immensely to the development of SproutCore 1.0 over the last year. He has helped to fix dozens of bugs and most recently contributed the excellent SC.DateTime class for handling multiple timezones.
I’m very pleased to welcome Martin to the core team which means he’ll be making commits directly to the main...
SproutCore 1.0 Goes to RubyForge
The first release candidate for SproutCore 1.0 is only a few weeks away. In preparation, we are now publishing the SproutCore 1.0 gems directly through RubyForge instead of using Github.
This means that if you want to install SproutCore 1.0, all you now need to do is open your terminal and type:
sudo gem install sproutcore
It’s that simple!
From now on I will periodically publish new...
How SproutCore Makes Your App Run Faster
If SproutCore 1.0 had a theme it would be “performance”. We’ve spent a lot of time - almost a year in fact - trying to make SproutCore applications the fastest web apps on the planet. I think we’ve done a pretty good job overall.
For example, we took Steve Souders excellent book on High Performance Websites and built his 14 rules right into our platform. We also...
Build Blindingly Fast Web Apps with Me at Silicon...
The weekend of October 3-4, I’ll be presenting at SiliconValley CodeCamp on SproutCore 1.0.
The title of my talk is “Build blindingly-fast Web Apps with HTML5 and SproutCore” which is really cool because with SproutCore 1.0 we can actually back that up.
Anyway, the conference is FREE and it comes with over 100 other really interesting sessions. If you live in the Bay Area...
Google Chrome Frame →
Google Chrome Frame is an early-stage open source plug-in that seamlessly brings Google Chrome’s open web technologies and speedy JavaScript engine to Internet Explorer. With Google Chrome Frame, you can:
Start using open web technologies - like the HTML5 canvas tag - right away, even technologies that aren’t yet supported in Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8.
Take advantage of...
Postback: DataStore Improvements and Dynamic...
I just pushed a big bunch of changes to the public repository tonight, including a month’s worth of bug fixes and tweaks, along with a few major new changes.
I don’t normally write a blog post about every change we push to the repository. But this push includes a fairly major API change. Since SproutCore 1.0 means we’re making a commitment to our API, all changes we make need...
Help us create an Admin application this week.
Update: Sprint will begin at 6pm PST on Thursday, Sept. 17 and run until 10 pm.
Would you like to help create an auto-admin application for SproutCore’s datastore? This is a follow up to the work on django-sproutcore started last week, but is not Django-specific: the admin application will be usable with any SproutCore schema, not just those auto-generated by django-sproutcore.
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SproutCore Is Your New Bicycle →
Someone posted this. Funny.
What server does SproutCore run on?
Ha ha! Trick question! SproutCore is a client-side application framework only.
No part of SproutCore “runs” on the server, and SproutCore contains no “server-side” libraries. A web server (Apache, for example) is only used to deliver plain old HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to the browser. Once those initial files have been served, a SproutCore-based application runs entirely in the browser (and can...
“InfoQ has reported on SproutCore a couple of times in the past and recently...”
– InfoQ: SproutCore: An HTML 5 Application Framework
