Link: Sprouting—Automated Spriting for SproutCore
Using sprites will help your web app load much faster. We already sprite our Ace UI theme for you, but what about your own images?
Now Alex Iskander has a solution for you…great work Alex!
Link: An Engineer’s Guide to Bandwidth (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)
Excellent detailed info on how high latency impacts performance of your website. Ever wonder why your zippy server response time seems slow when you go into the real world?
SproutCore apps in some ways actually make latency effects worse for your app; not because of SproutCore itself but because now so much of your app is happening locally on the client, every high-latency request to the server becomes painfully obvious.
Link: SproutCore Task Manager on Google App Engine
The open-source agile tracker “tasks” is now hosted on Google App Engine. It’s fast and also looking a lot nicer. Go give it a look. (login: guest)
A user-signup app should be available soon and then we’re going to start planning some SC work on it. Eventually I’d love to replace lighthouse with something SC native…
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. Some features are still missing here and there but if you’re looking for a demo of the cools things SproutCore 1.0 can do for your site, look no further.
Great work!
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 source. You can also now file tickets in Lighthouse related to the parts of SproutCore he is responsible for and he can pick them up.
Welcome Martin and thanks for all your great work!