Gregory Dawson, a friend of mine for many years and a friend of CodeFab’s, has passed on. Greg was surrounded by friends and family today when he and the doctors decided the time had come. We will all miss him very much.

Greg had a rich and varied life, producing theater, radio and television, as well as the cabaret at the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center in New York. He was also the creative force and founding partner for the trend setting New York cabaret and restaurant The Ballroom in the 1980’s.

Greg was an artist and sculptor his whole life, with a prodigious and amazingly varied output. He achieved a cult status in the 80’s and 90’s with elaborate tableaux of tiny sculpted wax and clay figurines, many depicting the wild side of New York night life of the era. His recent work has been a joyful explosion of constructivist abstract sculpture and paintings which can be viewed at his website DaWsoNWoRK.

In conjunction with the open source release of the WOiPhoneStore framework for WebObjects at the OpenBase Developer Summit 2007 CodeFab has created a new mailing list for the exchange of developer information about Cocoa and web-based iPhone applications. We encourage anyone interested in this fascinating and rapidly evolving topic to sign up here for iPhone-dev right away!

In conjunction with a presentation given at OpenBase Developer Summit 2007 CodeFab has developed an example WebObjects framework that demonstrates how to construct web-based application user interfaces for display on Apple’s new iPhone web browser. The framework demonstrates some best practices for use of HTML, CSS3, JavaScript and AJAX to create an attractive and responsive interface for your application. This framework can be used as is to add hierarchical product browsing to any existing WebObjects-based store.

Get the source here. Many kudos to author and CodeFab alumnus Scott Lopatin!!

Enjoy!

In conjunction with talks given at WOrld WebObjects Developers Conference 2007 and OpenBase Developer Summit 2007 CodeFab has developed an example WebObjects framework that uses XML web services to implement Google Checkout for processing e-Commerce transactions using Google and their new service based API. This framework can be used as is to add Google Checkout processing to any existing WebObjects-based store.

Get the source here. Many kudos to author and CodeFab alumnus Scott Lopatin!!

Enjoy!

CodeFab CEO and roving lecturer Alex Cone will be giving two talks at the OpenBase Developer Summit in Vail Colorado, which opens on October 7th, 2007. The sessions will be:

WebObjects, AJAX & iPhone Development on Tuesday at 11:00am. This talk will be presented with CodeFab alumnus Scott Lopatin and will include a demonstration of a store presentation framework developed to show how to optimize presentation for the iPhone browser. The framework source can be downloaded here. CodeFab has also created a general developer mailing list for iPhone development discussion and developers interested in exchanging ideas should sign up here.

WebObjects, WebServices & XML on Wednesday at 11:00am. This talk will include a demo of XML-based web services that access the new Google Checkout service. The web service implementation is provided as a general framework that can easily be added to an existing store. The framework source can be downloaded here.

Alex will also be informally discussing the WireHose WebObject framework with interested developers. WireHose has recently seen the release of version 4.0 and a mailing list for WireHose development topics can be subscribed to here.

CodeFab is delighted to be asked to participate in the OpenBase Summit 2007 and would like to thank Scott Keith and all the rest of the OpenBase crew and all the conference sponsors for putting together an excellent developer event!