On Saturday June 28th, Alex Cone will host the second annual CodeFab WebObjects Chili Cook-Off! This event is designed to bring together Apple geeks who develop using WebObjects (and this year we add iPhone developers too!) with connoisseurs of spicy food for a no-holds-barred, knock-down, drag-out chili cook-off that will smoke the surface of your tongues right off and do more psychic damage than the famed Guatemalan Insanity Pepper.

Alex will throw a batch or two to get things rolling - Chicken Mole? Chili Verde? - plus a batch of his famous Habenero Cornbread. An asbestos taste-bud mandatory rematch with last year’s winner Bojan will be sure to entertain all.

Email Alex Cone if you want to be a judge. To compete just bring your best batch of chili (a batch for about 20 people is a good start). There is a big stove, so you can get time to reheat and tune your spices the day of the cook-off.

Donations of beer, wine, sodas and anything else to cool the tongue definitely appreciated.

The party starts at 7:00 and cooks needing some time can come earlier.

The WebObjects fire started last year at Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference continues to rage unabated. Get all the latest information and developer tips and tricks at the 2008 WOrld Wide Web Objects Developer Conference in San Francisco June 7th and 8th.

CodeFab’s Alex Cone and Bill Hatch will be speaking on Sunday, giving the low-down on the latest AJAX support in WebObjects 5.4. The session is (*gasp!*) at 9:00 am, so don’t party to hearty on Saturday night. The full schedule is here.

Apple’s WWDC is now sold out. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn directly from the industry experts and the developers of the WebObjects tools. Online pre-registration is available only through BoxOffice Tickets (open until May 22th). You can also call BoxOffice Tickets at 1 800-494-8497.

In addition to Alex And Bill, look for fellow CodeFabbers Bill Sandner, Chuck Swiger and Justin Laird. There is an official WebObjects Tommy’s tequila run SUNDAY NIGHT! Mark your calendars!

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!