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!!

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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!

OK, so I’m a long time TiVO fanatic. I got one when they first came out with the DirecTV TiVO and got a lifetime subscription for a house full of TiVOs. For a long time I was the only one on Manhattan’s Upper East Side with a dish poking out my window. All my old Series 1 and 2 TiVOs were upgraded to add additional disk storage (thank you WeaKnees!). When the Series 3 High-Def TiVOs came out for cable only, I finally bid farewell to my satellite feed. I rewired for digital cable and transferred my membership to a pair of new Series 3s.

The Series 3s were expensive, and buying WeaKnees modded 3s with extra disk was prohibitively so. So I got the standard units with 250GB of disk, which sounds like a lot, until you consider that 32 hours of HD content will fill that disk. A couple movies and a season of “Lost” and boom - you are out of space and no more fun “TiVO Suggestions” to look through, and you have to trim your subscriptions down to saving just 1 or 2 episodes. To add insult to injury, there is a tempting eSATA jack for “Expansion Disk” that isn’t enabled yet.

Life is now good - Kickstart 62 is here! (Actually it was always there, built in my the wonderful TiVO engineers who love back doors. Thank you!) Last night I upgraded my living room TiVO to a whopping 1 Terabyte of storage using a very-cool-in-its-own-right Newer Tech miniStack 750gb eSATA drive from OWC.

Engadget recently posted how to finally use that jack here. However I actually found this post from MFS Live better because you absolutely have to do your “6″ “2″ kickstart when the orange LED is the only one on.

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OK, I love the Skitch image tool and I’ve only been playing with it for half an hour. Run, do not walk to the Plasq website and request a beta copy of Skitch. This is a great app for several reasons: it is perfect for the day-to-day tasks of someone like me who isn’t (usually) a graphic designer, but do need to share images via mail and IM and do screen grabs and the occasional bit of cropping and annotating, it is totally simple and easy to use and has lots of useful pop-up tips and help, it has built in image sharing via mySkitch image hosting site, and last but not least, the user interface is AWESOME!.

This app defines broad swaths of new UI paradigms for Mac desktop apps. I love that it miniaturizes to a menubar icon - where it has a number of useful features including an excellent image grab feature. It works great with your iSight camera. All four corners of the window can be grabbed and used to resize (thank you, thank you, thank you!) It has built in image upload to a website (mySkitch by default, but set up all the upload accounts you want - FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Flickr and .MAC). And just to show they rock and roll with Cocoa, Dashboard-style Preferences on the back of the window.

Cool as this app is to use, the main point is to improve your workflow when collaborating with others on tasks involving images. Grabbing a screenshot of a bit of mis-aligned HTML, adding an arrow with a comment and sending it off has never been easier. And for everyone building a Mac desktop app out there - check this puppy out for some excellent design ideas!