Francisco gave a talk at the Future of Web Apps conference in London last week. Flickr user bastienlabelle captured this great photo:
Additionally, the FOWA crew has posted video highlights from Francisco’s talk, as well as a quick interview:
We don’t want to repeat ourselves too much across this blog and our new one, but this news is too important to pass up.
Cappuccino, our web application framework built in Objective-J and modeled after Cocoa, is now available as an open source project at http://cappuccino.org!
Francisco said it best:
We’re open sourcing this technology because we sincerely want to be part of a world where there are more high quality web applications like 280 Slides. We’ll be putting a lot of resources into Cappuccino in the future, and we plan to build a strong open source community around the development platform. We can’t wait to see where you take this with us.
Techcrunch also posted a great write-up.
Cappuccino is how we built 280 Slides, and it’s going to change the way people build web applications. So, head on over to cappuccino.org and get started building your own app!
After working on it (and not) for weeks, we’re finally launching our new web site at http://280north.com. The site will be our company home, and will host up to date information on all the projects we’re working on, including 280 Slides and Cappuccino.
The 280 North Blog has been redesigned to fit in with the new site, including an overhaul of the comment system, which is now powered by Disqus (a fellow YC company).
The site itself is brand new, so we’ll be continuing to update and improve it. If you find any bugs, don’t hesitate to send them to us.
We owe plenty of thanks to our friends at MetaLab Design. They helped us with 280slides.com and 280north.com, and are really top notch designers. I strongly recommend them.
I’d also like to give a belated thank you to Miles Ponson, who made many of the graphics for 280 Slides, including the main icon.