Hey everybody, I wanted to say hi to the list and introduce myself - I've been lurking for awhile and come by when I need help, but RubyConf has me all fired up, so I'd like to start engaging more with the community. My name is Leigh Caplan, and I'm a developer in Seattle, WA. I like long walks on the beach, dinner by candlelight, and not having to write my Mac OS X apps in Objective C. First, I wanted to tell everyone about a potentially useful menu extra that I created called CobraMenu. It's meant to be a simple "traffic light" for CI Joe (the super simple/awesome CI server written by the Github guys). You can find more info at http://texel.github.com/CobraMenu/ or just clone/fork it from https://github.com/texel/CobraMenu Next, developing this got me thinking about HotCocoa, and how it could evolve into a really useful project in the future. I had a chat w/ Matt Aimonetti today, and he mentioned that Rich Kilmer, while still interested in the project, both didn't have time to maintain it and also wasn't convinced that its current goal as a DSL for creating UI elements was necessarily useful for anything but trivial projects. Apparently there's also been some discussion to this effect on this list, but I'm a bit late to the party, so I apologize. Now, I *can* see a need for a ruby-like DSL for Cocoa, but in my opinion, it would be much more exciting if we endeavored to wrap other Cocoa classes and idioms in a loving Ruby-like embrace. Here's a rudimentary example (very much like something I've done in CobraMenu): HotCocoa::URLConnection.get('http://google.com') do |c| c.success { success_callback } c.failure { failure_callback } c.error { |e| error_handler.call_something e } end I'd be interested to see if other people think this is a good idea. If so, I can formulate a strategy, and get to work :) Leigh