[MacRuby-devel] status and prospects of HotCocoa?

[dan sinclair]

I've got a few tutorials and github apps that I've written with HotCocoa. I kinda stopped poking at it as I wasn't sure what the future held and decided to switch to straight up MacRuby/Cocoa for my last app.

Tutorials
* http://everburning.com/news/heating-up-with-hotcocoa-part-i/
* http://everburning.com/news/heating-up-with-hotcocoa-part-ii/
* http://everburning.com/news/heating-up-with-hotcocoa-part-iii/
* http://everburning.com/news/heating-up-with-hotcocoa-on-github/
* http://everburning.com/news/download-and-xml-parsing-with-hotcocoa/
* http://everburning.com/news/toolbars-with-hotcocoa/
* http://everburning.com/news/hotcocoa-and-core-data/

Github
* http://github.com/dj2/SilverLining   (Amazon EC2 Instance Browser)
* http://github.com/dj2/Rife                 (Start of a news reader)
* http://github.com/dj2/Postie             (The app from the heating up tutorials)


dan


On 2010-06-10, at 2:05 PM, Gary Weaver wrote:

> These posts are a bit old now but:
> 
> Lots of examples linked to in this:
> * http://stufftohelpyouout.blogspot.com/2010/03/hotcocoamacruby-links.html
> 
> Some lame stuff I did in a few days:
> * http://stufftohelpyouout.blogspot.com/2010/02/hotcocoa-app-to-track-time-on-tasks.html
> * http://stufftohelpyouout.blogspot.com/2010/02/create-custom-icon-of-your-hotcocoa-app.html
> * http://stufftohelpyouout.blogspot.com/2010/02/create-macruby-hotcocoa-app.html
> 
> This helped me get started in addition to the tutorial:
> * http://isaac.kearse.co.nz/2010/02/01/packaging-hotcocoa/
> (note: Isaac provided a patch to MacRuby to help with the file size thing)
> 
> The current story I think is that Rich Kilmer:
> http://wiki.github.com/richkilmer/hotcocoa/
> got pulled into other things and didn't have much time to keep it going, so others have forked it I think:
> http://github.com/richkilmer/hotcocoa/network
> 
> Dan Sinclair had the most recent work on his branch of it but that was last updated March 23, 2010:
> http://github.com/dj2/hotcocoa
> 
> I'm hoping Rich, Dan, and everyone else that is interested will continue work on it. It was pretty cool!
> 
> Gary
> 
> 
> On 6/10/10 1:48 PM, Rich Morin wrote:
>> I'm curious about the status of HotCocoa.  Although it seems
>> like a very cool piece of technology, the activity level and
>> documentation status seem pretty minimal.  For example:
>> 
>>  *  http://www.macruby.org/trac/wiki/HotCocoaStatus shows
>>     about thirty "partial" mappings; the rest are "unknown".
>> 
>>  *  http://www.macruby.org/trac/wiki/HotCocoaTutorial just
>>     says "TODO".
>> 
>>  *  "MacRuby: The Definitive Guide" doesn't mention HotCocoa
>>     in the Table of Contents.
>> 
>> If some folks here are using HotCocoa, I'd love to see some
>> examples, howtos, etc!
>> 
>> -r
>> 
> 
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