Rich Speaks at Ruby on OS X in Amsterdam
Posted by Mark Gardner on 2009-05-18 16:22:27 UTC
Photos by Thijs van der Vossen (via Creative Commons)
This Mac developer conference held in The Netherlands was the second venue where Rich Kilmer spoke on HotCocoa. HotCocoa is a thin Ruby layer that sits above Cocoa and other frameworks that simplifies the verbose OS X API so that a programmer can construct user interfaces without Interface Builder. It is accomplished by creating a mapping layer on top of the Objective-C classes and adds Ruby-friendly methods, constants and delegate techniques that are refreshingly simple but do not prevent full access to the Cocoa APIs.
Rich's talk focused on the state of the project and its future direction as well as giving a demo on its usability.