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CocoaHeads: Cocoa and Rails Web Services

John Fox will give a presentation on integrating Cocoa with Ruby on Rails web services at CocoaHeads on Thursday February 8 at 7:30pm. John is the author of MemoryMiner, which recently gained web-based services:

The MemoryMiner Web Annotation service lets you compose and send secure, private messages from the MemoryMiner desktop application to friends and family asking them to fill in missing details about the people, places and events depicted in a set of photos.

The recipients receive an email message with a link to an easy to use web application giving details of the request (i.e specific questions, suggestions).

Pretty slick, yes? John recently posted something on this topic at ZDNet. For those that don't know, MemoryMiner was an official "Best of Show" pick for Macworld SF 2006.

One interesting bit of trivia is MemoryMiner is based on DataCrux, which is a SQLite persistence framework I wrote a ways back. Some of the original code in there is, um, interesting. It was based on one my first Cocoa projects. John has his own fork which is considerably more evolved and actually actively developed.

The CocoaHeads meeting will be at Apple, but I'm not sure which building yet. We default to Building 1, but keep an eye out for updates.

As always, there's no need to pre-register and attendence is free. This is a public service to the Cocoa community. The only thing you have to do in return is spread the word.

See you there.

CocoaHeads: Cocoa and Rails Web Services
Posted Feb 3, 2007 — 14 comments below

Evan Chaney — Feb 03, 07 3497

Any chance the content of this talk will be made available online afterwards for those who aren't in Cupertino?

Scott Stevenson — Feb 04, 07 3498

I'd like to see us do that. It depends on the mechanics of the situation and I have to check with John Fox as well.

Rafael Bugajewski — Feb 04, 07 3500

Oh yeah, it would be really nice if we could watch it afterwards. I mean a trip from Germany to the United States is not cheap (as a student) and the content is definitely interesting.

Chris — Feb 04, 07 3501

I've recently started doing this by using Ruby/Amazon (http://www.caliban.org/ruby/ruby-amazon.shtml) and Cocoa. I was very surprised how well and easy it worked.

John C. Fox — Feb 04, 07 3502

I'm happy that people are interested in this, so I'll see what we can do to make the content of the talk available in some form after the talk for those who don't love me enough to fly half way around the world. ;-)

John

Andrew — Feb 05, 07 3507

That would be wicked, John.

:-)

Blain — Feb 06, 07 3509

Very cool. I'm going to try to make it. Is a working knowledge of Ruby expected? If so, are there any quick tutorials suggested?

Also, um, is there any chance of Super Smash Brothers or Twilight Princess demonstrations before the meeting?

Scott Stevenson — Feb 07, 07 3549

Is a working knowledge of Ruby expected?
Not sure. You might have to ask John. :)

any chance of Super Smash Brothers or Twilight Princess demonstrations before the meeting
Hmmm. Tempting.

Elliott Harris — Feb 08, 07 3554

Any final word on the meeting being published in video format of some kind?

Scott Stevenson — Feb 08, 07 3557

Any final word on the meeting being published in video format of some kind?
I know John is going to do his best. I'll have to let everyone know after the presentation.

John C. Fox — Feb 09, 07 3558

Comments. Remember to use UBB code. Not HTML.

John C. Fox — Feb 09, 07 3559

Thanks to everyone who showed up last night. I enjoyed sharing info about the app and its Web Services integration. I wanted to let folks now that I'm working on an article on the same topic for MacDevCenter which will include some code snippets.

Randy Harmon — Jan 07, 08 5319

I'd like to hear a summary of the learnings from this topic.

Scott Stevenson — Jan 07, 08 5320

@Randy Harmon: I'd like to hear a summary of the learnings from this topic

It was about a year ago, so I'm not sure how to summarize. :)

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