The 280 North crew just released NativeHost, an open source component that takes your Cappuccino applications and makes them desktop apps, without you having to write a line of code:

Again, we feel that the ultimate distribution platform is the web, and that the desktop is almost a transitional necessity today. So with that in mind, [...]

Saikat Chakrabarti of Mockingbird is looking to make the tool collaborative. Along the way he wanted to test out tools to make this happen, and one test ended up with a collaborative drawing program using Node.js with WebSocket support from Socket.IO:

, the actual interesting parts that are doing anything other than serving static files start [...]

The Cappuccino team have gotten a new version of the toolkit available before JSConf. Version 0.8 comes with auto-spriting, new components, new tools, all on top of CommonJS and Jake.
Check out some of the new components:

and the rest:

Automagic Image Spriting
We alluded to this feature a little while ago when we first announced it at [...]

The long awaited 280Atlas keeps marching on to its full release. The milestone that the awesome 280North team have accomplished this weekend was paid beta.
The tool is Mac only right now and the team interestingly created their own framework for taking a Web app and making it run on the desktop. Note the scrollbars and [...]

Mockingbird is a nice Cappuccino based tool that lets you quickly mockup a wire-frame on the Web.

Fire it up, build out your “pages”, drag and drop your UI, and then share it with your clients!

Elias Klughammer has implemented the Juggernaut push server in a Cappuccino app.
Always nice to have an open source bare bones sample app for a marriage like this. Nothing beats looking at the source.

I am sitting in the JavaOne keynote watching the event in real-time through the new application, almost.at. It aggregates tweets, links, photos and videos all in one nice interface.
You will notice that the UI has an iTunes-like feel with the bottom timeline, and it looks great. I am starting to wonder if you have to [...]

The Cappuccino team has announced Cappuccino 0.7.
There are some fairly big improvements:
Aristo New Look Open Sourced

Sofa has been working on a new look, and Aristo has been released to the world via PSD. It is very cool that the look and feel has been open sourced.

All the controls have been updated to use the new [...]

It’s no secret that we’re mightily impressed with the fine work of the 280 North crew, what with 280 Slides, Cappuccino, Atlas, working with SOFA to make Aristo free for other projects to use, and that whole Objective-J thing which we’ll never use but we love nonetheless. Francisco Tolmasky, one-third of the team, started blogging [...]

Francisco Tolmasky presented on the latest goodies from 280North at JSConf. In the past we’ve given the 280North guys a bad time for talking about 280Slides and their other stuff using… Keynote. I don’t know if he used Keynote at JSConf, but Francisco published the slides using the 280Slides web-based presentation viewer, which is also [...]