Here’s a blurb about the workshop:

This workshop will get you started on building applications in Cappuccino and Objective-J. Attendees will not be expected to have any prior experience with these technologies, but some familiarity with JavaScript and Object Oriented concepts are recommended. By the end of the workshop you will be comfortable with Objective-J and have worked through the process of building a simple application in Cappuccino. You’ll be introduced to common patterns, the most used classes, and you’ll learn how to find new information as you need it.

If you’re interested in attending the conference, or even just the workshop, you can use this discount code: WDN09RB. This will get you $50 off, making the conference $745 before December 14th, or the standalone workshop $195.

Here’s some marketing content directly from Web Directions:

Web Directions is a highly focussed conference and workshops for web designers, developers, UX and ID designers, and other web professionals whose day to day job is building web sites and web applications. It features two dozen world class experts, with a razor sharp focus on practical techniques and technologies you can use right away to build even better sites.

http://north.webdirections.org/

Web Directions North features

• 8 half day workshops
• the brand new full day Ed Directions North, for those teaching web professionals
• a two track, two day conference, featuring over 20 sessions

Thankfully, for those of us who couldn’t make it, FOWA has put up a video of the highlights from the talk. Check it out:

You can also follow along with the slides:

If you’re lucky enough to be attending FOWA, make sure to catch his talk tomorrow (October 9th) at 17:10 (5:10 pm) on the Developer track.

Francisco will be presenting a brief overview of Cappuccino during a 5 minute lightning talk (11:05-11:10 am), as well as a full length presentation called “The Road to Cappuccino” (1:05-2:05 pm), which will provide a more in depth overview of the technologies, as well as a history and rationale of the development of Cappuccino.

The Road to Cappuccino

with Francisco Tolmasky, Co-Founder, 280 North; Creator, Objective-J programming language

This session explores the story behind the development of the Objective-J language and Cappuccino frameworks. This will not only serve as an introduction to building Cappuccino applications, but also shed some light on why this particular course was chosen when developing these technologies.  Francisco discusses the future of the open source project and the next steps being taken with Objective-J and Cappuccino.

Cappuccino/Objective-J

with Francisco Tolmasky, Co-Founder, 280 North; Objective-J programming language

This lightening round introduces Cappuccino and Objective-J and the road to going open source. Cappuccino was implemented using a new programming language called Objective-J, which is modeled after Objective-C and built entirely on top of JavaScript. Programs written in Objective-J are interpreted in the client, so no compilation or plug-ins are required. Hear from Francisco Tolmasky, creator of the Objective-J language.

If you’re at AJAX Experience, be sure to check out these talks, and introduce yourself to Francisco! (don’t worry, he doesn’t bite, usually)