http://www.coactivate.org/projects/buildoutbuilder/blog Just another weblog Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:51:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en All,    A new demo is up.   http://xkenneth.homelinux.com:8080/lps-4.1.1/my-apps/work/buildoutbuilder/buildoutbuilder.laszlo/src/buildoutbuilder.lzx   Hit it quick before my IP changes! ( I'll setup dyndns sooner or later. ) I'll post a much more in depth post soon.   Regards, Ken http://www.coactivate.org/projects/buildoutbuilder/blog/2008/08/19/demo-up-with-editor/ I'm hosting this off of my home server, so of my IP changes or something the demo will go down (i just haven't setup a dyndns updater yet.) The buildout viewer is up and running, and this proves out all of the basic mechanisms. The buildout DOM exchanges are ... http://www.coactivate.org/projects/buildoutbuilder/blog/2008/08/05/demo-up/ All,     I'm making good headway on the project, and I will be posting a demo tomorrow night. The backend is essentially complete, and I'm working on useability from the user perspective. The OpenLaszlo toolkit has proved to be amazingly flexible and fast.    There were some concerns mentioned about using ... http://www.coactivate.org/projects/buildoutbuilder/blog/2008/08/04/status-update-2/   All,      I've been quite satisified with developing on a combined OpenLaszlo/Grok platform. Creating the user interface for the BB is on an order of a few magnitudes simpler than with plane grok/kss. I have found grok as an extremely simple to use persistent backend (as a replacement for CGI,) ... http://www.coactivate.org/projects/buildoutbuilder/blog/2008/07/26/nearing-demo/  All, Here's a quick status update as to where I am on the project. Goal - A simple structure for representing a buildout in a DOM. This will be the standard interface method between the front and back ends.The front end should be able to make changes to a DOM ... http://www.coactivate.org/projects/buildoutbuilder/blog/2008/07/22/status-update/  Trying to create a rich ajax web app with grok and KSS is stupid.     I've been playing with different ways to build the editable interface for the project using grok/KSS for a while now, and it's honestly time consuming, repetitive, and painful. I realize there's probably better ways to do ... http://www.coactivate.org/projects/buildoutbuilder/blog/2008/07/15/openlaszlo-and-grok/     As you all know I've been quite dormant for a period of time, I've had some extremely unexpected events occur in my life that have completely derailed my work and the Buildout Builder. I am now however pushing forward and moving on with the project. I have ... http://www.coactivate.org/projects/buildoutbuilder/blog/2008/07/15/project-status/ All,   It's been a while since my last update but here goes! Edit Interface  I spent this weekend getting rather familiar with grok and KSS. I have to say I really enjoy working in Grok, and not having to write any Javascript to use AJAX is a huge benefit. I've nearly finished working ... http://www.coactivate.org/projects/buildoutbuilder/blog/2008/06/22/phase-2-underway/ So my self-imposed date for phase 1 has come and past, but did I meet my requirements? Well let's see....   May 26th: Discuss and finalize options for hosting the Buildout Builder. Begin initial code work. Phase one begins.  Check.Week One (May 26th to June 1st): Familiarization with buildoutsystem. Hand pick selected stack configurations and test buildouts.  I didn't ... http://www.coactivate.org/projects/buildoutbuilder/blog/2008/06/16/phase-1-review/ So the PartManager seems to be working now, i was able to decompose a buildout into it's representative objects, recompose it back into a file, and the build the buildout!Everything was rearranged (sections appeared in a different order, as well as options, although multi-line options remained unaffected,) but the buildout ... http://www.coactivate.org/projects/buildoutbuilder/blog/2008/06/03/first-successful-test-of-an-auto-generated-buildout/