Re: [binarycloud-dev] binarycloud vs. other web app frameworks

[Alex B. <en...@tu...>]

> ok, i was afraid you were going to say that ;) actually, i'm very
> interesting in getting involved with binarycloud, especially because you
> seem to be very groovy stuff with xml/xslt, although i don't fully
> understand how it all fits together yet, especially the 'entity'
> concept.

This will be the subject of many posts, and detailed docs.

> Now this is something very cool that I've tried out at
> binarycloud.com/bc_edit... too bad it's only supported bye IE5.5+

yeah...
ns is falling...


> never done it, but i usually get convinced into using this kinda stuff
> quite easily :)

heh :)


> i know pear has this, i think it was written by ulf wendel and that he's
> got extensive docs online on his website, but all in german (argh!).
> consequence: i don't even understand the concept of a 'caching module'.
> anyone care to explain??

ok, say I have this nice page, which has 5 modules. each of these modules
pulls content out of the database, and formats it with xslt.

for a page that is 'static' i.e. you're just getting content from the
database that doesn't rely on the userid or any session specific stuff..

it makes sense to take the html output of that page render, and put it in a
file on the webserver.

so next time a request comes in for that page, the cacher just pulls it out
of the filesystem and serves it instead of going through:
    query
    xml
    xslt


>> This is a point, but what we're trying to do is actually much more
>> integrated with the system than "just a cms"
> 
> true. all that i'm afraid of is that 'implementing' a cms with this
> groovy state-of-the-art framework could be more timeconsuming and
> 'banging-your-head-against-the-wall' than just trying to use something
> that's been built allready. true, it takes the fun out of it, and limits
> the extensibility of your system...

You're welcome to do a quick conversion of another cms into binarycloud
modules. :)

But in this case, it makes sense to do it properly.


> now, this i don't get. maybe i should take a look at your 'complex
> example' post. should i take the 'r2 path release' and untar the
> 'complex example' in that tree??

oh, "complex example" is a quick xslt tutorial/show n' tell.

when I get the time I'll post a doc about entities.

-a



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