Re: [Exist-open] [ANN] eXist-db based Project - XML Summer School

[Adam R. <ad...@ex...>]

Okay,

So I have uploaded a 0.3 version yesterday, and I have checked that it
has the same checksum on the server as it does here on my laptop. So
hopefully that one will work for you all. FYI -

md5sum: 3a5b4bb4b02dc8c44fb3c6133ae255ee

On 20 June 2011 17:52, Adam Retter <ad...@ex...> wrote:
> Hmm okay so it sounds like 0.2 file that I uploaded may be corrupt
> somehow. I will try and upload another file soon, in the meantime, you
> could try the 0.1 file - its basically exactly the same exact larger
> file size.
>
> On 19 June 2011 23:37, Joe Wicentowski <jo...@gm...> wrote:
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>> Sounds very interesting.  I was trying to give the VM a try but have
>> hit a problem.  Here's what I did (this is on my Mac OS X 10.6.7 box).
>>  First, I downloaded the .ova file (v0.2) and confirmed the sha1 value
>> matched that displayed on sourceforge.  Second, not familiar with
>> .ova, I searched around and found that VirtualBox opens .ova files, so
>> I downloaded the software from virtualbox.org (v.4.0.8) and installed
>> it.  Third, I opened the .ova file in VirtualBox (File > Import
>> Appliance) and got the following error:
>>
>> Failed to import appliance
>> /Users/joe/Downloads/XMLSS11-Test-VM-0.2.ova.  Could not read OVF file
>> 'XMLSS-Test-VM-0.2.ova' (VERR_TAR_END_OF_FILE).
>> Result Code: VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80BB0004)
>> Component: Appliance
>> Interface: IAppliance {7b148032-4124-4f46-b56a-b48ac1273f5a}
>>
>> Do you have any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Joe
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Adam Retter <ad...@ex...> wrote:
>>> As suggested I have managed to shrink the size of the downloadable VM
>>> to 1.9GB from 3.6GB.
>>> Also as requested, I replaced the Chromium browser in the VM with the
>>> official Chrome.
>>>
>>> Thanks Adam.
>>>
>>> On 9 June 2011 12:06, Adam Retter <ad...@ex...> wrote:
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I am pleased to announce the first beta release of a small Open Source
>>>> project (mostly) based on eXist-db for the XML Summer School
>>>> http://xmlsummerschool.com/
>>>>
>>>> The XML Summer School, use an example application to teach XML
>>>> beginners the fundamentals of XPath, XQuery, XSLT, XSL-FO, XML Schema,
>>>> XForms and associated technologies during their week long training
>>>> course.
>>>>
>>>> The applications they use has recently been re-created from Scratch,
>>>> and the main application is now written in XQuery, XSLT and XForms and
>>>> runs atop eXist-db 1.5-dev with betterForm.
>>>>
>>>> As an example for eXist-db developers, the application has 4
>>>> particularly interesting aspects -
>>>> 1) It makes heavy use of XQuery URL Rewriting (controller.xql) to use
>>>> nice descriptive URI's for resources and operations on those
>>>> resources.
>>>> 2) It uses betterForm XForms almost exclusively for all forms needs,
>>>> and post processes the XML instances with XQuery.
>>>> 3) It uses a templating system, where each new page is a collection of
>>>> xhtml snippet documents that are recombined with processed content by
>>>> substitution of xhtml elements with matching id's. I plan to
>>>> eventually develop this into a complete project of its own providing a
>>>> by-convention framework for rapid development of XRX applications.
>>>> 4) It takes to another application, by making RESTful calls directly
>>>> from XQurery.
>>>>
>>>> You can find the source code and a pre-configured Virtual Machine for
>>>> running the example applications here -
>>>> http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/seewhatithink
>>>>
>>>> The training materials used alongside this are also available under
>>>> Creative Commons licensing from the projects Subversion repository.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Adam.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Adam Retter
>>>>
>>>> eXist Developer
>>>> { United Kingdom }
>>>> ad...@ex...
>>>> irc://irc.freenode.net/existdb
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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