[ipn-devel] Torque & Turbine Developer Kit

[Jonathan C. <jon...@ya...>]

Robbe,  
Thanks for doing the Torque data model conversion task.  We'll be 
looking forward to seeing what you've done.  :-)

Everyone,
I just got the example app in the TDK running with MySQL as the DB.  I 
had to follow the "bread-crumb" directions, but eventually got it all 
running.  Looking back, it wasn't that hard.  Previously, I had been 
stuck trying to make it work with Hypersonic.

I'm thinking we should all download the TDK and get the example app 
(newapp) running on our own machine, unless Robbe has a stripped-down 
TDK that we can start with.  Any thoughts on that Robbe?  It would be 
nice to get rid of any extraneous stuff in the TDK, but maybe it's all 
going to be needed eventually anyways.  I'm curious how many have done 
this or are going to do this.  I only know of Robbe and Dave so far. 
 Dave actually has it running on his external intranet server.  If he 
wants to share the web address others can go look at it.

However we do it, it sure wouldn't hurt for everyone to download MySQL 
and the TDK and follow the instructions to get the newapp running.  It 
will take setting this stuff up a couple of times for people to become 
comfortable with it anyways.  Let me know if you have trouble finding stuff.

I'm looking forward to getting to the place where we each can contribute 
in an area that we know best (although I hope we'll do some 
"cross-pollinating" too).  Eventually there will probably be data model 
people and some Velocity template (UI) people and some "Pull Tool" 
people (The future of Turbine is in creating "Pull Tool" implementations 
to allow the UI to change without necessarily having to change the Java 
code).

Doing development this way is all new to me so, as time goes on, feel 
free to tell me how you think things are going.  If there are a few who 
want to have a big role in making this all happen, I would be overjoyed. 
 Robbe and Dave seem to have the interest and time there.  But I'm 
hoping that there will be a cast of others who will be able to 
contribute in smaller ways too.  It'll be interesting to see how our 
team takes shape in the coming weeks and months.

Take care,

Jonathan


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