Re: [Openinteract-help] Bulk SPOPS security checks?

[Andreas N. <an...@kl...>]

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 23:39, Teemu wrote:
> > .. are you talking about porting mimerdesk to OI??
> 
> Not only porting, but creating something new on top of it in the same time. It 
> will have additional functionality necessary in learning organizations and 
> education.
Today I had more time to look at it and the demo and this is really
great ! I see, you aim at the educational area, but some tools like
projects and calendar definetly have a broader usage. Acutally, you
obviously implemented quite a bit, that we are also thinking about!
Great! Also, I talked to a colleague, who does consultancy for public
schools in Germany. He said, that many larger schools are looking for
open source tools for such tasks and that there are funds for this (
called N21 ). We will check this out...

Apart from this, we have our own fund for our tools and would like to
cooperate, if this is imaginable. Our focus in the last months was to
work on a configurable workflow framework, we call NATS. As soon as we
have a sample app and more documentation, we will release this to the
open source. Looking at mimer desk, this could be hiden behind the Tasks
screen and pull in all types of tasks in the workflow?

What do you think ?
> 
> For a long time I have searched for time to get rid of current MimerDesk code 
> base (which is scarce, complicated and has its' limits) to replace it with 
> something better. OI and additional time (money) for open source development 
> came to rescue. Now I also have better possibilities to put my improved OO 
> programming kung fu in practice..
This is the key solution ! When I stumbled over OI two years ago, I was
in the middle of thinking about a self written framework, because at
that time there was really nothing you could work with - all OO Perl
things needed to be done from scratch.
Looking back, we definetly made the right decision to take OI. I am
really convinced, that there is no other tool, that can make you just as
productive - regardless of dev language.
Our first tries had there problems, of course, one of which was the
misuse of SPOPS. Also, at that time there was no
OpenInteract::CommonHandler, which is really the way to go for most
things. Then we put to much functionality in the handler packages, which
is not a good idea. Today we build separete classes that ( most of the
times ) inherit from SPOPS and put the functionality in them. This on
one side lets you use the functionality in scripts without a GUI, but
also gives you the full power directly within the templates !

later,

Andreas