Re: [Webmacro-devel] What's Next

[Marc P. <ma...@an...>]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 08:02:52 -0700, Lane Sharman <la...@op...> 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What's next?
>
> What do you want to do with WM? Status quo? Release 2? Knock off some 
> wish list items? What?

I'm too busy to contribute at the moment as some of you may have 
guessed... change of scene writing games in J2ME MIDP CLDC for mobile 
phones.

However I'm still using WM extensively:

1. We are using WM as a Java preprocessor of sorts to do conditional 
compilation on our MIDP source so that debug code is always removed from 
final builds etc.

2. We are using WM + our XMLHelper to process XML files containing game 
engine data, to produce a Java source file containing constants and also a 
binary file (using a custom binary output helper) that is loaded by the 
game engine.

3. We are using WM + another custom helper to combine many binary files 
into one, generating XML that contains data relating to these binary files.

4. The other night I wrote what must be the most trivial "blog" style 
content management system in under an hour, producing both WAP content 
 from it and also using JavaScript in a nice way to allow embedding of news 
feeds in any HTML page without any server side scripting - the feeds are 
hosted by my Ignition webapp and any site can embed them in their HTML 
with custom styling, with just 2 lines of code. It's all just a quick and 
dirty hack but works very, very well.

Just a success story or two to pass on....

Yes, Ignition WILL be released at some point, hopefully soon.

Marc
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