[Seaside] Developer section on Swiki

[Derek Brans]

Hi Avi,

> This looks pretty good.  Your proposed list of projects is pretty
> interesting - what would SqueakNuke be, for example? (I have only a 
> vague
> idea of what PHPNuke is...).
PHPNuke, or its more advanced offspring: PostNuke, is a web portal 
system, all setup to handle: users, groups, security, ratings, comments, 
user emails, news, xmlrpc, polls, downloads and a plethora of other 
modules.
Written in PHP with a mySQL backend.  The site is installed and 
administered through a web interface.  Checkout http://www.postnuke.com 
for a more info.
>
> As for the list of projects, I'd add View Library to the core - I'm
> personally as interested at this point in a set of high level
> widgets and layout managers as I am in a template engine.  It's also
> something that I have few preconceived notions about, so it might make a
> good community project if others were interested.
>
> Derek, it's neat to have someone thinking about this kind of
> infrastructure; I'm curious to see whether it gets enough use to warrant
> the work you're putting into it ;-).
>
My biggest handicap to helping more is the lack of Squeak and Seaside 
documentation.  Even code comments would be useful.  Has commenting code 
gone out of style recently?  What does the "IA" prefix mean?  How do you 
pronounce Borges and what does it mean?  The tutorials have been 
excellent, fun and instructive with great examples, but we need lots 
more.  Avi, if you want to sit down for a couple hours and explain some 
stuff to me, I will gladly help with documentation.  Better 
documentation means more people know what they are doing and can help 
out.

Take care,
Derek

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