Very, very cool!

I was hoping something like this would come along for Squeak...I've used/set
up 'Squishdot', which is based on Zope...it's very nice, but the usual problem
comes when you want to upgrade Zope...what a pain.  Plus Squeak is much
more fun than Zope.

Funny...the original Slash code just got wiki features, and now the
SWiki just got Slash features. :)



On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 05:18:56PM +0100, goran.hultgren at bluefish.se wrote:
> I have been hacking webstuff the last weeks and when doing that I
> have produced a homegrown framework around Comanche.
> 
> I took Comanche, added the cookie session support by Diego Gomez Deck
> (posted on list) and finished it off by growing a small but neat
> HttpView framework around it. Since I dislike ASP/JSP solutions
> (embedding code in HTML? Come on...) and I want everything to be
> within Squeak, this framework focuses on:
> 
> - Simplicity. Like all things should be. Yes, even developing webstuff
>   can be easy. Servlets/TomCat/Struts/JSP/Beans blabla, forget it. Too
> complicated.
> - Pure Squeak. I don't even have HTML files. Everything is totally in
>   Squeak code right now.
> - Automatic mapping of urls to messages to the HttpView instances.
>   Works very good. When a method is added it is immediately addressable.
> 
> (I postponed functionality for making the HTML look good.
> I have some ideas on that too though)
> 
> The result is interesting. I feel very comfortable hacking in this
> little
> framework, easy to debug, things kept together in neat places.
> 
> I realized that a cool thing to try out would be to make a site for us -
> the Squeak community - that we could evolve together.
> I am talking about the Swiki/Squeak mentality with "direct modification"
> extended to programming a Squeakdriven website. Whua...
> 
> How that could be done is still sketchy, I wrote down a draft on the
> site -
> read it and come back to me with improvements.
> 
> I have just set up the first incarnation of this site - "SqueakDot". It
> lives on
> my development machine so it isn't official yet. But you can steal a
> look.
> It looks downright ugly - it will only interest you if you take a look
> on the
> source (which is available per page, yes of course it is straight from
> the image... :-).
> 
> Perhaps we could call it something else but since I would like it to
> evolve to
> a little "community driven" site like Slashdot, "SqueakDot" sounded
> alright as
> a workname! :-)
> 
> Currently you can't do much at all, but I am in the process
> of adding "Polls" both for account owners and public polls etc. There
> have
> been a few polls conducted on the mailinglist and that gets messy real
> quick.
> I am sure that we can come up with other interesting little "features"
> of this
> site we could add to help SqF for example.
> 
> And oh, yes, the url! :-) It's:
> 
> http://marvin.bluefish.se:8080/squeakdot
> 
> Be gentle guys...
> 
> regards, Göran
> 
> PS. The code is still a bit tangled with our other "secret" project -
> but I am
> detangling it in order to release it to the list. DS
>