Addition for the netzke reference
http://github.com/skozlov/netzke
Maybe in rails 3 no longer needed (?) since merb will be migrated
inside rails 3?


On Feb 24, 12:19 am, rubybox <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have started on CE with compass + SASS ( blueprint ) and recreating
> the theme,
> cleaning out a lot of stuff not needed, refactoring code sections
> although I have had a hard time with the haml and have stopped this
> transition for now
> since there are some essential features I still miss in CE like full
> groups support ( forums for groups, etc )
> This work is in the staters so not really anything usefull to share.
>
> Also I have thought about a better UI looking at several popular
> community based portal sites (not facebook.com) to copy serveral
> layout
> ideas from there, they are good inspiration. Although for my personal
> usage im very interested in CE and continue to keep looking at it,
> for now this is a side project for spare personal time.
>
> I think the templating could be redone much cleaner, making more usage
> of helpers to create blocks of code there is a lot of double
> functionality in the views
> they could be much dryer, it can be done but it would take a haml +
> sass guru to really do this fast, else its a considerable work.
>
> If anyone has anything interesting going on with the CE templates
> please let it know, im willing to work on something only hold back now
> because it takes
> to much time to do alone, maybe start a github project for a better CE
> template bruno and let several of us including hopefully yourself work
> on a cleaner theme.
> Cleaning up  the CE code and solidfy and improve quality of current
> features would be good anyway. CE has lots of potential.
>
> On Feb 10, 6:49 pm, Bruno Bornsztein <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > No progress that I know of. Dezmond?
>
> > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Levi Rosol <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hey guys. I'm curious where this stands. Any progress being made on this
> > > front?
>
> > > --
> > > Levi Rosol
> > > Twitter: @LeviRosol
>
> > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Bruno Bornsztein <
> > > [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >> I have a couple branches in this private repo for my client. One is
> > >>> using blueprint and the other is using YUI. Switching to blueprint
> > >>> will require a lot more work but I think that in the end it would be
> > >>> more rewarding. (besides I *really* don't like YUI its just seems less
> > >>> elegant) However, cleaning things up and installing SASS for YUI would
> > >>> be MUCH faster. Which do you think would be preferable?
>
> > >> I'd start with using cleaning up the templates and using SASS.
>
> > >>> I try my best to avoid hacking around in someone else's models or
> > >>> controllers. I figure if I have to touch more than a couple of lines
> > >>> of code I have the wrong tool/plugin/gem and I should look for
> > >>> something else or build my own. That is one reason that I like CE. I
> > >>> can do all sorts of cool UI stuff without touching the CE Models or
> > >>> Controllers. With that being the case there shouldn't be any backwards
> > >>> compatibility issues that can't be handled very easily.
>
> > >> True, as far as models and controllers go. But it you start changing
> > >> templates (partials, for example), you might screw up someone's app if
> > >> they're expecting that partial to look or behave a certain way. Make 
> > >> sense?
> > >> The idea (at least to start), is to refactor the templates and CSS 
> > >> without
> > >> changing the appearance or UI.
>
> > >> Thanks! Looking forward to seeing what you've done,
> > >> Bruno
>
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