Mark, Yes, I absolutely plan on writing some short tutorials once I feel a little more comfortable with my knowledge in the area. I could also release the code once I get it cleaned up a bit, if people think that it would be useful or interesting having it as another Lift sample.
- Spencer On Jul 6, 7:20 am, Mark Essel <mes...@gmail.com> wrote: > If there was a way I could get an upload of your recent scala/lift > knowledge I'd be much appreciated. Any chance you'll create some > tutorials on the making of Spencer? I signed up on the site. > I'm working on a project that matches social media status, user > profile history, and eventually their influential social graph members > to contextual nonintrusive ads. > I've had to create the shell in php just to get a prototype working > but I prefer building it in scala w/ lift (had some netbeans ant build > issues with plain scala libs). > > On Jul 6, 12:36 am, Spencer Uresk <sur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > I hope this isn't considered spammy, but I wanted to send out a link > > to a new website I built using Lift and share my experiences as a > > Scala and Lift newbie. > > > I've played around with Scala off and on for over a year now, and also > > looked at Lift once or twice during that time. After going to David > > Pollak's session at JavaOne about Lift, I decided to buckle down and > > actually create something with Scala and Lift, as I usually learn new > > things best by trying to create something useful. Looking around, I > > noticed there weren't any Scala-specific job sites and thought it > > might be nice to create one. > > > Going into it, I was a little concerned about HTML being embedded in > > Scala code, as the workflow (in both my day job and for my side work) > > is typically a designer cutting HTML and handing it to me to > > implement. I made sure my designer gave me valid XHTML and was > > pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to make my HTML code work in > > Lift. Even the user signup and login forms, which I got from the > > Mapper library, were easy to override with my HTML. > > > On the other hand, I sort of underestimated the time investment > > required to get a simple site working. Lift really does require a good > > understanding of Scala, and I found myself frustrated by stupid things > > because of it. In the past, when learning Groovy and Ruby, I've used > > their respective frameworks to learn the language itself, and I found > > that didn't work quite as well with Lift. I'm not really complaining - > > I know that the time invested will pay off handsomely in the future - > > just making an observation. > > > Really, I can't complain too much about the time it took to get up to > > speed - I was able to get a functioning, albeit simple, site developed > > in basically a long weekend, without having prior experience with Lift > > outside of messing with the examples for a few minutes. Here is the > > site I made: > > >http://www.scalacareers.com/ > > > Obviously it is pretty simple, but I hope it is useful. I have a bunch > > of other features I want to add to it as I continue to learn Lift, but > > if any of you have suggestions for me, please feel free to send them > > on over. > > > Thank you for creating such a useful framework and for being such a > > friendly and helpful community - that really does make a big > > difference when first approaching a new language and framework! > > > - Spencer > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
