Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-10 Thread liigo
Kalle Korhonen: "By now, you probably have a fairly good idea how you could improve things and I'd hate to have the first book on Tapestry5 to already become outdated right away if you start on T5.2 only after releasing the book." Kalle Korhonen: "Yes, there are a few active committers but the com

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-10 Thread Peter Stavrinides
. best wishes! Peter - Original Message - From: "Borut Bolčina" To: "Tapestry users" Sent: Tuesday, 10 November, 2009 12:58:34 GMT +02:00 Athens, Beirut, Bucharest, Istanbul Subject: Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry And of course we can mak

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-10 Thread Borut Bolčina
And of course we can make more of this: http://www.questionpro.com/akira/ShowResults?id=1151880&mode=data The above was initiated long time ago: http://bbwebcraft.blogspot.com/2009/02/wishlist-and-survey-for-tapestry-5.html -borut 2009/11/10 Borut Bolčina > Hi, > > 2009/11/10 Inge Solvoll > >

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-10 Thread Borut Bolčina
Hi, 2009/11/10 Inge Solvoll > Maybe it would be a good idea to find out what most newcomers ask for, and > just put it in there, even if it doesn't make that much sense? It COULD > attract more people. > > That is exactly why I opened http://tapestry5.ideascale.com/ -borut

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-09 Thread Inge Solvoll
There are features that could help gain attention to the framework. A lot of people ask for the same things on this list: - How to submit with a select - How to make dependent selects that works with AJAX. - How to easily make "custom" AJAX functionality (not necessarily forms) Maybe it would be

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-09 Thread Michael Gentry
I thought I had been through most of the site, but I had never seen the shadow services page. Thanks for the link, Howard! mrg On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Howard Lewis Ship wrote: > You know how you can inject the Request?  Well the Request service is > really an extension of the per-threa

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-09 Thread Michael Gentry
I think documentation and small/focused cookbook-type examples (thank goodness for JumpStart) are the biggest hurdle to people learning and using T5 currently. (At least that is my experience.) The user community and framework are robust, but figuring out how to do something can be challenging at

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-09 Thread Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo
Em Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:35:09 -0200, Michael Gentry escreveu: Shadow builders? I've only been using T5 for about 2 months now. When do I learn about shadow builders? :-) The documentation is here. The concept is simple. :) -- Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo Independent Java, Apache Tapestry

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-09 Thread Howard Lewis Ship
You know how you can inject the Request? Well the Request service is really an extension of the per-thread RequestGlobals object, which stores the Request and Response. Turns out, Tapestry can implement this approach for you automatically; creating a proxy object that delegates all of its method

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-09 Thread Michael Gentry
Shadow builders? I've only been using T5 for about 2 months now. When do I learn about shadow builders? :-) mrg On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Carl Crowder wrote: > Agreed: the main thing Tapestry is lacking is a book that explains not just > the basics but also concepts that it takes months

Re: Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-09 Thread Sergey Didenko
I would prioritize the directions in the following way: 1) T5.1.1.x with important bugfixes 2) The website ( the future book can be just a compilation and extension of website materials) 3-4) T5.2 and book - To unsubscribe, e-m

Re: Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-09 Thread Wilson Ikeda
try, go to the tapestry site, the documentation is awesome!". Just my thoughts! On Nov 9, 2009, at 9:35 PM, Inge Solvoll wrote: From: Inge Solvoll Date: November 9, 2009 5:34:33 PM GMT+09:00 To: Tapestry users Subject: Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry Book. Web site

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-09 Thread Otho
+1 for code The Tap 5 codebase lacks aome givens in nowadays development. Getting a simple app up and running with basic user management and security shouldn't take longer than 10 minutes and also flow support out of the box is mandatory. Other than that the online docs and tutorials should be co

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-09 Thread Vjeran Marcinko
I think you should write the book, but only if there's going to be a T5.1.1.x set of releases with bugfixes - this is long overdue in my opinion. (we have too many 'temporary' tapestry fixes - > it's annoying & embarrassing) I don't think there's any pressing need for T5.2 yet (IMHO) but there

RE: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-09 Thread Blower, Andy
I think you should write the book, but only if there's going to be a T5.1.1.x set of releases with bugfixes - this is long overdue in my opinion. (we have too many 'temporary' tapestry fixes - it's annoying & embarrassing) I don't think there's any pressing need for T5.2 yet (IMHO) but there are

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-09 Thread Inge Solvoll
Book. Web site. Marketing. Strategy. Just to make a statement here: THE TAPESTRY 5 CODE IS MORE THAN GOOD ENOUGH!! The quality of the code and the framework just isn't the bottleneck. I think we all can agree on that? Who cares about Spring Web Flow or portlet support? Do we really think that suc

RE: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-09 Thread Newham, Cameron
You need to write the book IMO. We've seen several attempts to start a book* on here but it hasn't happened and probably won't. Others will contribute to the current code. 5.2 can wait, I'm sure. * an English Tapestry 5 book, that is. -Original Message- From: Howard [mailto:hls...@gmai

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-08 Thread Kalle Korhonen
Howard, you touch too many points to make a very concise reply, but I agree with many others encouraging you to continue coding 5.2 before you start writing a book. By now, you probably have a fairly good idea how you could improve things and I'd hate to have the first book on Tapestry5 to already

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-08 Thread Igor Drobiazko
Hi Alex, I'll ask the publisher again and suggest your idea. 08.11.2009, в 17:41, Alex Kotchnev написал(а): Igor : just an idea on the translation front. I know that the NetBeans community already did two "community translated" books from German, so it might be interesting if the same mode

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-08 Thread Alex Kotchnev
Igor : just an idea on the translation front. I know that the NetBeans community already did two "community translated" books from German, so it might be interesting if the same model is possible in the Tapestry community. I think it was mostly a volunteer effort but it got two NetBeans RCP books t

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-08 Thread Igor Drobiazko
Well, I think you should do what you feel is best for you right now. If you need a timeout from coding then write a book. If you feel a book will take too much of your time then code again. I'm still hoping my publisher will translate my book. So maybe there will be an english book even if you deci

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-08 Thread Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo
Couldn't it be a hybrid approach? One day or week coding Tapestry, then the next writing the book? By the way, I'd love write a Tapestry book. One company here at Belo Horizonte, Brazil has just contracted me to have both introductory and advanced Tapestry courses. My plans are to write the textb

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-08 Thread Tom Pfotzer
Howard: I agree with the posters that say "refine your code-base" as priority one, and I agree that writing the book is a very close priority two. So the question isn't really which should you do, as both are crucial to Tapestry the product and it's community of users. The problem is how best to

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-08 Thread Vjeran Marcinko
I understand that book would be valuable addition to Tapestry, but I would also prefer you to spend your time doing the coding, and if I may add, not so much on new features (like Spring Web Flow), but more on improving already present ideas since there are many places for improvement. One thing

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-08 Thread Ivano Luberti
Howard, why don't collaborate with Igor to have the book in Engllish? Instead of starting a new project for it you can try to have Igor book as a starting point or even better a final point and only have to translate a commonly reviewed version and publish it together . I understand you want to ha

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-07 Thread Michael Gerzabek
Carl Crowder schrieb: Agreed: the main thing Tapestry is lacking is a book that explains not just the basics but also concepts that it takes months of working with Tapestry to discover. Things like shadow builders and so on. I don't care who writes one as long as there's a definitive guide! +1

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-07 Thread cuartz
I think both are necessary to make tapestry more popular, but i think would be better if you work on code, tapestry is already known by a lot of people, i’m a 24 years old Mexican and in my 3 years of experience i already have been part of 2 tapestry 5 big projects, the first last 10 months and i’

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-07 Thread Piero Sartini
> So the question is: do I wait and see if time opens up in Q1 to > actually start on a T5 book ... or do I jump into 5.2 coding and leave > books to others? +1 for coding, as there already is a very good book available (written by Igor). Why do it twice - what's lacking is just an english transl

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-07 Thread Antonio Fernández
+1 "Bible" Book :-) Antonio Carl Crowder escribió: Agreed: the main thing Tapestry is lacking is a book that explains not just the basics but also concepts that it takes months of working with Tapestry to discover. Things like shadow builders and so on. I don't care who writes one as long as

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-07 Thread Ulrich Stärk
There already is one - written by Igor - but unfortunately not (yet?) available in English. Uli Carl Crowder schrieb: Agreed: the main thing Tapestry is lacking is a book that explains not just the basics but also concepts that it takes months of working with Tapestry to discover. Things like

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-07 Thread Carl Crowder
Agreed: the main thing Tapestry is lacking is a book that explains not just the basics but also concepts that it takes months of working with Tapestry to discover. Things like shadow builders and so on. I don't care who writes one as long as there's a definitive guide! jose luis sanchez wrote:

Re: [Tapestry Central] Next Steps for Tapestry

2009-11-07 Thread jose luis sanchez
Book ! Book ! Book ! El 07/11/2009, a las 19:11, Howard escribió: I've been consciously letting Tapestry 5.1 sit and stabilize for a while ... a time that's stretched a few months longer than I initially intended. This is due to a number of factors: my return to independent consulting, my desir