Re: T5 : [ANN] The book - next steps

2008-09-05 Thread Angelo Turetta
Howard Lewis Ship wrote: I would say that step 1 would be to collaborative design and implement the sample application. From that, the outline and division of tasks should be more attainable. Oh, yes! That would also make an excellent living tutorial (someone mentioned PetStore; yes, somethin

Re: T5 : [ANN] The book - next steps

2008-09-04 Thread Alex Kotchnev
Tim, regarding the application accompanying the book, I think that the first chapter of the book doesn't necessarily have to have a full blown application, fully completed with all bells and whistles. It only needs to be good enough working application, that could have a "black blox" part that w

Re: T5 : [ANN] The book - next steps

2008-09-04 Thread Alex Kotchnev
Just to wrap up the initial discussion on this thread, I'll respond here. Any future discussion should probably occur on the Google Groups. I've taken a liking to BitBucket (http://www.bitbucket.org/), which is quite similar to what assemla seems to offer, but also has Mercurial repository, which

Re: T5 : [ANN] The book - next steps

2008-09-04 Thread Richard Clark
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Howard Lewis Ship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would say that step 1 would be to collaborative design and implement > the sample application. From that, the outline and division of tasks > should be more attainable. Let me second that :) When I was building progr

Re: T5 : [ANN] The book - next steps

2008-09-04 Thread Howard Lewis Ship
I would say that step 1 would be to collaborative design and implement the sample application. From that, the outline and division of tasks should be more attainable. On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Don Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4 Sep 2008, at 17:05, Timothy Sweetser wrote: > >> Whe

Re: T5 : [ANN] The book - next steps

2008-09-04 Thread Timothy Sweetser
Ah, should clarify a point: I wasn't arguing for a completely unstructured environment, just one organized by scope and topic. Break it down, for example, into IoC Container, App-level Configuration and Processing, Pages, Components, Forms, Built-in Components, Integration with Hibernate/Spring/etc

Re: T5 : [ANN] The book - next steps

2008-09-04 Thread Don Ryan
On 4 Sep 2008, at 17:05, Timothy Sweetser wrote: When people only have an hour a day, and may only write a paragraph or two, I think that works against us. You decrease the contribution pool and increase the amount of effort required to get somewhere. That's a fair point. The sort of thi

Re: T5 : [ANN] The book - next steps

2008-09-04 Thread Timothy Sweetser
The problem with building the book, from the start, around a working application (or, vise versa, building an application during the course of the book), in my mind, is that it requires far more cooperation and coordination between the contributors. I don't think it really works to the strengths o

Re: T5 : [ANN] The book - next steps

2008-09-04 Thread Don Ryan
The discussion here (knowingly or otherwise) mirrors something that comes up a lot when people are debating the pedagogical approaches in academia. A framework like Tapestry, which comes into its own on larger projects, is not served well by using toy examples to illustrate framework featur

RE: T5 : [ANN] The book - next steps

2008-09-04 Thread Newham, Cameron
roAdmin Dariusz Dwornikowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 September 2008 19:31 To: Tapestry users Subject: Re: T5 : [ANN] The book - next steps I really would love to see a walkthrough on making blog application in tapestry5+spring+hibernate. Not only the integration, but how to implement s

Re: T5 : [ANN] The book - next steps

2008-09-03 Thread Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo
Em Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:44:06 -0300, Howard Lewis Ship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: So far, my experience has been to say "We're using Hibernate. It looks like this. Just play along for now." and that seems to work. I'm not teaching Hibernate, just explaining enough to satisfy the demands o

Re: T5 : [ANN] The book - next steps

2008-09-03 Thread Howard Lewis Ship
So far, my experience has been to say "We're using Hibernate. It looks like this. Just play along for now." and that seems to work. I'm not teaching Hibernate, just explaining enough to satisfy the demands of the lab. And I think there's great value in the fact that the applications are "real".

Re: T5 : [ANN] The book - next steps

2008-09-03 Thread Timothy Sweetser
Instead of debating the book's structure first, why don't we start out by just breaking it down into the various topics and subtopics (excluding introductions, tutorials, and "prolonged examples") and working on them? From my perspective, the priority should be first on compiling and organizing inf

Re: T5 : [ANN] The book - next steps

2008-09-03 Thread Patrick Moore
I would suggest that you get a way from the linear, single path flow of writing book. I have stopped reading most technical books because they assume that I am a beginner and am going to read the book in a strictly serial manner. I would suggest that rather than be chapter focused that you be co

Re: T5 : [ANN] The book - next steps

2008-09-03 Thread Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo
Em Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:31:05 -0300, ProAdmin Dariusz Dwornikowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: Tapestry alone is no use if you do not have DB. As a instructor of Java, Hibernate, Spring and other frameworks, my experience says that people learn way better when they're learning just one

Re: T5 : [ANN] The book - next steps

2008-09-03 Thread ProAdmin Dariusz Dwornikowski
I really would love to see a walkthrough on making blog application in tapestry5+spring+hibernate. Not only the integration, but how to implement simple blog with it, design DAOs, where to put them etc. Tapestry alone is no use if you do not have DB. In advanced topics I would like to see ex. acegi

Re: T5 : [ANN] The book - next steps

2008-09-03 Thread Howard Lewis Ship
Looked at the TOC. My thoughts on writing the book line up closely with how I've written the Tapestry Workshop. I can tell you that, in the Workshop, we are using Hibernate in the first session (the Workshop consists of themed sessions, with labs inside the session). In other words, focus on how

Re: T5 : [ANN] The book - next steps

2008-09-03 Thread Hugo Palma
Just an idea, maybe hosting the book on assembla (http://www.assembla.com) would fit this project needs better. I've used assembla with great success in the past, it has all the things we need, an SVN repo, a forum, a chat room, an issue tracker, and more... Alex Kotchnev wrote: I've created

Re: T5 : [ANN] The book - next steps

2008-09-03 Thread Chris Lewis
Awesome! I'll try to have a look in a couple of hours, and if I can make the time, I'd like to contribute either in raw content and/or collaborative editing. As for a discussion channel for the book, why not use google-groups? Alex Kotchnev wrote: > I've created a new project for the proposed book

T5 : [ANN] The book - next steps

2008-09-02 Thread Alex Kotchnev
I've created a new project for the proposed book at http://code.google.com/p/tapestry5-book , and posted the proposed table of contents at http://code.google.com/p/tapestry5-book/wiki/ProposedTableOfContents . Now that I'm looking at it, it's a little disappointing as the TOC doesn't really have an