Re: [web2py] Re: book revision

2010-08-01 Thread Jonathan Lundell
On Jul 26, 2010, at 9:09 AM, VP wrote: > I think the book needs some work. I'm learning web2py. I like it. > But I feel there are some "mysteries" that have not been explained in > the book. I hope you put a team on the book. Chapter 3 needs to be > thoughtfully expanded. The problem with ma

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-27 Thread mdipierro
End of August final. On Jul 27, 3:18 am, Timmie wrote: > Hello, > what date do you target as publishing date? > > Best regards, > Timmie

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-27 Thread mdipierro
Can you help? I am swamped On Jul 27, 3:22 am, Timmie wrote: > Hello, > have you tried Pandoc:http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ > > http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/try > > If you consider your markup langauge stable, why not submitting it to > the developer of Pandoc? > > Regards, > Timmie

Re: [web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-27 Thread Thadeus Burgess
And SQLFORM(onvalidate) -- Thadeus On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Thadeus Burgess wrote: > IS_IN_SET zero changes and how they work and why it is that way now. > > -- > Thadeus > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Iceberg wrote: >> On Jul 24, 5:53am, mdipierro wrote: >>> I am re

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-27 Thread Timmie
Hello, have you tried Pandoc: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/try If you consider your markup langauge stable, why not submitting it to the developer of Pandoc? Regards, Timmie

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-27 Thread Timmie
Hello, what date do you target as publishing date? Best regards, Timmie

Re: [web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-26 Thread Thadeus Burgess
IS_IN_SET zero changes and how they work and why it is that way now. -- Thadeus On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Iceberg wrote: > On Jul 24, 5:53am, mdipierro wrote: >> I am revising the book. >> >> Please list what features are not mentioned in the book or deserve >> more space they corre

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-26 Thread Iceberg
On Jul 24, 5:53am, mdipierro wrote: > I am revising the book. > > Please list what features are not mentioned in the book or deserve > more space they correctly get. > You suggestions will be appreciated. > > Massimo Not sure whether is already mentioned in this 30-post thread, anyway please inc

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-26 Thread VP
I think the book needs some work. I'm learning web2py. I like it. But I feel there are some "mysteries" that have not been explained in the book. I hope you put a team on the book. Chapter 3 needs to be thoughtfully expanded. I saw some usage inconsistencies in examples in Chapter 3, regardin

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-26 Thread mdipierro
The fact is the purpose of 3.9 is not to build a wiki but teach web2py programming. If we use plugin_wiki there users would not learn much. Moreover plugin_wiki may change after the book is completed therefore I want to use it as an example of plugin but not suggest its API will be supported in the

Re: [web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-26 Thread Johann Spies
On 25 July 2010 00:54, Garrafa Pet 2 Litros wrote: > I think it's good to review the section 3.9 that discusses the wiki > and add documentation of new features found in the plugin wiki. +1 Regards Johann --     "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a      man soweth, that shall

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-26 Thread mdipierro
I think the problem is fixed in trunk. can you try? On Jul 26, 4:51 am, Nico de Groot wrote: > Info about vitualfields, some links I use: > > http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/fa7936be97... > > Thadeus' blog about vitual links including lazy fields using a > 'inline' func

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-26 Thread Nico de Groot
Info about vitualfields, some links I use: http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/fa7936be97a82fec Thadeus' blog about vitual links including lazy fields using a 'inline' function , not working anymore in latest releases http://thadeusb.com/weblog/2009/12/31/web2py_virtualfiel

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-26 Thread mdipierro
P.S. I added this to my provate latex source (after incorporating the corrections editors posted online). I still need to convert everything in markmin syntax to post it online... this will take another month but will make some chapters available for review asap. On Jul 26, 4:43 am, mdipierro wro

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-26 Thread mdipierro
Here is where we stand: So far I added this: [x] compute fields [x] virtual fields [x] upload separate [x] crud.search [x] RPXAccount [x] new validators [x] run background tasks [x] recursive queries [x] MARKMIN helper [x] Informix support [x] named id fields [x] keyedtables [x] first() last() [x]

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-26 Thread Timmie
Hello, will the plugin system be documented? What about isses mentioned in: New features not documented in PDF book (2 ed) http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_frm/thread/208cdabdba546cd0? best regards, Timmie On 25 Jul., 02:25, mdipierro wrote: > I have identified the following items

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-26 Thread mdipierro
That is already there at the beginning of chapter 6. On Jul 26, 3:05 am, Ramjee Ganti wrote: > Hi, > > For people new to web2py like me a section which mentions all the third > party libraries that are used in web2py. eg. pyodbc for MSSQL, Mysql > conncetor for MYSQL etc. would be great help. > >

Re: [web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-25 Thread Thadeus Burgess
Update the deployment section. I never got the instructions in the book to work without tweaking, so I think it needs some fine tuning and references to web2pyslices slice 14, 29, 33, 36, 57, 64 -- Thadeus On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 5:27 PM, howesc wrote: > I use google app engine a lot, and w

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-25 Thread howesc
I use google app engine a lot, and would love to have mention in the main content of the book when features won't work on GAE. some are now, and others are only in the GAE section at the end. also not everything in http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/cd89f11de4d23b53/f67faa

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-25 Thread weheh
There are also comments embedded directly into the online book. These should be reviewed and incorporated into the new doc as deemed fit.

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread Jeff S
For new users like me, downloadable packed applications would be great with each examples in the book. A few times, the examples were not showing correctly online and the cut&paste on IE browser is not providing the line feed and carriage return showing online. Although, the packed applications d

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread Scott
Cube2py explanation along with examples for all of the widgets and how to implement. Since we're headed in that direction... :) On Jul 24, 9:08 pm, mdipierro wrote: > Thanks. this is very helpful > > On Jul 24, 7:57 pm, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > > >http://code.google.com/p/web2py-book/wiki/Book

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread mdipierro
Thanks. this is very helpful On Jul 24, 7:57 pm, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > http://code.google.com/p/web2py-book/wiki/BookGeneralIssues

Re: [web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread Jonathan Lundell
http://code.google.com/p/web2py-book/wiki/BookGeneralIssues

Re: [web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread Bruno Rocha
I would like more detailed information about testing, unittest, docTest. explaining how it works in detail, and showing a good example of a test using the 'test' in appadmin 2010/7/24 mdipierro : > I have identified the following items that are missing from the book. > Listed here in some random o

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread mdipierro
I have identified the following items that are missing from the book. Listed here in some random order. compute fields virtual fields crud.search RPXAccount new validators populate plugins LOAD and generic.load Field attributes (compute, virtualfield, uploadseparate) format, represent recursive qu

Re: [web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread Jonathan Lundell
More on the DAL objects would be nice, especially on the details of their methods. Which operations they support, how they're combined, etc. There's something there already, but it could use fleshing out.

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread Garrafa Pet 2 Litros
I think it's good to review the section 3.9 that discusses the wiki and add documentation of new features found in the plugin wiki.

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread mdipierro
Working on this as we speak. On Jul 24, 3:37 pm, weheh wrote: > Doc index needs expansion. When I was a little more of a newbie, I > know I looked in the index for keywords that I was sure should be > there, only to find them missing. At the moment, I don't recall what > they were, sorry. At the

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread weheh
Doc index needs expansion. When I was a little more of a newbie, I know I looked in the index for keywords that I was sure should be there, only to find them missing. At the moment, I don't recall what they were, sorry. At the least, every web2py function and attribute should be listed in the index

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread weheh
+1 all above suggestions. I would also suggest some more doc on the ajax interface to radio buttons, check boxes, and select lists. On Jul 23, 5:53 pm, mdipierro wrote: > I am revising the book. > > Please list what features are not mentioned in the book or deserve > more space they correctly get

Re: [web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread Johann Spies
Enough information for total javascript beginners to understand and use jqgrid and friends please. Johann -- "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true,  whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are  just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread mdipierro
{{blocks}} were put in the web2py as an experiment and we took them out because of a problem. We need to put them back in. Massimo On Jul 24, 3:44 am, Adi wrote: > - compute, virtualfields, represent and all such things that are are > db.table.field level > - a chapter on reusable logic (where t

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread Adi
- compute, virtualfields, represent and all such things that are are db.table.field level - a chapter on reusable logic (where to place it - module, model, controller, site-packages in which scenario) - templates, blocks, {{include}} in views - custom forms, including sign up forms (lots of questi

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-23 Thread mr.freeze
crud.search RPXAccount populate plugins and PluginManager any new validators LOAD On Jul 23, 5:16 pm, "mr.freeze" wrote: > Definitely these:http://web2pyslices.com/main/slices/take_slice/16 > > On Jul 23, 4:53 pm, mdipierro wrote: > > > I am revising the book. > > > Please list what features ar

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-23 Thread mr.freeze
Definitely these: http://web2pyslices.com/main/slices/take_slice/16 On Jul 23, 4:53 pm, mdipierro wrote: > I am revising the book. > > Please list what features are not mentioned in the book or deserve > more space they correctly get. > You suggestions will be appreciated. > > Massimo