I am not sure I can even try to get close to the "philosophy" as I
consider myself still a newcomer to Camping. So I am missing a lot of
the background on Camping (even though I have read quite a few
materials, books, posts, videos, etc. about _why's contributions.
For me, I love Camping because:
- it is small
- the code is crazy clever and taught me a lot about things I did not
know about Ruby metaprogramming
- the MVC structure help me structure my thoughts and apps
- it is very extensible once you figure out the extensibility points
you need
- creating all sorts of apps or services is really fun and enjoyable
- you can build some decent size/complexity apps if you try (I don't
subscribe to the analogy about the "dark side" as I feel Camping is
about freedom to build whatever you want)
- you can either use it for play or for work (that tends to happen if
you like it so much you want everything to be built with it.
- it can capture your imagination in terms of what you could use it
for (e.g. the fun/play/learn sandbox idea)
Philippe (@techarch)
PS -I have deployed apps on Heroku and will help with the deployment
section of the book
On 8/23/2010 3:05 AM, Jenna Fox wrote:
The camping website (new one) includes a link to a not-existant wiki page
called 'Philosophy', which was inherited from Judofyr's version. I keep meaning
to create this article, but I'm increasingly wondering...
What do we all feel is Camping's philosophy?
My take: Camping is all about hacking and exploring and having fun, and
certainly isn't serious business. I think it's also for newbies, including
kids, because that's what nearly all of _why's projects were for.
But that's very past tense. I'm not sure anymore. What do you all see camping
as being? What's it's purpose for you?
—
Jenna
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