Hey Spencer, cool stuff. I wish you could do a screencast or a tutorial on how did u do it. I think we need some hands on tutorial/screencast. Thanks.
On Jul 6, 12:36 am, Spencer Uresk <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
