Hi Spencer Well done on a nice web site with a great look and feel.
I am also interested to hear how you went about implementing it in Lift/Scala - please let us know when you have code / how-to / guide etc. to share. Kind regards Rudi On 06 Jul 2009, at 4:26 PM, Spencer Uresk <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mark, > > Yes, I absolutely plan on writing some short tutorials once I feel a > little more comfortable with my knowledge in the area. I could also > release the code once I get it cleaned up a bit, if people think that > it would be useful or interesting having it as another Lift sample. > > - Spencer > > On Jul 6, 7:20 am, Mark Essel <[email protected]> wrote: >> If there was a way I could get an upload of your recent scala/lift >> knowledge I'd be much appreciated. Any chance you'll create some >> tutorials on the making of Spencer? I signed up on the site. >> I'm working on a project that matches social media status, user >> profile history, and eventually their influential social graph >> members >> to contextual nonintrusive ads. >> I've had to create the shell in php just to get a prototype working >> but I prefer building it in scala w/ lift (had some netbeans ant >> build >> issues with plain scala libs). >> >> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
