[Lift] Re: Why fields are declared as 'object' with Mapper/Record?

2009-10-06 Thread Stefan Scott
I hope I don't wander too far off-topic here as I wend my way to the question at the end of this post (would it be useful to look at something like the OWL/SWRL web ontology and rule languages for liftweb?). I tend to generalize/abstract a lot - so if anyone with a theoretical bent is willing to

[Lift] Re: CMS for Lift?

2009-08-17 Thread Stefan Scott
could be leveraged in Scala. So these might be some additional interesting CMSs to keep in mind (beyond Drupal and WordPress) when building a new CMS using liftweb. - Stefan Scott On Aug 16, 3:13 pm, glenn gl...@exmbly.com wrote: Philip, I'm working on a cms system in Lift. Right now

[Lift] Re: Full stack for building RIAs

2009-08-08 Thread Stefan Scott
://groups.google.com/group/liftweb/browse_thread/thread/5e4f5e424d33db40?hl=en# So I think lift plus a JavaScript library (and database backend) can be an optimal choice for making data-intensive RIAs right now, with an excellent roadmap for the future (Goat Rodeo, Bespin/Thunderclap). - Stefan Scott On Aug 7, 4

[Lift] Re: Full stack for building RIAs

2009-08-08 Thread Stefan Scott
I usually can figure out new acronyms ... but USP had me stumped. Even after googling, nothing applicable came up. I was unsure if it refers to a technology ... or maybe it's just shorthand for a common English phrase. Finally I thought unique sales point might be a common English phrase ...

[Lift] Re: Full stack for building RIAs

2009-08-08 Thread Stefan Scott
Hi - Sorry, should be Thunderhead not Thunderclap https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Bespin/FAQ#What_is_Thunderhead.3F - Stefan Scott On Aug 8, 11:58 am, Stefan Scott stefanscottal...@gmail.com wrote: Ivo - Bespin looks very promising - thank you for mentioning it; I had never heard of it. I

[Lift] Re: Using ExtJS with Lift?

2009-08-07 Thread Stefan Scott
using Lift's full JQuery support while being able to use Ext. However, the Ext's native base library is more performant than JQuery's. Thanks in advance. And nice to meet you. Dirk Louwers On Aug 5, 1:47 am, Stefan Scott stefanscottal...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for this info, Marius

[Lift] Re: Using ExtJS with Lift?

2009-08-05 Thread Stefan Scott
/main/webapp tree (I usually make a scripts subdir to segregate things). Let me know if that doesn't work or if I'm misunderstanding the question. Derek On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Stefan Scott stefanscottal...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks for this info, Marius. To get started

[Lift] Re: how 10 seconds works?

2009-08-04 Thread Stefan Scott
One of the main reasons I'm attracted to Scala is the type-safety. On Aug 3, 5:14 am, Timothy Perrett timo...@getintheloop.eu wrote: I think his point was that rails is doing un-type-safe operations at runtime which is *not* good! On 03/08/2009 08:15, marius d. marius.dan...@gmail.com

[Lift] Using ExtJS with Lift?

2009-08-04 Thread Stefan Scott
I understand Lift works well with various Ajax frameworks such as YUI and JQuery, and I really like the rich internet application (RIA) look-and-feel provided by the Ajax framework ExtJS http://extjs.com, which currently is dual-licensed (commercial or GPL). I was wondering if it's possible /

[Lift] Re: Using ExtJS with Lift?

2009-08-04 Thread Stefan Scott
, Stefan Scott stefanscottal...@gmail.com wrote: I understand Lift works well with various Ajax frameworks such as YUI and JQuery, and I really like the rich internet application (RIA) look-and-feel provided by the Ajax framework ExtJShttp://extjs.com, which currently is dual-licensed

[Lift] Re: Using ExtJS with Lift?

2009-08-04 Thread Stefan Scott
. Right now I'm erring on the side of spelling everything out, to make sure I'm not getting anything wrong. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! On Aug 4, 11:16 am, Stefan Scott stefanscottal...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, your instructions sound very straightforward. On Aug 4, 11:00 am

[Lift] Re: Download Lift for Ubuntu

2009-08-04 Thread Stefan Scott
Thanks for this how-to, David. So far, I've only been using lift locally on my WinXP laptop. But I'm saving this page for when I get ready to use lift on my VPS server - which runs Debian Etch (which is similar to Ubuntu as far as I understand). On Aug 4, 2:08 pm, David Pollak

[Lift] Newbie Scala syntax question re: parameterized types with bounds

2009-03-27 Thread Stefan Scott
help. - Stefan Scott --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Lift group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr

[Lift] Re: Lift and HAppS

2008-12-28 Thread Stefan Scott
, but I haven't found ways of bringing HAppS goodness into Lift. On Dec 26, 2008 7:20 PM, Stefan Scott stefanscottal...@gmail.com wrote: Is lift very similar to HAppS? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[Lift] Re: maven problem - can't make ToDo example work - or even get off the ground.

2008-12-16 Thread Stefan Scott
To avoid the breaking changes for the time being, I just downloaded the latest 'todo.tgz' today from here: http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb/t/4b305ab81019df3a and did: mvn jetty:run For the moment I'll just run Maven *offline* from now on, eg: mvn -o jetty:run so it won't grab any

[Lift] ToDo Tutorial - Layout for added column

2008-12-14 Thread Stefan Scott
the html is being generated. Thanks. I'm very exciteds about Scala and /lift/ ! - Stefan Scott Here are the 3 files I've updated: C:\www\jetty\webapps\todo\src\main\webapp\ToDo.scala lift:surround with=default at=content lift:Util.in lift:TD.list all_id=all_todos div id=all_todos

[Lift] XML problems in ToDo tutorial?

2008-12-14 Thread Stefan Scott
) and recompile/restart, it works fine. But if I create these steps myself, I keep getting these XML errors. Any suggestions? Am I missing a file somewhere? Thanks! - Stefan Scott --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[Lift] Re: ToDo Tutorial - Layout for added column

2008-12-14 Thread Stefan Scott
) - if a relative HTML novice like me from the object- oriented / functional world (the language I'm most comfortable with is Maude) could get it right on the first guess! - Stefan Scott --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[Lift] PROBLEM GONE: XML problems in ToDo tutorial?

2008-12-14 Thread Stefan Scott
) /lift/ tutorials as well, so the wires must've gotten crossed somewhere. Thanks. - Stefan Scott --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Lift group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb

[Lift] Key phrase from the To Do tutorial

2008-12-14 Thread Stefan Scott
In Lift, the snippet is the equivalent of a Rails controller: it is the instantiation of a class and invocation of a method on the class. Because you can have multiple snippets on a page, you can call out multiple logic streams on a given page and there’s no need to choose the 'primary' logic

[Lift] Working CRUD based on To Do tutorial

2008-12-14 Thread Stefan Scott
Ajaxified CRUD web-db in so few lines of code in a compiled, type-safe language. - Stefan Scott --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Lift group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb