Re: [Lift] Lift or Scala first?

2010-03-05 Thread Wilson MacGyver
I highly recommend first you read chapter 1-5 of "Beginning Scala" by David Pollak. then you are ready to start working through lift's tutorial, samples, etc. On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Mini Naim wrote: > Hi guys: > I have a simple question, it's necessary to learn Scala first? or i > can

Re: [Lift] Re: Lift - GAE Version

2010-01-14 Thread Wilson MacGyver
I just wanted to point out that clojure would be a nonstarter anyway on GAE. Without threading, you can't use STM as well as some of the killer features of clojure. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:45 PM, __kaveh__ wrote: > Clojure is an elegant language "but" it is a Lisp and it is dynamic - > and that

Re: [Lift] Hosting problem, could PHP hosting front end the Liftweb? or is there cheap Liftweb hosting?

2009-11-16 Thread Wilson MacGyver
I would highly recommend you check to see if it's possible to find java/tomcat hosting. If you have decent amount of customers. You may also want to consider setting up a EC2/S3 instance and run your own server that way. using php front end to proxy like this, I don't think comet feature will wor

[Lift] Re: Lift under 2.8 timeframe ?

2009-11-12 Thread Wilson MacGyver
You feel this confident about Scala 2.8 release by Jan? I'm curious because Scala 2.8 schedule seem to be a fairly moving target. On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:13 PM, David Pollak wrote: > > We are *very* serious and *VERY* (lots of emphasis) committed to Scala 2.8. > I'm expecting that Lift 1.1 sh

[Lift] Re: Lift for a backend REST Server

2009-11-09 Thread Wilson MacGyver
there are several advantages. 1: you get to leverage type safety and the excellent XML support of Scala, and lift-json. 2: assuming it's not a "open for all" public REST server, you'd have to deal with security/auth. Lift will help here. 3: In the past, every time I've done a backend REST serve

[Lift] Re: What's the deal with class(es) in API named with one character?

2009-11-02 Thread Wilson MacGyver
ah, I was always curious what S stood for. On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:33 PM, David Pollak wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Vesa wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I feel that having classes with names like S wastes my very limited >> brain ram while reading or writing lift applications. Why not

[Lift] Re: run jetty

2009-10-15 Thread Wilson MacGyver
! > > > john > > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Wilson MacGyver > wrote: >> >> simple answer, do it as one line like this >> >> mvn archetype:generate -U -DarchetypeGroupId=net.liftweb >> -DarchetypeArtifactId=lift-archetype-basic -DarchetypeV

[Lift] Re: run jetty

2009-10-15 Thread Wilson MacGyver
emoteRepositories=", b) it gave me errors > when I issued "mvn jetty:run" later. > > 3) I copied exactly your commands into mvn_todo.bat, and tried to click the > file.nothing happened! > > thank you so much for your patience and your wonderful help! > > >

[Lift] Re: run jetty

2009-10-15 Thread Wilson MacGyver
al? On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:52 PM, j...@bancova.com wrote: > yes, that is what I'm trying to do.  Thank you for your quick response! > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Wilson MacGyver > wrote: >> >> Some quick questions: >> >> Are you trying to follow t

[Lift] Re: How much Scala knowledge is needed to start coding a simple blog with Lift?

2009-10-15 Thread Wilson MacGyver
Generally for people new to scala but with primary intention to explore lift, I suggest the following Get David Pollak's "Beginning Scala" book, read ch 1-5. (I still think it's a good idea to read ch 6 to know how actors work, but for using lift, you can put it in the back burner.) Then start o

[Lift] Re: run jetty

2009-10-15 Thread Wilson MacGyver
Some quick questions: Are you trying to follow the todo example in http://liftweb.net/docs/getting_started/mod_master.html ? Are you using an external database like mysql or are you using the built-in one? On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:03 PM, john wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm really excited with my

[Lift] Re: Use Rails as front and Scala as end ?

2009-10-14 Thread Wilson MacGyver
The simplest way is to use scala to write web services and use rails to make REST request to scala. I mean, you can go all out and write the web service using scala lift, and use rails to write the front end per se. Having said that, unless you have legacy applications or some very specific reaso

[Lift] Re: Lift 1.1 must use Scala 2.8.x ?

2009-10-14 Thread Wilson MacGyver
no, if you are using the current milestone or snapshot, you'll see it's still using scala 2.7.x series. I don't think lift will switch to 2.8 anytime soon. too many changes and too many unknowns. I'm not even sure if scalatest compiles at this point with 2.8 snapshot. Or in short, let mvn take c

[Lift] Re: Pain Building Lift

2009-09-19 Thread Wilson MacGyver
I'm running Snow Leopard, Maven 2.2.1. And I use git pull to keep track of the latest source. I use export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx1024m" and then mvn clean install I've been doing that for the past 3 month or so now. It's only broke twice for me. Both times had to do with new code, and both were reso

[Lift] Re: Proper way to upgrade Lift and Scala libs?

2009-09-16 Thread Wilson MacGyver
Got it, thanks for the info. Staying with 2.7.5 then. Just finished moving to 2.7.6 for non-lift stuff yesterday, reverting... :) On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:52 AM, David Pollak wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Wilson MacGyver > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 15,

[Lift] Re: Proper way to upgrade Lift and Scala libs?

2009-09-15 Thread Wilson MacGyver
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:44 PM, David Pollak wrote: > Lift (1.1-X and 1.0.1/1.0.2) is compiled against Scala 2.7.5  This is the > version you should be using. > Do not upgrade to 2.7.6  2.7.6 is a broken release. can you expand on that? Do you mean 2.7.6 is a broken release for using it with l

[Lift] Re: Comet Chat

2009-08-24 Thread Wilson MacGyver
Hi Bjarte, I am the one who wrote that post. It came out of a 1 hour presentation that I did for my local java user group to show what lift can do. So it was very minimal. Since most people attending are new to both Scala and Lift. I second David's suggestion. For a more full featured version ch

[Lift] Re: ToDo example

2009-07-25 Thread Wilson MacGyver
btw, when I said stupid questions, I was talking about the questions I was about to ask, not yours. :) I wrote it real fast and realized it could be taken the wrong way. :) On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Kev wrote: > > I was working through the ToDo example on the web > http://liftweb.net/docs

[Lift] Re: ToDo example

2009-07-25 Thread Wilson MacGyver
stupid question. src/main/scala/com/liftworkshop/model/ToDo.scala exist and it in fact does have class ToDo and object ToDo, with case matching? and the mvn command you did use -DarchetypeArtifactId=lift-archetype-basic ? On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Kev wrote: > > I was working through th

[Lift] Re: building lift

2009-07-19 Thread Wilson MacGyver
/2 >> > >> >> Or manually downloading JTA and putting it in your jre/lib directory. >> >> -Ross >> >> On Jul 18, 2009, at 9:49 PM, Wilson MacGyver wrote: >> >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > I git clone the lift source from

[Lift] building lift

2009-07-18 Thread Wilson MacGyver
Hi, I git clone the lift source from git hub. then run mvn install to build it. It fails with Downloading: http://scala-tools.org/repo-releases/javax/transaction/jta/1.0.1B/jta-1.0.1B.jar [INFO] Unable to find resource 'javax.transaction:jta:jar:1.0.1B' in repository scala-tools.org (http://sc

[Lift] Re: lift presentation

2009-07-14 Thread Wilson MacGyver
Just want to report back, I gave the lift presentation to my local java user group. It went well. The comet-chat demo was a crowd pleaser. I want to especially thank Marius and David for letting me use their material. Fun times. Thanks, Mac --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

[Lift] Re: Becoming a Scala/Lift Guru

2009-07-06 Thread Wilson MacGyver
Wouldn't Ch6 on actors be useful too? But yea, Ch7 would be too much. On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:59 PM, David Pollak wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Wilson MacGyver > wrote: >> >> I would like to suggest David's "Beginning Scala" book. It

[Lift] Re: Becoming a Scala/Lift Guru

2009-07-06 Thread Wilson MacGyver
; is but doesn't know how to pave and how some paver patterns with help > with that, he can just put random pavers on the ground because is > gonna be a mess, same thing with coding I think..hehe > Thanks. > > On Jul 6, 12:00 pm, Wilson MacGyver wrote: >> I would echo David

[Lift] Re: Becoming a Scala/Lift Guru

2009-07-06 Thread Wilson MacGyver
I would echo David's comment. Scala is a powerful language with high complexity budget. I think it's important to learn the fundamentals of Scala first and build on top of it. On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:52 AM, David Pollak wrote: > Eric, > > It seems that you want to hike the Appalachain Trail at

[Lift] Re: lift presentation

2009-06-29 Thread Wilson MacGyver
gt; Basically, the preso is building the chat app in 40 lines of code in front > of people, then discussing the Scala language features that make it > possible. > > >> >> >> Jeremy >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Wilson MacGyver wrote: >&

[Lift] Re: lift presentation

2009-06-25 Thread Wilson MacGyver
heheh, no problem. I did the one on Scala back in Feb. :) On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Francois Armand wrote: > >> >> I did a presentation some weeks ago, the slides are under a creative common >> licence, so use them if you want ! >> >> http://fanf42.blogspot.com/2009/06/tour-of-scala-ossgtp

[Lift] Re: lift presentation

2009-06-25 Thread Wilson MacGyver
Thank you very much! On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 2:16 AM, marius d. wrote: > > I'm giving today a presentation for Transylvania JUG ... I'll email > you my material. > > Br's, > Marius > > On Jun 25, 8:04 am, Wilson MacGyver wrote: > > Hi, > > &g

[Lift] lift presentation

2009-06-24 Thread Wilson MacGyver
Hi, I'm doing a presentation on lift to my local java user group next month. I'm wondering if any of you have slides on lift that I can borrow/leverage? :) Thanks, Mac -- Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message