[Lift] Re: Documentation Site

2009-12-21 Thread johncch
Well, this is an apt discussion at this point in time I feel. One of the weakness of the Lift Project is really the sparse documentation, as well as the rapid cycle of development obsoleting virtually many of the slightly older code out there. I don't mind contributing my time improving the docume

[Lift] Re: Understanding SessionVars and Objects

2009-12-09 Thread johncch
Thanks for the explanation! > SessionVars are kind of like thread local variables. They have an internal > "name" (which is guaranteed to be unique and is maintained by Lift) which is > used to check in a dictionary the session keeps around with the values of > each SessionVar for the current s

[Lift] Understanding SessionVars and Objects

2009-12-09 Thread johncch
Hi, I'm trying to understand the implementation of MetaMegaProtoUser, reading the code, there are a couple of conceptual questions that I'd like to ask. I understand object as a singleton class, or perhaps vaguely similar to a static class (as in Java) so I'm wondering why is, in the MetaMegaProt

[Lift] Re: Missing source files in 1.1-SNAPSHOT

2009-11-21 Thread johncch
FWIW, I'm seeing the same thing. Unfortunately. I'm downloading the source on another folder and cross referencing as I need. Thanks. regards, CH On Nov 19, 5:29 am, glenn wrote: > You can either use debugging facilities in Eclipse or, as I mostly > do, > sprinkle a lot of println or Log.info s

[Lift] Re: regarding maven archetype:generate

2009-11-15 Thread johncch
T > > Cheers, Indrajit > > On 15/11/09 10:50 PM, johncch wrote: > > > > > > > Dear all, > > > I'm trying to create a 1.1-SNAPSHOT project but I keep failing. I'm > > not sure what's happening so I'd really appreciate it if some

[Lift] regarding maven archetype:generate

2009-11-15 Thread johncch
Dear all, I'm trying to create a 1.1-SNAPSHOT project but I keep failing. I'm not sure what's happening so I'd really appreciate it if someone can point out my fault. This is the exact command I type: mvn archetype:generate -U -DarchetypeGroupId=net.liftweb - DarchetypeArtifactId=lift-archetype

[Lift] Re: A Critique On Lift

2009-10-22 Thread johncch
I know this is not the programming languages weblog but I'll still like to chip in a bit.. I love Scala. I know it's confusing, sometimes (more often than not) it makes my head hurts. But the language itself is so expressive. I think it's kinda, well, maybe I'm machoistic, but there's often insta

[Lift] Re: Scala and Eclipse

2009-10-18 Thread johncch
> We have a large multi-module project that includes scala in a few key > artifacts and things are going somewhat smoothly.  However, I think most of > the devs are bailing out of eclipse for intellij. I just downloaded IntelliJ IDEA CE with the scala plugin and it's really very nice. I think the

[Lift] Scala and Eclipse

2009-10-17 Thread johncch
I'm trying to get Lift to show up in Eclipse 3.5 (sorry for the yet another eclipse + lift thread) and it's giving me alot of problems. I'd just like to know if anyone else have been seeing the same problems? I looked through the group but I didn't see similar things. Basically I'm setting up lik