[Lift] Re: Scala job site written in Lift + a newcomer's experience

2009-07-08 Thread Spencer Uresk
Thanks! The hosting experience is quite good - since it just results in a WAR, I was able to drop it onto my dedicated server that runs a single Tomcat instance with a bunch of Grails and plain Java web apps. It only took a few minutes to setup and deploy. I really thought it would be fun to host

[Lift] Re: Scala job site written in Lift + a newcomer's experience

2009-07-06 Thread marius d.
First of all, thank you for you kind words. Your website is just great but I'd recommend publishing the link on sc...@listes.epfl.ch as well. As far as Lift Scala goes, yes Lift in may respects requires understanding the Scala language and because Scala comes with new things/concepts a little

[Lift] Re: Scala job site written in Lift + a newcomer's experience

2009-07-06 Thread Timothy Perrett
Yeah if you have a designer which would be prepared to donate their time for free then we would very much like to speak with them! Our problem is getting creative time for free (as we are obviously a not for profit outfit). If we can get the design done (even just PSD or whatever) then we im

[Lift] Re: Scala job site written in Lift + a newcomer's experience

2009-07-06 Thread Ellis
Nice. :) On Jul 6, 6:36 am, Spencer Uresk sur...@gmail.com 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

[Lift] Re: Scala job site written in Lift + a newcomer's experience

2009-07-06 Thread Spencer Uresk
Thanks, Marius. The design was created by my designer - my design skills are unbelievably terrible. I don't think she'd do the Lift site for free (the one for the job site cost me a few hundred bucks), but if you send me details of what you want, I may be able to work something out. No promises

[Lift] Re: Scala job site written in Lift + a newcomer's experience

2009-07-06 Thread Spencer Uresk
Tyler, Thanks, will do. Choosing a good domain that isn't taken is one of the hardest parts of building a new web application for me, and seeing good domains being held onto without being used is particularly frustrating. I was disappointed to see that scalajobs.com was already taken, although

[Lift] Re: Scala job site written in Lift + a newcomer's experience

2009-07-06 Thread Spencer Uresk
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

[Lift] Re: Scala job site written in Lift + a newcomer's experience

2009-07-06 Thread Rudi Engelbrecht
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

[Lift] Re: Scala job site written in Lift + a newcomer's experience

2009-07-06 Thread Timothy Perrett
This is a great idea IMO - if you had any suggestions on forums or such to reach out to that would be great! Cheers, Tim On Jul 6, 2:34 pm, James Matlik james.mat...@gmail.com wrote: You could reach out to web design forums (they must exist), universities and the open source community at