Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Staff client prototype project kickoff

2013-12-02 Thread Bill Erickson
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Bill Erickson ber...@esilibrary.comwrote: As part of the development, I'm planning to produce a blog of sorts. I prefer asciidoc + git to an actual blog, so for now I'm keeping the log in the repository as web-staff-log.txt. I'll keep an HTML version

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Staff client prototype project kickoff

2013-12-02 Thread Liam Whalen
Hi Bill, I am very interested in getting involved in the new staff client development. However, my HTML5 knowledge is low and the last time I did serious JavaScript work it was called DHTML. So, I have started burning through a number of books, but it is going to take me at least a week to

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Staff client prototype project kickoff

2013-12-02 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi Liam, Excellent! Once you get your sea legs back, I also recommend checking out the pages under the Learn tab on http://angularjs.org/, where they have videos, tutorials, etc. Fortunately, the underlying DHTML concepts haven't really changed that much. Some things are easier and in many

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Staff client prototype project kickoff

2013-11-25 Thread Bill Erickson
Hi All, The staff client prototype project [1] is now officially under way. To recap, the purpose of the project is to solidify a technical path for building a browser-based staff client and maybe get some working code to boot. I've posted brief technical specifications here: