Re: [web2py] Re: book revision

2010-08-01 Thread Jonathan Lundell
On Jul 26, 2010, at 9:09 AM, VP wrote: I think the book needs some work. I'm learning web2py. I like it. But I feel there are some mysteries that have not been explained in the book. I hope you put a team on the book. Chapter 3 needs to be thoughtfully expanded. The problem with magic

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-27 Thread Timmie
Hello, what date do you target as publishing date? Best regards, Timmie

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-27 Thread Timmie
Hello, have you tried Pandoc: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/try If you consider your markup langauge stable, why not submitting it to the developer of Pandoc? Regards, Timmie

Re: [web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-27 Thread Thadeus Burgess
And SQLFORM(onvalidate) -- Thadeus On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Thadeus Burgess thade...@thadeusb.com wrote: IS_IN_SET zero changes and how they work and why it is that way now. -- Thadeus On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Iceberg iceb...@21cn.com wrote: On Jul 24, 5:53am,

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-27 Thread mdipierro
End of August final. On Jul 27, 3:18 am, Timmie timmichel...@gmx-topmail.de wrote: Hello, what date do you target as publishing date? Best regards, Timmie

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-26 Thread mdipierro
That is already there at the beginning of chapter 6. On Jul 26, 3:05 am, Ramjee Ganti gant...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, For people new to web2py like me a section which mentions all the third party libraries that are used in web2py. eg. pyodbc for MSSQL, Mysql conncetor for MYSQL etc. would be

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-26 Thread mdipierro
P.S. I added this to my provate latex source (after incorporating the corrections editors posted online). I still need to convert everything in markmin syntax to post it online... this will take another month but will make some chapters available for review asap. On Jul 26, 4:43 am, mdipierro

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-26 Thread Nico de Groot
Info about vitualfields, some links I use: http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/fa7936be97a82fec Thadeus' blog about vitual links including lazy fields using a 'inline' function , not working anymore in latest releases

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-26 Thread mdipierro
I think the problem is fixed in trunk. can you try? On Jul 26, 4:51 am, Nico de Groot ndegr...@chello.nl wrote: Info about vitualfields, some links I use: http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/fa7936be97... Thadeus' blog about vitual links including lazy fields using a

Re: [web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-26 Thread Johann Spies
On 25 July 2010 00:54, Garrafa Pet 2 Litros garraf...@gmail.com wrote: I think it's good to review the section 3.9 that discusses the wiki and add documentation of new features found in the plugin wiki. +1 Regards Johann --     Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a      man

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-26 Thread mdipierro
The fact is the purpose of 3.9 is not to build a wiki but teach web2py programming. If we use plugin_wiki there users would not learn much. Moreover plugin_wiki may change after the book is completed therefore I want to use it as an example of plugin but not suggest its API will be supported in

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-26 Thread VP
I think the book needs some work. I'm learning web2py. I like it. But I feel there are some mysteries that have not been explained in the book. I hope you put a team on the book. Chapter 3 needs to be thoughtfully expanded. I saw some usage inconsistencies in examples in Chapter 3, regarding

Re: [web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-26 Thread Thadeus Burgess
IS_IN_SET zero changes and how they work and why it is that way now. -- Thadeus On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Iceberg iceb...@21cn.com wrote: On Jul 24, 5:53am, mdipierro mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu wrote: I am revising the book. Please list what features are not mentioned in the book or

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-25 Thread weheh
There are also comments embedded directly into the online book. These should be reviewed and incorporated into the new doc as deemed fit.

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-25 Thread howesc
I use google app engine a lot, and would love to have mention in the main content of the book when features won't work on GAE. some are now, and others are only in the GAE section at the end. also not everything in

Re: [web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-25 Thread Thadeus Burgess
Update the deployment section. I never got the instructions in the book to work without tweaking, so I think it needs some fine tuning and references to web2pyslices slice 14, 29, 33, 36, 57, 64 -- Thadeus On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 5:27 PM, howesc how...@umich.edu wrote: I use google app

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread Adi
- compute, virtualfields, represent and all such things that are are db.table.field level - a chapter on reusable logic (where to place it - module, model, controller, site-packages in which scenario) - templates, blocks, {{include}} in views - custom forms, including sign up forms (lots of

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread mdipierro
{{blocks}} were put in the web2py as an experiment and we took them out because of a problem. We need to put them back in. Massimo On Jul 24, 3:44 am, Adi aditya.sa...@gmail.com wrote: - compute, virtualfields, represent and all such things that are are db.table.field level - a chapter on

Re: [web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread Johann Spies
Enough information for total javascript beginners to understand and use jqgrid and friends please. Johann -- Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true,  whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are  just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread weheh
+1 all above suggestions. I would also suggest some more doc on the ajax interface to radio buttons, check boxes, and select lists. On Jul 23, 5:53 pm, mdipierro mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu wrote: I am revising the book. Please list what features are not mentioned in the book or deserve more

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread weheh
Doc index needs expansion. When I was a little more of a newbie, I know I looked in the index for keywords that I was sure should be there, only to find them missing. At the moment, I don't recall what they were, sorry. At the least, every web2py function and attribute should be listed in the

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread mdipierro
Working on this as we speak. On Jul 24, 3:37 pm, weheh richard_gor...@verizon.net wrote: Doc index needs expansion. When I was a little more of a newbie, I know I looked in the index for keywords that I was sure should be there, only to find them missing. At the moment, I don't recall what

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread Garrafa Pet 2 Litros
I think it's good to review the section 3.9 that discusses the wiki and add documentation of new features found in the plugin wiki.

Re: [web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread Jonathan Lundell
More on the DAL objects would be nice, especially on the details of their methods. Which operations they support, how they're combined, etc. There's something there already, but it could use fleshing out.

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread mdipierro
I have identified the following items that are missing from the book. Listed here in some random order. compute fields virtual fields crud.search RPXAccount new validators populate plugins LOAD and generic.load Field attributes (compute, virtualfield, uploadseparate) format, represent recursive

Re: [web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread Bruno Rocha
I would like more detailed information about testing, unittest, docTest. explaining how it works in detail, and showing a good example of a test using the 'test' in appadmin 2010/7/24 mdipierro mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu: I have identified the following items that are missing from the book. Listed

Re: [web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread Jonathan Lundell
http://code.google.com/p/web2py-book/wiki/BookGeneralIssues

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread mdipierro
Thanks. this is very helpful On Jul 24, 7:57 pm, Jonathan Lundell jlund...@pobox.com wrote: http://code.google.com/p/web2py-book/wiki/BookGeneralIssues

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread Scott
Cube2py explanation along with examples for all of the widgets and how to implement. Since we're headed in that direction... :) On Jul 24, 9:08 pm, mdipierro mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu wrote: Thanks. this is very helpful On Jul 24, 7:57 pm, Jonathan Lundell jlund...@pobox.com wrote:

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-24 Thread Jeff S
For new users like me, downloadable packed applications would be great with each examples in the book. A few times, the examples were not showing correctly online and the cutpaste on IE browser is not providing the line feed and carriage return showing online. Although, the packed applications

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-23 Thread mr.freeze
Definitely these: http://web2pyslices.com/main/slices/take_slice/16 On Jul 23, 4:53 pm, mdipierro mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu wrote: I am revising the book. Please list what features are not mentioned in the book or deserve more space they correctly get. You suggestions will be appreciated.

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-23 Thread mr.freeze
crud.search RPXAccount populate plugins and PluginManager any new validators LOAD On Jul 23, 5:16 pm, mr.freeze nat...@freezable.com wrote: Definitely these:http://web2pyslices.com/main/slices/take_slice/16 On Jul 23, 4:53 pm, mdipierro mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu wrote: I am revising the