On Friday, October 19, 2001, at 11:49 AM, Perrin Harkins wrote: >> Does anyone out there remember the project I was working on? Iaido >> (nee >> Iaijutsu)? > > I mentioned it in this thread, when talking about how hard it is to > store > user-defined data types in a SQL database. One thing that I thought was > especially cool about the design of that project was the use of TT for > non-display things like code-generation.
I think I missed the mention in the fast-lurk-skim mode I've been in... But, yeah, if you remember the persistence attempts I had in Iaido, that's exactly it. I think I have a slightly better approach now, and keep thinking about using someone's off-the-shelf/CPAN system, but most existing approaches don't quite seem to satisfy me. As for the use of TT for things other than HTML, I'm doing that like crazy now in my current work project, which literally generates and deploys web apps from compositions of components and templates selected from a builder wizard. Unfortunately, this project will probably sink when I leave here and never see the outside world unless I can work some magic and liberate it. It's been about a year of work hanging around. >> I keep thinking I might want to start over >> in Java, but I keep forgetting why I think that... > > It's more likely to attract commercial interest if it's in Java. Things > like user-defined objects are much harder in Java though. Commercial interest I'm not as worried about, though maybe I should be. Mostly it's just one of those itches I've been wanting to scratch. Though, in a previous message, the commercial interest in one way may include developer availability and acceptance, which is another thing altogether. But yeah, things like user-defined objects are hard, especially on-the-fly like I did in Iaido. That takes some perl magic, or at least some wonky obscure Java. >> Anyway, any interest? > > I'd love to see some collaboration between Iaido, OpenInteract, and the > stuff others are talking about. I have a few modules I've been > promising to > polish and release, but after that I might be able to contribute some > code. I really need to look at OpenInteract again... I remember there were some structural things that didn't satisfy me about the system (at least enough to abandon my own), but I remember it was doing good things. -- Leslie Michael Orchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 492905 (home) 11082089 (work) "...see you space cowboy..."
