At 13:20 -0800 2/9/09, Chris Anderson wrote: > There's a lot of cool things you can do when you treat > documents as state machines. ...
This is a nifty topic, well worth inclusion in the book, IMHO. I have built processing networks out of scripts and YAML files, using generated make files to keep the outputs in sync with the inputs. In a CouchDB-based system, daemons (ie, bots) could be set up to move the state of the files forward. Whether a file gets modified (or simply used as input) depends on the design. -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume [email protected] http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7841 Technical editing and writing, programming, and web development
