Hello everybody, I have a hard time to get up-and-running with weblocks. I have checked the tutorials at http://trac.common-lisp.net/cl-weblocks/wiki/Tutorials but could find anything comprehensible there:
- http://trac.common-lisp.net/cl-weblocks/wiki/UserManual Gives a quite good explanation of individual weblocks' components, but there's no description how they fit together. The given examples seem to be somewhat outdated and not all of them can be reproduced. The first widget example (weblocks:render-widget-body "Hello World!") fails with type error in WIDGET-DIRTY-P - http://nunb2.blogspot.com/ Concentrates on installing emacs/slime/weblocks/other-libraries, a problem that is mostly solved now that quicklisp is available. But no hints about how to actually write weblocks applications. Of no help at all. - http://obakechan.net/lisp/cl-blogapp/ Shows code evolving in 4 steps, but there's no explanation how the pieces fit together. - http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/continuations-web.html - http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/ui-dsl.html Show how weblocks internals are implemented, which is quite interesting. In fact, those two pages made me curious to try out weblocks. But there is still no explanation how a weblocks application is structured. BTW: The demo at http://72.249.76.121/ seems to be down... - http://uint32t.blogspot.com/2008/04/weblocks-presentations.html Explains a specific aspect of weblocks (presentations). But maybe I should grasp the basics first? - http://teddyb.org/rlp/tiki-index.php?page=Learning+About+Weblocks A collection of random hints and tips. Quite useful once you are up and running, but not a real help to get an idea how all fits together. - http://redlinernotes.com/blog/?p=1232 - http://redlinernotes.com/blog/?p=1243 - http://redline6561.livejournal.com/404928.html So far the best tutorial I could find until now. But... While the first two parts of this tutorial start out very promising, there's a disruption somewhere near the end of part 2. There's no hint how the SCHEDULE methods are to be called. Part 3 continues in the same manner, giving no hint how GET-EMAILS and GET-TIMESTAMPS fit into the whole picture. This tutorial even fails to create a working application at all. The corresponding repository on github doesn't at all follow the steps described in the tutorial. So I am sitting here with a gut feeling that weblocks is a great framework, but completely fail to get up and running with this beast. So finally, here's my question: anybody knows of a good tutorial for weblocks? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weblocks" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/weblocks?hl=en.
