heADs up (was: RE: The filePro Group - A second attempt)

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At Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:11:26PM -0400 or thereabouts, 
suspect Bruce Easton was observed uttering:
> Mark Luljak wrote Wednesday, July 25, 2007 5:45 PM:
> 
> > but you still have to design and code.
> > Well, you do if you do it directly it does.
> 
> a lot for truely robust dynamic apps - and if your project is not
> very similar to something you've done before, then that a lot of
> custom work.

Keeping library code helps.  *pats backup of recent code*  :)

How many here are interested in a follow-on article on fP/OneGate/AJAX
that -does- give you the source code and a breakdown of how it all fits
together.  The last article on this gave the flow and overview but didn't
illustrate code examples (intentionally).  

I have a release to show the actual code I used in the demos in the video
that was linked from that article.  I've been toying with the idea of doing
a more explicit article that really analyses how it's done, step by step.
Especially since I've had to do it twice over the phone now anyway. :) :)
It's just a matter of knowing if there's enough interest to justify
documenting it more thoroughly.

Bear in mind that Bruce's solution, while it takes the pain out of
this with a -lot- of high-level RAD functionality--I believe Bruce
indicated to me that there is customisation allowed for even on the AJAX
segments, so looking at both high-level and low-level are -not- mutually
exclusive, here.  (Correct me if I'm wrong about what you were telling me,
Bruce...although the "AJAX custom functions" line in your breakdown seems
to support what I remember talking about with you.)

So one can do a lot with a high-level solution in RAD terms, and customise
it in key areas with low-level custom code.  I'd call that complimentary.
Although one might never -need- to go low-level in that scenario, the
potential exists, if I'm understanding you correctly.

> surprise, they did nicely.  And they did nicely enough that I
> realized I could take things to another level and develop, using
> only OG and filePro, a complete runtime and development environment
> specifically for filepro files.   

Which I saw portions of about five months back, give or take, and it was
enough to impress me.  That doesn't happen easily, as some of you know.  :)
And I haven't seen the updated and new stuff yet...hopefully soon!

> ampersandnonbreakingspaceampersandnonbreakingspaceampersandnonbreakingspacea
> mpersandnonbreakingspaceampersandnonbreakingspaceampersandnonbreakingspace:)

*giggle*  My laugh for the day, I presume?  Thanks, thought I'd lost that!

*laughs harder*  I just went to post and saw your subject line.  That's a
cute way of doing it.  :)

mark->
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