Outer Web Thought Log
April 28, 2003
Heating up for XML Europe
In finishing my little overview presentation on Cocoon for XML Europe, I realized that already, there's way too much stuff inside Cocoon to condense into a 45' presentation. I tried to stick to a maximum of 30 slides, which already is a lot for 45', and could barely glance over the most important and popular components and frameworks inside Cocoon. As much as I'm strong believer in manufactured serendipity, it was still a nice surprise to see "Tony":http://manero.org/weblog/ adding a nice "Getting Started with Flow":http://wiki.cocoondev.org/Wiki.jsp?page=GettingStartedWithFlow to the Wiki. Lots of shared neurons in the air. I like that. There was me cleaning up and sysadmining the Wiki, while Tony adding and editing this great concise sample, immediately followed by Chris Oliver -- Cocoon's current Flow Master -- check-reading, commenting and correcting, and "Bertrand":http://codeconsult.ch/blogs/bertrand/ cleaning up: a thoroughly peer-reviewed document in "only 10 hours":http://wiki.cocoondev.org/PageInfo.jsp?page=GettingStartedWithFlow of internet time.
Posted by stevenn at April 28, 2003 01:28 AM ()
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Just took a look at the “GettingStartedWithFlow”. As I never have seen a Wiki site before, I was really surprised to see the “edit this page” link at the bottom. My first thought was that it was a security leak in the site: I was not logged on but their was this button! Obviously, I had to try if it was really working ;-) So I edited the page, added a dot at the end of the title and clicked on “save”. I was really surprised to see no error ;-) Then I started digging into the site: reading the “getting started section” ;-)...
Bottom line: I’m really surprised and glad to see that such a thing, as Wiki is possible! “Hip hip Rahoe” for the open source community!

Posted by: Open Source Community Newbe at April 28, 2003 09:20 AM

Open indeed....

:D

And I'm not even done with the HowTo.

Samples are nice, but there's a lot behind a sample that can get distilled down into a concise doc like the one I was working on.

I decided that I needed to learn the flow, and get an actual working application done, no matter how simple. Hopefully I lowered the barrier to entry for the flow for at least one other person.

Posted by: Tony at April 28, 2003 07:53 PM