[Ur] A direction for Ur/Web

[Karn Kallio]

> Gentlemen,
> 
> On 3/26/11 6:51 PM, Marc Weber wrote:
> > The low entry point can only be achieved by
> > - teaching its theory (eg give hints about which books to read)
> > - write many tutorials.
> 
> To this end, I finally got around to starting something I've been
> intending to do for some time, which is restructuring my
> (long-since-abandoned) 'UrBlog' application into a tutorial-style
> project.  I figure that while the example applications on the Ur/Web
> site are helpful, they perhaps do not give a novice user the full
> picture of how to develop idiomatic Ur/Web code to achieve a complete
> application.  I'm hoping to go some way towards this goal.
> 

Good idea!  Much more constructive than my vague notions of possible "future 
directions".

> http://www.expdev.net/urtutorial/
> 
> There is almost nothing there (yet), but it is still being actively
> developed.  My intention is to basically demonstrate how to develop the
> basics of the application, and then how Ur/Web encourages code re-use
> (by employing the CRUD example to create an editor interface).
> 
> Finally, I was hoping to demonstrate how to "theme" an application with
> minimal modification to the code.
> 
> The source for this tutorial is in Git:
> 
> https://github.com/gian/urtutorial
> 
> I would be very interested in talking to anyone who might be willing to
> contribute towards this (or some complementary) effort.
> 

I would be interested in contributing :)
 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gian