[socal-piggies] Meeting, this thursday, dec 6th, 7pm @ Caltech

[Daniel Arbuckle]

I've liked the notion of doing standalone application interface
programming in a way similar to the way web apps are done, including a
DOM, query language, etc. It sounds to like you're on a similar track.

On Dec 5, 2007 11:50 AM, Clint Bidlack <bidlack at activeprime.com> wrote:
> I have a question that I've been pondering lately and that may lead to
> an interesting conversation.
>
> JQuery, and other Javascript libraries, have developed compact,
> intuitive APIs for doing the following operations on trees (DOM):
>
> 1. Finding elements in the tree
> 2. Traversing from one node to others
> 3. Manipulating the nodes in the tree
> 4. Manipulating attributes of nodes
> 5. Other misc.
>
> So my question is this. Are there other areas where this type of API
> would be handy on the server side, hence written in Python.
>
> For instance, could a large application be designed with a user
> hierarchy, plugin hierarchy, db hierarchy etc, and these hierarchies
> simply treated like an AOM (application object model) with a standard
> API for finding, traversing, manipulation, etc. (Does something like
> this exist in Django, Pylons, etc? Not that I'm aware of.)
>
> One possibility is in memory object traversal. But that seems/feels too
> low level.
>
>
> The reason the question came up in the first place is that after seeing
> this in jQuery:
>
> $("p.surprise").addClass("ohmy").show("slow");
>
> which I feel to be very concise and descriptive, I couldn't recall ever
> seeing something this elegant in wxPython, Windows libs, or X. Maybe
> they do exist in other GUI libraries, but they sure don't get the attention.
>
> Anyhow, I believe this would be an interesting topic?
>
> -Clint
>
>
>
>
> Titus Brown wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just wanted to confirm that we have the same room as before,
> >
> >       http://agile.unisonis.com/socalpiggies/Caltech,_Kerckhoff_101
> >
> > from 7pm until 10pm.
> >
> > I'll bring pizza as usual; I'll ask for confirmed attendees on the day.
> >
> > So far, the agenda is to come up with some new tasks for the Google
> > Highly Open Participation contest.  Anyone else got something to talk
> > about?
> >
> > cheers,
> > --titus
> >
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