[erlang-questions] Drupal cloan anybody?

[Joe Armstrong]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Yvan Godin <yvan.godin@REDACTED> wrote:
> For a such job, may be, you should consider  Nitrogen  from Rusty
> Klophaus   (http://nitrogenproject.com/)

Thanks - I just took a quick look - I'm impressed by how much progress
has been made since I
first saw this - this is looking really good.

@rusty - this is looking really nice - the interaction between JS and
erlang is neat

It would be great to start with this an package it a la bitnami

/Joe


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> 2009/2/26 Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED>
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>> The other day my son wanted to build a web site ....
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>> He's no programmer - but he can point a mouse and click.
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>> He showed me the kind of stuff he wanted. His university has a web
>> site and he can administer bits
>> of it by pointing and clicking ...
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>> To cut a long story short ..... drupal
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>> The idea is nice - Jim User knows nothing about web sites, but can
>> fill in a menu and click a button
>> and you get a website.
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>> I thought I'd play with drupal ... bought a book .... read it ...
>> (well skimmed through it)
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>> Play time - http://bitnami.org/ - fantastic ( a single click downloads
>> Apache+PHP+MySQL+Drupal)
>> Execute one shell script and fill in one form and we're up and running.
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>> If you don't know what bitnami is stop reading this message and go take a
>> look
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>> (bitnami is apt-get install XYZ on steroids - it gets all the bits you
>> need *and configures everything*
>> in a couple of mouse clicks)
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>> WHY DONT WE PACKAGE YAWS+MNESIA+COUTCHDB etc in a similar manner to the
>> bitnami
>> packages? - make it *really* easy to get started.
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>> (I see a lot of mail from people who have tried to gets started with
>> yaws/mochi/couchDB etc and fail
>>  or who have to search for info and fail, or who write tutorials on
>> how to install stuff 'cos it difficult -
>> this is *just like me* - I have big problems installing stuff (like
>> mysql) that I don't know well - it takes
>> a long time to make stuff work if you do not understand it)
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>> What is drupal?
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>>     templates + forms + database + plugin architecture + way of
>> working + report generator
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>> Well we can do most of these things - I've just made a javascript
>> thingy to make forms - we could use
>> mnesia/couchDB/dets/filesystem as a database - we need some kind of
>> templating (I've done this as well)
>> need a web server (mochi/yaws/...)
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>> We could cloan the drupal architecture - in essence the appendices to
>> the book I bought contain the database schemas that power Drupal so
>> most of the hard work is done - in a sence a data base schema
>> is a form (almost).
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>> I think it might be fun to try and make a bitnami type distibution
>> that packages a LYME stack
>> (Linux Yaws Mnesia Erlang) - (or Mac Mochi CouchDn Erlang) then build
>> a menu/table viewer layer on top - then build some apps on top of
>> that.
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>> If the basic infrastructure was Webserver+database+erlang+menus+table
>> viewer then building
>> an application on top of this might be a simple job.
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>> (The bit I'm missing is a table viewer in a browser, something like
>> the module tv that runs with
>> AJAX calls in a browser - and that has a few nice js effects)
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>> Another problem that needs to be addressed is multi-platform packaging
>> - how can we package
>> this for linux, windows, os-x and "the cloud".
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>> This might make a nice community project - we need some specialist
>> knowledge here in the following areas:
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>>            - web servers (think yaws, mochiweb)
>>            - ccs + html templates (think pretty designs)
>>            - data bases (think mnesia, couchdb) (or even backends to
>> mysql)
>>            - javascript (think, fancy forms, AJAX, jquery, pretty
>> effects, JSON)
>>            - packaging (like bitnami)
>>            - Instant messaging (xmpp, ejabberd) etc.
>>
>> Then we need people who want to build domain specific apps
>>
>>          - bulletin boards
>>          - blog engines
>>          - mashups
>>          - cms
>>          - bug trackers
>>
>> The latter group should be presented with a uniform API towards the
>> platform
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>> To the question is anybody interested? - I expect the answer to be yes
>> - but how can we organize this?
>> Can we have volunteers? - who does what on which machine?
>>
>> All comments are welcome
>>
>> /Joe Armstrong
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