Resty Blog in weblocks

Expand the simple-blog example that comes with weblocks to support a more buzzword-compliant blog interface, especially with regards to URLs.

Current todo list/plans

1. change damn name to resty-blog or resty-weblogks
2. make a nicer post widget which is the default at /
3. make the menu automagically attach to each page? (use tables for sanity?)
4. make a post-comment class (aka replies) and implement what Trastabuga's been talking about on-list.
5. make renderers for comments (must use a threaded view) and a dialog that lets a user add a comment.

History

This example started out as an official weblocks example by Evan Monroig and Benjamin Collins, but based on some questions by Trastabuga, is being expanded to be less alien-oriented. By which we mean that instead of using a single-window AJAXy model of interaction, we'll have a blog that corresponds to the standard RESTy notions of how a blog should behave with respect to URIs, navigation etc. We're shooting for the equivalent of blogspot.com (heh, someday!).

Goals

1. Demonstrate the major features of weblocks in a use-case driven, conversational manner (by discussing next steps on the NG)

2. Demonstrate how to accomplish "normal" things with weblocks, such as URLs, JS-integration, using external toolkits, sending mail etc.

Current UI / widget-tree decisions

We have two choices:

• Original plan: top level dispatcher that embeds a menu/archive subwidget and also draws the UI for the post.
• Suggested by Polzer: top level widget does not consume any tokens.. still figuring out how this works

URLs map to specific UIs as follows:

• /admin/user --> Admin interface where new posts can be created, old ones edited and deleted. (password guarded)

• /admin/user/sudo --> Admin interface where above is possible for all users and authors. (password guarded)

• /tag/foo/bar/baz --> Show posts with foo, bar, baz tags

• /author/douglas+adams/

• /author/douglas/adams/

• /author/adams/adams/

• /author/douglas_adams/ --> Show posts by author Douglas Adams

• /2010/01/02

• /2010/Dec/02

• /2010/Dic/02

• /2010/Dicembre/02

• /2010/December/02 --> All posts on 2nd of December 2010

Authors

In chronological order:

• Evan Monroig [email protected]
• Benjamin Collins [email protected]
• Nandan Bagchee [email protected]