Re: the idiot's guide to pier

2008/8/20 stéphane ducasse <ducasse(a)iam.unibe.ch>ch>: I find the difficulty of Pier is its... simplicity, uniformity... A bit like Smalltalk. All is a structure (wich is meta-described etc...). It's hard to have a user guide as Pier is more powerful than a classic CMS or wiki. We could have some but it will inevitably restricts the usage possibilities of Pier. This said, I think we could agree on some directions to bring help under the form of tutorials etc..: How-To use Pier (user) 1-wiki syntax How-To use Pier (admin) 2-admin/user right management 3-admin content mamangment (rules) 4-edit versus settings (I think this is important) 5-How to integrate seaside component (easy for a counter, more complicated when an apps that require its own session...) 6-How-to change the layout, eventually use template here but his is not "out the box". I think Keith did some work in this area but I didn't really used it How-To Develop components for Pier 7-How to interact with Structure, persistency, logs 8-How to create structure (different of a seaside component...) ... This is just what I'll find useful as documentation... but no time to help there right now. Also, I think we need to have an admin page per defaut (that will ease people management of the Pier site...) - System managements (user group system update google analytics). Maybe I can find some time in the next days to do such a page. I can evetually add a default blog page (with its own environment to display blog related component). What do you think Lukas ? This is kind of restricting, but that could be a better default setup for newcomers ? Maybe there's a need for a "Pier distribution" called... moor ;) Cheers, Cédrick