Forum OpenACS Q&A: OpenACS Tutorial at Tcl2008

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1: OpenACS Tutorial at Tcl2008
Posted by Matthew Burke on 09/30/08 05:44 PM
All,

I will be presenting a short (3 hour) hands-on tutorial at the Tcl2008 conference in Manassas, VA on the 21st of October. (http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2008/) I will be presenting a tutorial the previous day (the 20th) on AOLserver.

I am interested in hearing what people think are the "most-cover" topics. Here's my plan:

0. Admin of an OpenACS site (adding packages, the site map, other admin pages) and a quick tour (Forums, Doc, API-doc)

1. Overview of the OpenACS data model (parties, groups, users) and a discussion of the "object" layer.

2. Major pieces of the API including ad_page_contract, db_*, ad_form, template::list

3. Write a simple package.

I appreciate any suggestions/comments you might have.

Thanks,

Matt

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2: Re: OpenACS Tutorial at Tcl2008 (response to 1)
Posted by Matthew Burke on 09/30/08 05:45 PM
I should add that I specifically do not want to cover installing OpenACS--I only have three hours :)

Matt

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3: Re: OpenACS Tutorial at Tcl2008 (response to 2)
Posted by Stefan Sobernig on 10/01/08 06:22 PM
Matthew!

(On behalf of OCT), thanks for the initiative. this is highly appreciated!

As for ...

installing OpenACS--I only have three hours

You may want to consider referring to our Debian/Ubuntu packaging efforts:

See https://openacs.org/xowiki/debian
See https://openacs.org/xowiki/ubuntu

best
//stefan

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4: Re: OpenACS Tutorial at Tcl2008 (response to 1)
Posted by Victor Guerra on 10/01/08 06:45 PM
Maybe you can include the Developer Support in your quick tour section. As you know, its very useful when debugging, or for trying little pieces of code ( in the DS shell ).