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Re: Kona Screencast 1: It’s Baaaaack! : Rob Conery

wpatterson — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:36:13 -0000

I am very open to looking at and trying new things, that is why I am following your development of the Kona solution.

I am also willing to try something other than Source Safe. I have to say that I have no real complaints with Source Safe. It seems to work as advertised and I find it every easy to use. That doesn't mean that something else might be even better to use.

As far as DB schema changes, I know Source Safe won't help. I have heard that this can be done with the Team system, so perhaps TFS will do it. I have access to TFS, but haven't used it yet. I will try it.

If I have a system I know every little detail about, then I know the ramifications of changes and what needs to be done to re-deploy. I have to say I don't know enough about your implimentation yet to know how any customizations, like new pages I make might interact with changes you make. To me, that is a bigger question than which source control solution to use. I think I need to know this before I could ever actually deploy a system based upon your solution. Thanks!

Re: Kona Screencast 1: It’s Baaaaack! : Rob Conery

wpatterson — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:21:09 -0000

Rob - I wasn't saying that I wanted to use Source Save with your solution. Around here, you use Source Safe or you don't get the job.

The point I was trying to make is that when I am in charge devloping or mainting an application, I know what changes need to be made, so I know if the database schema needs to be changed and what modules need changing. However, with your solution, i you make some changes, I probably won't have a clue about what exactly has changed. If I have create some new pages or modified some, will have have to start all over and add my changes to your updated solution? Pherhaps it is my lack of understanding on how the whole system works and the pieces that relate to one another that is causing this confutsion on my part.

I'm looking forward to the upcoming screencasts.

Bill

Re: Kona Screencast 1: It’s Baaaaack! : Rob Conery

wpatterson — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 10:50:09 -0000

This eCommerce solution looks great and I know that more will be added to it and things will change as it develops and martures. I would really like to use this as a basis for a site for a friend, however, I was just thinking about it and wondering how I will know when I can depoply it and add my cusomizations to it and not have to start all over when a new release comes out.

With my usual web development, everything is in Visual Source Safe and I have a working directory that I can test things in. Once I make somce changes and thest them, I check them in to VSS, and then just deploy the web site.

That works because I know all of the changes that have been made. I will I know if a change has been made in the system, including the database and how do I then merge things?

Thanks again!

Re: Kona Screencast 1: It’s Baaaaack! : Rob Conery

wpatterson — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:31:29 -0000

I've learnd about results-based management and am incorporating it into a new web site because the goverment agencys that might fund the project will require it.

I just found this article, Results-Based Interaction Design (http://net.educause.edu/ir/... that talks about a new approch to web sites. It talks about education web sites, but it could be eCommerce sites. Once is selling an education, the other products.

I plan to develop an eCommerce site based upon Kona and I an interested in incorporating some of the suggestins in this article.

Thanks Rob!

Re: Kona Screencast 1: It’s Baaaaack! : Rob Conery

wpatterson — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:52:06 -0000

I've had a chance to work with the system now and it looks really great! I especially like you philosophy of making it as simple to get going as possible.

This is the perfect basis for a system a friend needs that brings community resources together to help ex-prisoners and their families as well as highlight resources she sells that complment the programs. I could use some additional content times and am happy to work on doing it.

I've done a ltt of work in SharePoint and it has "zones" like you have on pages, but then you select from a list of WebParts to add to the zones. They are sort of like the pluggins you have, in that you can add new ones (including 3rd party) without rebuilding the system. You use VS to create WebParts. Thanks again!

Re: Kona Screencast 1: It’s Baaaaack! : Rob Conery

wpatterson — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:22:19 -0000

Thanks Rob!
I had MVC Beta installed because I had successfully opened the MVC Storefront preview many months ago. I have also switched to the Team versions of VS 2008.

I uninstalled the beta version and installed MVC 1.0 and everything works great now!

Now I can look at how you have sone some things. I want to see what it would take to add more type of things to sections or zones on pages. I could use also use a product list that listed the products vertically, so I could have extensive HTML code in the center about programs, with appropriate products on the right hand side.

Do I post problems on the CodePlex site? For example, the Parent of a page doesn't seem to work.

Thanks for the temendous work you have done on this and it is only going to get better! Bill

Do I post inconsitencies or problems I find on the CodePlex site? For examp

Re: Kona Screencast 1: It’s Baaaaack! : Rob Conery

wpatterson — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:54:03 -0000

Rob,

I want to start learning from how you have created your system, so I downloaded the most recent source today and opened it with VS Team 2008 SP1. After browsing around, I tried to open the detault.aspx module in a browser. I got 6 error messages about the follwoing namespaces not being found - ValidateInput, ValidateInputAttribute, KonaPluggin.

I must be doing something wrong. Can you please steer me in the right direction. I didn't see a list of software prerequisites. Is there something utilized that I need to install?

Thank you!

BIll

Re: Kona Screencast 1: It’s Baaaaack! : Rob Conery

wpatterson — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:28:01 -0000

I really enjoyed this screencast as well as the MIX09 presentation.

This open framework is exatcly what I need to bring up a new store front for a friend. She needs to mix HTML and products in a site that presents programs and services to help people and also list some products that are used by the programs or complment them.

I am interested in using the system, but you are still changing and enhancing it. How will I know when it is comlete enough to actually start using it? Also, where is the source code? Thanks so much! I have learned a lot and you have inspired me to use some of these techniques. Bill