I’ve had a major case of developers block on this project. The reason for this is that I have been struggling with the best way of handling the front end template management.
After spending some time going around in circles I decided the best way to get past these blocks was to try out a few other CMS systems to see how they handled such issues. This has turned out to be a really useful exercise and has really opened up my eyes to alternatives for a number of areas.
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So we’ve talked about Membrane’s CRUDController, and as stated most of the time developers won’t need to do anything more than inherit from the CRUDController when writing new plugins. There will be occasions where developers need to overwrite the functionality of the CRUDService though.
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I’ve banged on about Membrane having a CRUD Controller and Service quite a few times now. I suppose it’s time to explain this a little more. Especially as we now have some basic Membrane functionality running directly off them. (I’ll talk about the CRUDService in a later post, as most plugin controllers will not have to deal with it).
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It’s been a while since I last blogged about Membrane and it really is time to give a progress report and where possible try and encourage more developers to get involved.
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I may repeat myself a bit here from the previous post regarding content editing, but I think it’s worth putting everything together in one post. This post has been written following more discussions with the team at the yorkshire based marketing agency I work at.
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The worst part about having a separate View Model and Domain Model is that creating the mapping, and tests for the mappings, between the two is boring and time consuming. I was discussing this with James Gregory and he pointed me in the direction of the AutoMapper project.
I’ve already started implementing this into the Membrane project and wow it’s been really easy and useful. It means now I can concentrate on the important stuff and not waste time on mapping. Sure there may be times where I need to do a little work on the mapping, but a large percentage of the time I shouldn’t need to lift a finger.
Just came across a post about JavaScript compression for MonoRail. These guys have written a great patch for Hammett’s CombineJS Component.
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I’ve been giving the navigation management section of Membrane some thought over the weekend. This has also meant I’ve had to consider the url rewriting side of things.
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In my last post about Hijax I was only hijacking links. Here’s what I had to do to hijack form submissions.
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No coding has started on this section of Membrane yet, however I need to start considering the functionality as this will impact quite a few other areas of the system.
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