New Monorail site : www.njtheater.org

[James Curran]

I meant to mention this here.....

The site that I've been working on for the past two years (learning
Monorail, IoC, Javascript, AJAX, JSON, jQuery, CSS et al along the
way), has just gone into public beta. check it out and offer your
comments;


http://www.njtheater.org

[Henrik Feldt]

Cool data set you have there and it seems responsive enough. I would suggest
that you read a lot from www.alistapart.com because they really have good
articles for web developers and web designers. The articles around 2003-2004
focus on designing with CSS in depth, many of which might help you in your
future personal development.

Keep up the good work!

[Mauricio Scheffer]

Interesting idea! I agree with Henrik that it could use some design...
I also found a couple of bugs:

http://www.njtheater.org/Person/List.rails doesn't seem to be getting
its view parameters... it shows $Name, ${person.FullName}, etc

http://www.njtheater.org/Directory/vCard.rails?ID=56 returns a rescue
page.

On this page: http://www.njtheater.org/Person/978/Christopher-J-Guell/display.rails
the links to the Troupe are e.g. http://www.njtheater.org/Troupe?id=314
when it should be http://www.njtheater.org/Troupe/display.rails?id=314

Also many urls could use some SEO, like:

http://www.njtheater.org/Troupe/display.rails?id=314
http://www.njtheater.org/Venue/display.rails?id=32
http://www.njtheater.org/Show/display.rails?id=3753

I'd also put a big search box up there... maybe NHibernate.Search! And
RSS! And OpenSearch! Sorry, got carried away :-)

Cheers,
Mauricio

[James Curran]

Thanks tremendously!

The problem with creating something over two years (on a laptop, on
the train ride to work), is that things you write this year break
things you wrote & tested last year...(yeah, yeah.... my TDD skills
need work)

>> http://www.njtheater.org/Directory/vCard.rails?ID=56 returns a rescue page.

It didn't like me using .Trim on a null string.

>> http://www.njtheater.org/Person/List.rails
That page was just a mess. (related to the known problem on
ViewComponents polluting the parent page's PropertyBag with new
items).

>> the links to the Troupe are e.g. http://www.njtheater.org/Troupe?id=314

Now that's just weird, as it's been written using an
HtmlHelper.LinkTo() call, that is fundalmentally the same as the
previous column, which worked correctly. (I've replaced it a manually
written A tag, which uses an SEO link:
http://www.njtheater.org/Troupe/name/barn-theater.rails )

Of course, these changes have been made on the laptop, and won't be
online till I get home tonight....

> I'd also put a big search box up there... maybe NHibernate.Search! And
> RSS! And OpenSearch! Sorry, got carried away :-)

Well, I can't do NHibernate.Search, since I used MSSQL/Linq2SQL
instead on ActiveRecord, but I was planning to slap some nLucenre on
it evetually. The RSS feeds are also planned and will come sooner.

The really great think about Monorail (over the originally version @
njtheater.COM, in clasic ASP) is that I can now do site-wide
incremental changes.

--
Truth,
James