How's it going?
Tom Locke
I know some of you are seeing problems and can't get very far with
Bambuu yet. I'm working on getting those fixed and there's some tips
below. How about the rest of you? Have people been able to create
apps? Is it working??? : )
We'd really like to get your initial reactions.
From our logs, here's some problems that people are hitting:
- Entity and field names should be all lower-case letters (no
spaces). That's down to bugs btw, not by design. Cap letters and
spaces will be allowed.
- When adding widgets to your pages, there may be dependencies with
what you've done in the database tab. For example if you add
"Categories Menu" and you haven't added the "Categorized" add-on to
any of your entities, things will break. Again, that will be fixed!
- We're not checking for safe entity names yet, so for example
creating an entity called "user" will break things, as it clashes with
the User model which is provided automatically.
Cheers
Tom
kevinpfromnm
Probably should add restrictions for ruby reserved words for entity
and field names as well. I wasn't thinking and added an entity class
(as in like school class) and it breaks pretty completely. Doh!
Brett Nelson
Both times I left the site for a period of several hours then came back to work on it and the records were gone.
Brett
--- On Wed, 11/4/09, kevinpfromnm <kevinp...@gmail.com> wrote:
Brett Nelson
When it sends a cart user to paypal (iframe sandbox) it prefills the email address of the website paypal account in the login, probably should be blank (for guest at least) or use the user accounts email address for that.
Brett
--- On Wed, 11/4/09, Brett Nelson <blizza...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Tom Locke
> Probably should add restrictions for ruby reserved words for entity
> and field names as well. I wasn't thinking and added an entity class
> (as in like school class) and it breaks pretty completely. Doh!
Absolutely - that's next on my list in fact.
Tom
Tom Locke
OK that's bad : )
The entire dev site including the database is deleted if you leave it
idle for 2 hours. In theory we copy the important stuff, like the
database and uploaded images, to a safe place first. Looks like that's
not working in some situations.
Will investigate!
Tom
Tom Locke
OK - I guess this is the next on my list then!
> When it sends a cart user to paypal (iframe sandbox) it prefills the
> email address of the website paypal account in the login, probably
> should be blank (for guest at least) or use the user accounts email
> address for that.
Another one for the list - thanks.
And apologies for losing your data.
Tom
Brett Nelson
I really dig what you are doing with this and am hoping to be among the first users creating production/published sites with it.
Brett
--- On Wed, 11/4/09, Tom Locke <t...@tomlocke.com> wrote:
> From: Tom Locke <t...@tomlocke.com>
> Subject: [bambuu] Re: How's it going?
Tom Locke
> the first users creating production/published sites with it.
Great to hear!
Can you give us an insight as to what kind of app / site you want to
build?
The really big question on our minds is - how powerful / flexible does
Bambuu have to be in order to get our users all the way to the finish
line with their apps. And of course that all depends what kind of apps
people want to build.
Would love to hear feedback from others on this point too!
Thanks
Tom
Brett Nelson
She would like to sell what she makes on the web. They are the same kind of thing but they are all handmade and unique so a picture of each one would have to be posted with a quantity of one and then taken out when it was sold. The tie in to paypal would work great for this I think.
Brett
--- On Sat, 11/7/09, Tom Locke <t...@tomlocke.com> wrote:
> From: Tom Locke <t...@tomlocke.com>
> Subject: [bambuu] Re: How's it going?
> To: bambu...@googlegroups.com
Matt Jones
On Nov 7, 2009, at 5:31 AM, Tom Locke wrote:
>
>> I really dig what you are doing with this and am hoping to be among
>> the first users creating production/published sites with it.
>
> Great to hear!
>
> Can you give us an insight as to what kind of app / site you want to
> build?
>
> The really big question on our minds is - how powerful / flexible
> does Bambuu have to be in order to get our users all the way to the
> finish line with their apps. And of course that all depends what
> kind of apps people want to build.
Here's an app that I think would be a reasonable target to build in
Bambuu:
Right now, it's a fairly simple Hobo site. We knocked the whole thing
together in less than 40 hours of work.
Everybody will get to see the source once I finish cleaning it up; I'm
planning to make that app part of the "Hobo integration tests" I've
been plotting about for a while.
--Matt Jones
Tom Locke
available and see what we'd need to add to Bambuu to be able to create
this particular app.
A couple of things I noticed right away are
- The search form on the front page - we'd need some kind of widget
for those.
- The search results use cutomised cards by the look of it -
something we don't support yet.
As soon as we've got the basic stability stuff out of the way, the big
question is going to be what we add to Bambuu in terms of flexibility.
It will come down to where the demand lies.
Tom
Owen
not sure if it is just the spinner that is the issue.