Very impressed, what's next?

[Mathew Byrne]

First of all thanks for the quick reply the other day Rizqi, I've
since managed to wrap my head around the library and get a much better
understanding of what chain.js can do and how I can integrate it into
my applications. It's definitely the best looking data binding
solution for jQuery available (a quick google for 'jquery data
binding' confirms this!)

My question is where are you planning to take this from here? I can
see a lot of community support for this tool, and have no doubt from
the discussions here and elsewhere that you'd have no trouble finding
developers and community members willing to donate time and resources
to the project.

Keeping it's home base at github is great and works for a lot of other
projects (i.e. Sproutcore), but you might consider a separate web
landing page? I notice 'chainjs.org' is currently available.

Anyway keep up the good work, I'm super excited to see what's next for
this project.

[Rizqi Ahmad]

Hi Mathew,

yeah, I am planning to do next steps with chain.js, and talked about
that with Sindre (who recently joined the dev team).
Our current planning is to complete the docs (in code documentation)
and then release it with a dedicated website.

The docs which I am currently working on is to make it easier to
understand the code, so other devs will be able to make improvements
more easily.

the current roadmap is:

- Finishing docs
- release v0.2 (expected: 05. Oct 08)
- Testing Suite (By Sindre)
- Documentation generator (Extracting docs from source code)
- Optimizations (Sindre & Me)
- Other Improvements for v0.3

l would be very happy if you would join our team. Sent me an email and
I will tell you my IM to directly contact me.

Regards
Rizqi

[Rusco]

Hi Rizqi,

maybe you could enhance slightly the examples for 0.2.
Here my most wanted features:

1. How do I filter for either the firstname or the lastname in the
items-filtering example ? (using 2 different textbuttons for input).
I assume this is possible, I am just too stupid (lazy ?) to figure
it out.

2. Show better the use of nested data structures like for example mapp
a nested json document to a inner <ol.../> which is nested inside an
other <ol.../> .

Nonetheless I am impressed of this tool, thanks a lot !

Regards
Rusco

[Rizqi Ahmad]

Hi Rusco,

1. It is explained here: http://github.com/raid-ox/chain.js/wikis/elementitems

for nested data structure it has to be done manually with builder:
here an example: http://friendpaste.com/5fZDAn7m

You can also apply interaction.js to a recursive content like this:
http://code.riiv.net/demos/tree/

Regards,

Rizqi

[Rusco]

Rizqi,

could you have a quick look at my snippet: http://friendpaste.com/rwuASJZn

Here I try to sort either by "first"name or "last"name. But actually
what I notice is that both filters work they same: They filter for the
concatenated first + last values.
I must miss sth., like reset or other parameters.

Thanks
Rusco.

[Rizqi Ahmad]

I will answer the question soon, (a bit busy lately)

[Rizqi Ahmad]

Hi rusco,

it is actually a bug :) , It will definitely be fixed in v0.2 when it
is released. (expected release date: 05.10.08)

Regards,

Rizqi