Easy newbie questions

[MFer...@myofficelink.com]

Hi,

1. I'm evaluating Firerift for purchase. Firerift.com looks like a
great site, and videos are good, but there isn't much recent news or
activity there. I assume it's going strong?

2. Has Titan been released as open-source yet? The news I found on
Google seems to be quite dated. Is there an expected release date?

3. Wakanda.org is releasing an open-source back end server that uses
JSON and javascript as its programming language, along with JQuery.
Free download available. Has anyone checked its compatibility with
Titan and Firerift? I am considering using Firerift with a Wakanda
backend. Any comments are welcome.

Thank you,

Michael Ferguson

[MFer...@myofficelink.com]

Also, the system requirements on firerift.com call for php and MySQL.
Is that just to provide access to a default database back end? I had
hoped to get away from php and MySQL as requirements.

Thanks,

Michael Ferguson

On Jun 13, 5:18 pm, "MFergu...@MyOfficeLink.com"

[Pachito Marco Calabrese]

Basically Firerift enable to access the data stored and managed with MySQL and PHP in a JSON way...nothing more...so you'll use HTML class to access the data stored in the database... and ofcourse you can attatch (some few) options always as a HTML class. Wakanda is a completly different thing!

Pachito Marco Calabrese

[MFer...@myofficelink.com]

Thank you, Pachito!

So, if I understand correctly, Firerift would not be a CMS to impose
over Wakanda. However, since Titan is javascript based, shouldn't it
work with Wakanda?

I understand that there has been no word on the release of Titan, and
it looks like it is going to remain proprietary. Any news on that?

Thanks,

Michael

On Jun 14, 9:23 am, Pachito Marco Calabrese <pm.calabr...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Basically Firerift enable to access the data stored and managed with MySQL
> and PHP in a JSON way...nothing more...so you'll use HTML class to access
> the data stored in the database... and ofcourse you can attatch (some few)
> options always as a HTML class. Wakanda is a completly different thing!
>
> Pachito Marco Calabrese
>

> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:10 PM, MFergu...@MyOfficeLink.com <

[Pachito Marco Calabrese]

I dont know Wakanda (but looks cool indeed) but from what i read on the wakanda.org site the two things are different and i believe cannot work side by side. Titan and Firerift are two different project. Firerift is a CMS and the back end is based on Codeigniter(PHP 4) and the front end is Titan (Javascript). I've worked a bit with Firerift but even if the idea is quite intresting it needs some modification and they will came with Firerift 2 i believe (i dont know much about the date release, but i hope soon) about Titan i dont know anything...the only things i can tell you that Drew Wilson(the author) it uses often in it's projects...that's it! I do hope the Firerift (and Titan) will be back soon with a vibrant community and a clear and precise documentation, because i really like this project!!

BR

Pachito Marco Calabrese