my own summary of weblocks experience

[radisb]

After reading Anthony's post I would like to say that:

I am also using weblocks for my web needs and i would really like to see weblocks moving forward somehow. Even if the project was abandoned, it has done enough good to me and it is in a stable state for me that I would continue using its last release. I am a recent user of both lisp and weblocks.

 

The app I am building currently is a small action-plan , project-monitoring type of app with projects-departments-employees assosiations and that kind of stuff along with web dashboards and other presentational goodies that show projects progress and other stats.It also has some data entry forms.

 I use kyoto tycoon with the standard kyoto cabinet as a backend, which I must say it has been very easy and a good surprise. Especially its http interface is very convienient. I use a  [cl-store->base64->http to kyoto] type of model for persistence for both compounds and plain primitives. I used elephant in the past but right now for me weblocks+kyoto is the only combination with which I spend more time in presentational-app logic issues than in plumbing.

I know all this isnt much at the time ,but I just wanted to post my experience so to encourage people.  I will try to release all the project (along with a small wrapper library around kyoto http/rpc protocol), after summer.

[Anthony Fairchild]

Thanks for sharing!  It is good to see others having success with Weblocks.  What you are doing with Kyoto Cabinet sounds really interesting.  I'll have to look into that.

Anthony

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[radisb]

I think kyoto tycoon + kyoto cabinet hit the sweet spot in the balance between features and ease of use. (Ideally I would like to use only cabinet because of my local only needs through cffi, but KC is in C++ and I dont dare to begin that endevour now). Then I saw the http/rpc interface of kyoto tycoon to the underlying database (which by default is kyoto cabinet) is very convenient. I use drakma to do the requests.