FarCry Mini Video Tutorials

[modius]

Thinking I might put together some little video tutorials.  Only a few
minutes each.  Looking for ideas for things you think the community
might find useful.

Also looking for other systems that have similar tutorials that we
could do a comparison too.  For example, would be nice to link to how
something is done in say Joomla, Drupal, whatever, and then show how
it is done in FarCry.

Just thoughts at this stage -- so wacky ideas welcome.

-- geoff
http://www.daemon.com.au/
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[admin-256]

Hi Geoff

How about a video tutorial on how to import existing dynamic websites into
Farcry? I have a website with well above 7000 news (categorised).

And another tutorial on how to install Farcrypicnik plugin? I can't get it
running.

Kind regards

Tunç

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Sent: 28 April 2008 12:42
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Subject: [farcry-dev] FarCry Mini Video Tutorials


Thinking I might put together some little video tutorials.  Only a few
minutes each.  Looking for ideas for things you think the community
might find useful.

Also looking for other systems that have similar tutorials that we
could do a comparison too.  For example, would be nice to link to how
something is done in say Joomla, Drupal, whatever, and then show how
it is done in FarCry.

Just thoughts at this stage -- so wacky ideas welcome.

-- geoff
http://www.daemon.com.au/





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[bazD-2]

Short video tutorials is a great idea.

Sometimes its much easier and quicker to be shown how to do things in
step by step form, rather than to read through lots of wiki content
where you can still be left wondering how to do stuff.

On Apr 28, 12:51 pm, <ad...@...> wrote:

> Hi Geoff
>
> How about a video tutorial on how to import existing dynamic websites into
> Farcry? I have a website with well above 7000 news (categorised).
>
> And another tutorial on how to install Farcrypicnik plugin? I can't get it
> running.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Tunç
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: farcry-dev@... [mailto:farcry-dev@...] On
>
> Behalf Of modius
> Sent: 28 April 2008 12:42
> To: farcry-dev
> Subject: [farcry-dev] FarCry Mini Video Tutorials
>
> Thinking I might put together some little video tutorials.  Only a few
> minutes each.  Looking for ideas for things you think the community
> might find useful.
>
> Also looking for other systems that have similar tutorials that we
> could do a comparison too.  For example, would be nice to link to how
> something is done in say Joomla, Drupal, whatever, and then show how
> it is done in FarCry.
>
> Just thoughts at this stage -- so wacky ideas welcome.
>
> -- geoffhttp://www.daemon.com.au/

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[Jeff Goldman-2]

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Great idea.
I know I need some visual aids.

I am trying to get a comfort level on plugins and dynamic content types.
I have been reading the plugin guides I have found.
But what about changes in 5?
I have downloaded the FarCry dictionary for cfEclipse but I can't get both the FarCry and the cf8 Language dictionarys to load at the same time.

I know I can use the scaffold to create a custom version of lets say News for example.
I think [correct me if I am wrong], I can then alter that and add fields and function that I need.

My situation is this.
I need to be able to have people on the public site submit/create articles as well as respond to a bunch of survey questions and post everything into the database.
Then allow the publishers to reviewed and approved/decline the submissions.

Later I am going to want to have a login segment on the public site so people can fill out and maintain a profile.

I have also been dissecting the new player plugin and the idlForm plugin.
But their use and behavior is very different then say a news item.

I am not even sure which approach I should take, or if they are really all that different.
I know this is straight forward but I just don't have anything to examine and I am trying to cut as much development time as possible so I can meet a deadline.

Perhaps all this is already covered somewhere if so I apologize for my ramblings and please point me in the right direction.
I am very impressed with FarCry and want to extend my compliments again to all those who have created it.

Thanks,
Jeff G

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Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 6:41:53 AM
Subject: [farcry-dev] FarCry Mini Video Tutorials


Thinking I might put together some little video tutorials.  Only a few
minutes each.  Looking for ideas for things you think the community
might find useful.

Also looking for other systems that have similar tutorials that we
could do a comparison too.  For example, would be nice to link to how
something is done in say Joomla, Drupal, whatever, and then show how
it is done in FarCry.

Just thoughts at this stage -- so wacky ideas welcome.

-- geoff
http://www.daemon.com.au/

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[modius]

On Apr 28, 9:51 pm, <ad...@...> wrote:
> How about a video tutorial on how to import existing dynamic websites into
> Farcry? I have a website with well above 7000 news (categorised).

That might be more than a few minutes :)  But in essence you create a
content type or identify the content type you are migrating to.  Then
you run a query to gather all your legacy data, loop over a .cfm
template that converts the row into a struct and runs createData() on
your content type.

> And another tutorial on how to install Farcrypicnik plugin? I can't get it
> running.

Now this I could do.  I think the current doco is missing a reference
to the Picnik api key you need to place in the
application.stplugins.farcrypicnik scope.

Thanks,

-- geoff
http://www.daemon.com.au/
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[Joel Cass]

I think having some short tutorials on the fundamentals would help:

- How to create custom types
- The best way(s) to read data (e.g. getMultiple vs getMultipleByQuery
vs getData?)
- How to create and save data programmatically
- Little-known shortcuts

And then some more advanced perhaps:

- Customising administration (layout, style, nav etc)
- Creating a website from scratch
- Integration with external systems (eg. LDAP, Web Services)

I guess anyone could fill in the blanks given a good foundation.

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Sent: Tuesday, 29 April 2008 9:22 AM
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Subject: [farcry-dev] Re: FarCry Mini Video Tutorials


On Apr 28, 9:51 pm, <ad...@...> wrote:
> How about a video tutorial on how to import existing dynamic websites
into
> Farcry? I have a website with well above 7000 news (categorised).

That might be more than a few minutes :)  But in essence you create a
content type or identify the content type you are migrating to.  Then
you run a query to gather all your legacy data, loop over a .cfm
template that converts the row into a struct and runs createData() on
your content type.

> And another tutorial on how to install Farcrypicnik plugin? I can't
get it
> running.

Now this I could do.  I think the current doco is missing a reference
to the Picnik api key you need to place in the
application.stplugins.farcrypicnik scope.

Thanks,

-- geoff
http://www.daemon.com.au/


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[Gavin Stewart-3]

Hi Geoff, sounds like a great idea. The most common thing i find
people get confused about is the concept of containers and rules. A
tutorial explaining this and a sample of creating a custom rule would
help a lot of people out.

Cheers
Gav
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