Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of FrequentlyAskedQuestionsRewrite

Timestamp:

03/18/09 13:18:38 (16 years ago)

Author:

Fran Boon

Comment:

Using a framework reduces our maintenance overheads & allows us to focus on the user-facing application

FrequentlyAskedQuestionsRewrite

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 It is being done to address some real problems with the the current Sahana codebase:
- * Sahana is currently based on design principles which have since become sub-optimal due to the emergence of new Rapid Application Development frameworks & highly-interactive Web 2.0 UIs.
+ * Sahana is developed in a custom PHP framework which is based on design principles which have since become sub-optimal due to the emergence of new MVC frameworks & highly-interactive Web 2.0 UIs.
 
- * The current codebase has grown organically since it was originally designed - this has meant that standards have broken down & the code is becoming harder to maintain & add new functionality to.
+ * The current codebase has grown organically since it was originally designed - standards have broken down & the code is becoming harder to maintain.
 
  * It is currently hard to access data from modules via consistent methods...this is required for serious integration e.g. in GIS & Messaging.
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+ * Using a framework reduces our maintenance overheads & allows us to focus on the user-facing application:
+  * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J91Ownq-7g
 
  * PHP is not a good language for building large, maintainable applications: http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2002/papers/html/php/index.html
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   * poor separation of Presentation & Code
 
- * Whilst there is a fairly coherent framework, it isn't adhered to consistently - different developers have done very different things in different modules
+ * Whilst there is a fairly coherent custom framework, it isn't adhered to consistently - different developers have done very different things in different modules
  * The Javascript components especially are very varied with lots of manual AJAX & the use of several different libraries
   * using a modern library means no issues with browser incompatibilities