Something-driven development

I’ve been playing around wit h YUI’s new application framework over the past few weeks, basically building on the ToDo list example app, extending it for a basic interface for the Open Goal Tracker project. Here’s a 2 min demo:

I’m loving the MVC separation in the client code, separation of templates, ability to use real links for navigating within the client (which will also work when copy-n-pasted to hit the server) etc.

If anyone is interested, you can play with the code yourself:

$ bzr branch lp:~michael.nelson/open-goal-tracker/html5-client-play
$ cd html5-client-play
$ fab test

which will setup the dev environment and run the django tests… followed by

$ fab runserver

To play with the demo html5 client: http://localhost:8000/static/index.html
To run the javascript unit tests: http://localhost:8000/static/app/tests/test_models.html

or find out more about the purpose of the app with the first 2 mins of this video from a year ago outlining where i hope to go with the application: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT7P-u-86sM (when time permits ).