[rt-users] Interview with Jesse Vincent

Todd Chapman todd at chaka.net
Mon Oct 3 13:41:58 EDT 2005


On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 01:58:40PM -0400, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 01:22:23PM -0400, Todd Chapman wrote:
> > So what are the pieces of Jifty? I assume DBI is at the
> > core. I always figured that RT's access control
> > architecture could be a separte perl module. I guess
> > custom fields, transactions, and attributes are all good
> > candidates. What else? 
> 
> Let's put it this way: Jifty is my vision of a sane way to build
> web-based applications in perl. I've taken what I've learned over the
> past...yow...decade and tried to extract out the commonalities and
> complexities so that what you're writing is _your application_, not a
> bunch of boilerplate code for dealing with the same thing time and time
> again. 
> 
> Custom fields, transactions and attributes don't currently figure into
> this. I mean, they're all easy to do, but they're not exactly common to
> every application.  
> 

By ommission are you saying the access control does fit into "this"?
What types of stuff will be covered? Just excited to see what
cool new tools I can look forward to...



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