After years /decades of using tasks managers: Lotus Notes, Outlook, Palm (that was a good one), etc.. and now using Appigo, after using Toodledo, a friend of mine and me (both programmers) got tired of how far are all those from our personal GTD style and we decided to build one, something that we can customize as much as we can moving forward. We will do it open source open to public.
Appigo and Toodledo a great inspirations from a functional and technological point of view. We like the server on the cloud, the clients on browser and mobile platforms.
We have been thinking this for a while but when we saw Grails and did some of the tutorials, coincidentally on the task manager subject, we said ‘great, we can use this technology to build ours, this sounds cool’. (at least for the web part and the model, the core part).
Following Appigo strategy also, we plan to use Google App Engine for hosting the back-end.
On the mobile side, since we do not have time for hard core objective-c and stuff and we have a decent experience on Javascript frameworks we decided to use the now popular HTML5/Javascript approach and we think we decided for Sencha but any other Framework may be fine (Dojo, jQuery, etc).
Not surprisingly, our mobile and web clients will communicate with the server primarily using REST and we plan to have a server-side MVC (Grails) and a client-side MVC (like Sencha or Dojo propose)
We do not want to bother too much about databases, we love the Grails idea of creating a model-driven objects and storage.
Our project will be open source and hosted on github for anybody to use it.
Ok, here is the actual question:
Do you guys know good books or sample apps or articles that can help us go through this end-to-end. Of course we could go alone, but we will greatly enjoy going through some books, tutorials first to glue of these things together, decide good patterns to use, learn tips, experiences..etc. We do not have experience with Grails. (but a lot of java and javascript web development), of course I can find books about Grails but we want something end to end, with a good sample focusing on practices and patterns.
Basically a book or article that somehow touches part of this topic “good practices and experience building something like a task manager that runs on Google cloud platform, has the server side done with Grails and the browser and mobile clients using robust HTML5 javascript frameworks”.
Can anybody point us into this?
Thanks!
I have done a couple of engines that are build using grails + the google app engine. My experience is that you are going to have to build up the knowledge thought actually doing the work.
It’s very easy to start out but once you get about knee deep there are some very interesting problems that can crop up.
Now that being said the main resources that I have found useful are the following:
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596522735.do
http://www.amazon.com/Groovy-Action-Dierk-Koenig/dp/1932394842
http://www.manning.com/gsmith/
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/overview
The link above gives a good java over view. But you will need to be able to distill that down to groovy.
http://www.grails.org/plugin/app-engine
and finally http://www.google.com
but i found that most of the blogs out there are dated to earlier version of grails. And a lot of the issues they were seeing have been fix in 2.0 or are no longer issues at all.