Extending Curl

friedger — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:36:56 GMT

By now I finished my article about Curl, but I am still learning about the differences between RIA technologies. Therefore, I very much liked the performance comparison posted at Comparing the performance of Curl and Flex 3.

Currently, I am thinking about how to integrate an sql-like "select" statement into Curl that would work on Collections, RecordsView and RecordSource. Something like the following comes to my mind:

{define-syntax public {select ?fields:expression from ?source:expression
                          ?where:{optional where ?cond:expression}}
 
}

It would allow to write universal queries/filters that can be applied to any kind of collections. I heard that you can do things like that in MS Silverlight as well.

Does it make sense? Is it useful at all or already implemented? What is the result of this expression, a list or something of the same type as the source?

The second thing I am interested in right now is how to improve the integration of office applications. Business tends to be related to Outlook, Excel and so on. It might be useful to provide an API for this. Maybe something that can be used with Google Docs, Microsoft Office and OpenOffice alternatively. Probably, I have to think more about the requirements before I can come up with a suggestion. As there were some questions about it in the forums other people might be interested as well.

Introduction

friedger — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:37:14 GMT

Currently, I try to introduce Curl to the German speaking community. Yesterday, I was offered to write a section about Curl in a book about AIR. (So if you want me to says something special about Curl let me know). I also joined a forum about RIA in the most popular German social network. Unfortunately, Curl wasn't mentioned there yet(!). I am waiting for first comments and will blog here what they think.

Today, I also found two open source projects hosted a google, one is mainly about testing (http://code.google.com/p/zuzu-curl) but intended as a container for anything useful about Curl, the other one contains currently one benchmark (http://code.google.com/p/curl-benchmark-exchange). The zuzu project has a nice list of future plans. So, if you are looking for a smaller or bigger challenge have a look there.

(As this is my first post, please feel free to comment about what you would like and what you wouldn't like to read here. I am still undecided what to do about the other Curl blog at http://curl-friedger.blogspot.com/)

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Extending Curl

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