[436] in Software_Announce
BRL upgraded to 2.1.28 on athena with easy-to-follow tutorial
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce R. Lewis)
Fri Nov 2 12:38:13 2001
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 12:37:54 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200111021737.MAA19875@home-on-the-dome.mit.edu>
From: "Bruce R. Lewis" <brlewis@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU
cc: wa@MIT.EDU, web-agents@MIT.EDU
Of more note to Athena users than the incremental improvements since BRL
2.1.26 is the tutorial now available as preparation for my 2002 IAP
activity. This tutorial makes it easy to get going editing BRL pages in
your own locker, including ones that do SQL database operations. This
is thanks to Hypersonic SQL, a free embedded database that is built into
the tutorial. This is a big jump up from the brlstart script used
previously.
Here is more info from the web page:
http://www.mit.edu/iap/brl/
After cgiemail, then what?
For web developers who are getting impatient with the limitations of
cgiemail, BRL is the next big thing. It allows for more complex uses,
not by making the syntax more complicated, but through simpler syntax
that allows features to be combined in interesting ways.
A tutorial has been set up on Athena to guide you through increasingly
complex uses of BRL. After four short lessons, you'll be doing more
than can be done with cgiemail. After another four short lessons
you'll be way past cgiemail, and you'll know how to install your
creation where anyone can use it, any time. More lessons are there for
those interested in database-driven web programming.
To run the tutorial, type the following at your athena% prompt:
setup brlewis
In the window that pops up (or new shell prompt on dialup), type
copybrl
learnbrl
The first command copies files into a tomcat directory under your home
directory. These are example files you edit as you learn BRL. You only
have to type copybrl once. The second command, learnbrl, starts up a
web server on the local host, port 8080, to assist in your
experimentation. A web page is then brought up to start you into the
tutorial.
When done, please type remove in the new window or new shell prompt.
This shuts down the web server, freeing up resources for those who log
in after you.
The purpose of the IAP workshop is to provide help to people at
various stages of learning BRL, whether just taking a step or two
beyond cgiemail, or needing a prequel to 6.171 (formerly 6.916).
However, you don't have to wait until the IAP workshop to participate
in a community of BRL users. Subscribe to the brl-users mailing list,
which still has fairly low traffic.
--
Bruce R. Lewis <brlewis@[(if (brl-related? message)
"users.sourceforge.net"
"alum.mit.edu")]> http://brl.sourceforge.net/
