Learning about server

[John Craig]

I wasn't thinking about writing "the big book of everything you can 
conceivably do with LiveCode Server"  :D
More like "The Hitchhiker's Guide To LiveCode Server"... with some 
suitably large, friendly message on the cover ...

I still buy books - I'd rather leaf through a hard copy after staring at 
a screen all day.  One of the first things I did after discovering 
Revolution was to search for books, and - sadly - there were none.


On 10/06/2014 16:49, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Dar wrote:
> > My immediate need would not be a way to deliver web content, but just
> > as a way to make a console application on Windows.  But, I can see
> > the former in my future.
>
> There are so many useful and interesting things to do with LiveCode 
> Server, and even standalones on servers, it's almost overwhelming.
>
> These days a majority of the work I do is making client-server apps 
> where LiveCode runs both sides.  I currently have only one site where 
> LC is used to generate output for the Web - everything else is either 
> APIs for other services, or the backend for LC-based clients used in 
> workgroup settings.
>
> Given the wide range of ways LC is useful on servers, with all due 
> respect to the ambitions of those interested in writing a book on it, 
> it would be a big one.
>
> Last month I outlined my plans for the LiveCode Server Center, in the 
> works for LiveCode Journal now that I finally put a CMS in place there 
> (and of course the CMS is made with LiveCode, all the way down to the 
> data store):
> <http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2014-May/201516.html>
>
> As I wrote then, I don't mean to discourage anyone from writing a 
> book, and indeed there is likely a good audience for it.
>
> But given the scope of what LC Server can do, and the many other 
> aspects that come into play with using it well (the critical role of 
> performance in the inherently-short CGI runtime lifecycle, how 
> mod_rewrite works, SSH keys, bash, rsync, custom servers like looping 
> CLI daemons and simpler GUI apps, REST API design, and more), it would 
> be nice if there were also a community-driven effort to provide as 
> much material as we can in a format that's as free and open as 
> LiveCode itself.
>
> That said, books also play a useful role in evangelizing LiveCode as a 
> platform, esp. when they come from established publishers. A good 
> publisher can do wonders for reinforcing a strong image of LiveCode 
> and its ever-expanding third-party ecosystem.  I have some contacts at 
> publishers and would be happy to provide introductions if useful.
>
> And the upside for book publishing is that with RunRev's newsletters 
> having displaced much of the energy that used to go into LiveCode 
> Journal, at this point LCJ is mostly a one-man show.  Being heavily 
> booked with client commitments, devoting time to fleshing out what can 
> go there has been challenging, and somewhat slow.
>
> Still, I felt obliged to note what's coming with the LiveCode Server 
> Center at LCJ (hopefully sooner than later), and to extend an 
> invitation for anyone interested in sharing free learning materials to 
> consider LiveCodeJournal.com as an available venue for community 
> resources, not only for LiveCode Server but anything else you feel 
> would be of interest to the community.
>
> We have all the infrastructure Dreamhost provides, and plenty of disk 
> space and bandwidth, all there for use by the LiveCode community.
>
> -- 
>   Richard Gaskin
>   LiveCode Community Manager
>   richard at livecode.org
>
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