Seaside

Last Thursday I had the honour of giving a talk on the seaside web framework. It is implemented in smalltalk and it provides a lot of interesting ideas:

• Using builders rather than templates to spit out html.
• A component model for composing interfaces as well as for expressing page flow.
• Encaspulating Ajax goodness
• Excellent debugging and monitoring tool support
  

• An interesting optional metadata driven approach to the UI (magritte)

It has a small but constantly growing and dedicated community. Below I added a list of starting points

Links

• The seaside homepage
• The tutorial of the HPI is probably the best way to learn about seaside and its world
• Ramon Leon is blogging regularly about more advanced topics.
• Lukas Renggli is the creator of magritte
• DabbleDB is implemented in Seaside and a very interesting application.