Develop Your CMS In Your CMS

Stewart LordTechnical Architect

Geoff NicolTechnical Architect

Overview

• Why?

• Technologies

• Embedding Ace

• Staging a Theme

• Developing a (Pinterest) Module

What’s the Point?

• Cool technology

• Cloud friendly

• No install required

• Great for themes, light development

What Is Chronicle?

Chronicle is a new CMS with branching. Uses the Perforce Engine, built on the Zend Framework and the Dojo Toolkit.

Ace

Ace is a powerful JavaScript-based editor with great performance, syntax-highlighting, code-folding, etc.

Pinterest

Pinterest is a popular photo sharing site where users 'pin' images they like.

How Does Ace Work?

• Written in JavaScript

• Started as two independent projects.

• Bespin/Skywriter used canvas. Ace uses the DOM.

• Merged in 2010 (after JSConf.eu 2010, in Berlin)

• Fast and feature rich!

How Did We Embed It?

Ace just provides a text area...

How Did We Embed It?

...Dojo and Chronicle provide everything else.

How Did We Embed It?

Backend is a simple REST-ish web service.

/ide/files/ide/paths/ide/copy/ide/move

Live Demo

IDE Overview

Stage a Theme

Create Pinterest Module

Questions?

Stewart Lordslord@perforce.com

Geoff Nicolgnicol@perforce.com