Alagad.com Built Using FarCry
If you are reading this, chances are you have noticed that Alagad.com was given a little bit of a makeover. Besides getting a new coat of paint, we also ripped out all the plumbing and replaced it with FarCry. Most people would descibe FarCry as a content management system (CMS), but it is much more than that. FarCry is more of a framework, on which the CMS we all know is built.During development the Alagad team ran into some walls, which stemmed more from unfamiliarity with FarCry than anything else. Over the next few weeks, I plan in putting together a series of entries that will details some of the issues we encocuntered, how we got around them and stuf we leaerned about FarCry as we went along.The purpose of this entry is to offer some high level advice if you decide to head down the FarCry path.
- FarCry is a framework. It will take time to understand the workflow,
and inner workings. Give it time. Developing in FarCry gets easier
the more you do it. - Let FarCry do what it was designed to do. FarCry handles things on the
backend differently than you probably would. Embrace this, don’t fight
it. - http:/groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev?hl=en should become your best
friend. The list is fairly active, and frequently the development team
for FarCry will respond to your questions. - http:/docs.farcrycms.org:8080/confluence/dashboard.action should
become your second best friend. While not perfect, the documentation
for the latest versoin of FarCry are better than in any other version.
Here is an incomplete list of items I plan on covering in upcoming entries, if there is something you would like to see, please leave a comment.
- Creating Custom Content Types (objects)
- Creating and Using Display Rules
- Using FormTools
- Overriding Native Methods
I look forward to the upcoming FarCry entries.
I am really looking forward to seeing this series of posts. I tried to do a PoC with Farcry for my company and ran into quite a few usability issues, so I’d like to see what I could have done differently. Thanks in advance for taking the time to write these entries up.
Thank you for doing this. I’m really looking forward to it. I’ve tried Farcry a couple times and ran into too many road blocks each time.
Hopefully this will help!
Looking forward to this. I am just starting down the FarCry road, customizing it for use in the health care industry.
The new RSS feed does not seem to include the author’s name for each post. Is this something you could add?
@David – I’ll see what I can do.
Be sure to take a look at the newly released developer course
http://blog.daemon.com.au/go/blog-post/farcry-4-0-training-course-released
Oh and any contributions to the documentation wiki are very gratefully received.
Great to hear your FarCry project has been so successful!
– geoff
http://www.daemon.com.au/
@David – Done!