Revision as of 14:52, 18 March 2011

High Value Integration Points for Orion

Brainstorming of integration scenarios, followed by marking each one with who might provide it.

• (I) = IBM Orion team is interested
• (P) = Providers might drive the integration with their site
• (C) = Community/contributors who "scratch their own itch"
• (B) = Boris-style simple integrations for evangelizing

(P) Mockups (Balsamiq, Mockingbird)

• Compare running site/prototype to mockup/wireframe
• Store wireframe file in Orion
• simplify import/export scenarios

(P) GitHub

• Make and share Gists
• Links in Orion to GitHub Pages
• button in github to edit in Orion

Boilerplates/Project Generation

• (B) initializr.com
• (P) startupphonegap.org

(P) Drupal/Joomla/Wordpress

• embed Orion editor for theme edits (CSS, HTML, etc.)
• SCM for look and feel related changed files

Library-aware plugins: (C)JQuery, (I)Dojo, etc.

• JSDoc-based code completion
• go to the source of a plugin
• which js file? which CSS file?
• metadata for plugins @ openajax

(C) node.js

• and Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, Java syntax highlighting

PHP/mod_orion/(I)easy server install

• dmg for Mac, orion.exe?
• easy to parameterize (ports, links to server files)

Testing

• (C) Jasmine/QUnit/DOH/JSUnit/JSTestDriver - unit testing stuff
• (P)Selenium - UI testing
• (I) Being able to get to the source quickly from a test result

Debug integration

• (I) Firebug
• WebKit inspector