[cgiapp] what i'd like to be doing: rubric updates

[Ricardo SIGNES <suppressed>]

I thought I'd drop the list a line (or two or three) with the stuff I want to
do soon, since it might be interesting, might inspire some people to help, and
might just help me get my thoughts together.

Rubric is an application I wrote some years ago, for storing tagged bookmarks
and notes.  I use it for both bookmarks and my journal:

  http://rjbs.manxome.org/

I'd like to do some big overhauling of Rubric.  I wrote Rubric before
CGI::Application had much in the ::Plugin namespace, and I'm sure I could
simplify it a lot.  There's not much reason to have my own authentication crap,
and I think the Rubric::Renderer is sort of an albatross (although a cool one).

I'd like to redo the ORM code to use RDBO instead of CDBI for speed,
portability, and extensibility.

I'd like to add some liberal use of jQuery.  When I was last doing a lot of
work on Rubric, there weren't any JS libraries that tickled my fancy, and the
features I did want (like autocomplete) didn't really work at all in OmniWeb,
my browser of choice.  These days, jQuery exists, OmniWeb is better supported,
and I'm using Firefox anyway.

I have some ideas for features I want to add, too, like tag stacks that let you
drag entries into a pile that automatically tags them with something.  The pile
can then be expanded into a view, and things can be dragged out of it.  I want
to use this for implementing a 'to read' queue, for example.

See also my forthcoming post about authentication and users.

-- 
rjbs

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