Ramsey Gurley does a great job of explaining the D2W rules system (and why Project Wonder is invaluable) in this article on the wiki.
A highly recommended read.
Direct To Web Rules Explained
Jun 22, ’09
11:59 AM
Screencast: Using ERExcelLook
Jun 18, ’09
10:39 PM
Project Wonder’s ERExcelLook is a framework that leverages Direct To Web and the ExcelGenerator framework to easily generate Excel exports. I just finished a short screencast on adding it to an existing project. The topics covered are:
Adding Direct To Web to an existing project
Adding and action to trigger an .xls export for an array of [...]
Advanced track at WOWODC 2009 East?
Jun 17, ’09
3:02 PM
WOWDC 2009 West (held just before WWDC) was an outstanding success (and I’m not just saying that because I presented ) We had a gathering of very knowledgeable and talented WO developers and the conversation over dinners and breaks was as illuminating and educational as the sessions themselves.
Pascal is working feverishly on hammering [...]
Alternate D2W Looks
Jun 17, ’09
12:19 PM
A Direct To Web Look is a set of templates for the common task pages that defines the look and feel of the application. In the bad old days the templates were heavily table based and many of your rules would end up setting display parameters (like table cell background colour etc.)
Thankfully this is changing. [...]
Direct To Web
Jun 7, ’09
9:42 PM
At WOWODC this weekend I gave a talk on Direct To Web that spurred a lot of interest which I was thrilled to see.
Getting started with D2W is not an easy task and I owe a massive debt to the two chapters in the Wrox book: Professional WebObjects 5.0 with Java which is sadly out [...]