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Catching up with geek talk and @farcry developments: Varnish caching for noobswp.me/p20hGW-kx / cc @modius

— erietta (@erietta) December 22, 2011

Now we have 1 single cache which does both objects and html snippets and it dynamically resizes itself depending on what’s going..

The "tray" that appears at the bottom of the website when you are logged in, contains a marvellous developer utility called the "Webskin Tracer". You can activate it for any page by simply selecting the webskin tracer option. The entire page's composite of views is laid bare; highlighting each webskin executed for the page. Select a specific view and the HTML fragment is highlighted, with a tooltip detailing exactly where the webskin template can be found.

You can turn on the webskin tracer without being logged in by using your project's "secret key" on the URL: 
http://localhost:8888/index.cfm?objectid=E689D721-B6C9-605B-DE1D813E4CDA3339&tracewebskins=secretkey

The FarCry framework is based on a variation of the classic Model-View-Controller pattern. The COAPI (or Content Object API) is a high level name for the MVC engine inside FarCry. Without getting bogged down in the details of the framework, its good to have a high level or "helicopter" view of how things work under the hood. We expand on these themes gradually as you go through the FarCry developer course.

Requests from users are processed by FarCry's built-in "smart controller" which automatically determines wiring based on the URL convention or the friendly URL sub-system. The COAPI always ends up calling a principal content type (a special type of class) that manages how we interact with the model and view. When thinking of views (or webskins) its important to realise that they are always executed in the context of a specific content type.

It's not at all important for developers to understand how the COAPI works, but hey, for those that want the details we're adding some advanced info boxes to the course where relevant. If you have more specific questions let me know -- always looking at ways to make the developer documentation clearer.

Just a quick heads up that the Fandango source is up and available:

Click here to download:

farcry6-cheat-sheet.pdf (1.81 MB)

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Click here to download:

farcry6-cheat-sheet.pdf (1.81 MB)

Blair and the Daemonite team have rustled up a simple two page "cheat sheet" for FarCry developers, highlighting commonly used tags, functions and decorators. It's only a first stab, so let us know what's missing and what you might find useful.