links to this page:    Squeak Mailing Lists SmallWiki Hannes Hirzel Seaside How do I edit the Pier screen layout Documentation Prefix Registry PRPierFrame Swiki Page List Matthew Fulmer Swiki short page list KernelImage PRKernel How to construct a Pier kernel PRPage PRStructure

• Pier is the name of a Content Management System and wiki implemented on top of Seaside and Magritte.
• It is a fully-edged application and content management framework.
• It is a kind of "version 2" of SmallWiki.

Home page

• http://www.piercms.com/
• Lukas Renggli's Pier Page

Code repository

• http://source.lukas-renggli.ch

Mailing list

The design

• http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Archive/Reports/Reng07c.pdf (3 pages)
• Chapter 3 of Lukas's Masters Thesis is all about the design of Pier:Magritte – Meta-Described Web Application Development (Detailed)
• The model is an instance of a PRKernel object which holds PRPage objects.

Some hints

• It is recommended to start with the one-click installation from the download section of http://www.piercms.com/
• An idiot's guide to pier(Only a few hints for starting to configure Pier from the mailing list)
• Getting started with Pier(from the mailing list as well)
• Good entry point to start reading the code: PRKernel and PRPierFrame
• How do I edit the Pier screen layout?

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