diff -r 08c66a83c3ca -r d9f5fd1879fc doc/book/en/intro/foundations/index.rst --- a/doc/book/en/intro/foundations/index.rst Mon Jun 29 16:09:08 2009 +0200 +++ /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 @@ -1,33 +0,0 @@ -.. -*- coding: utf-8 -*- - -`CubicWeb` Foundations -====================== - -A little history... -------------------- - -`CubicWeb` is a web application framework developped by Logilab_ since 2001. - -Entirely written in Python, `CubicWeb` publishes data from all sorts -of sources such as SQL database, LDAP directory and versioning system such -as subversion. - -`CubicWeb` user interface was designed to let the final user a huge flexibility -on how to select and how to display content. It allows to browse the knowledge -database and to display the results with the best rendering according to -the context. -This interface flexibility gives back the user the control of the -rendering parameters that are usually reserved for developpers. - - -We can list a couple of web applications developped with `CubicWeb`, an online -public phone directory (see http://www.118000.fr/), a system for managing -digital studies and simulations for a research lab, a tool for shared children -babysitting (see http://garde-partagee.atoukontact.fr/), a tool to manage -software developpment (see http://www.logilab.org), an application for -managing museums collections (see -http://collections.musees-haute-normandie.fr/collections/), etc. - -In 2008, `CubicWeb` was ported for a new type of source : the datastore -from `GoogleAppEngine`_. -