This document discusses the goals and challenges of creating a personal management web application called P3. It aims to provide a centralized space for managing and sharing information with a desktop-like experience. The application will use a widget-based architecture inspired by services like Netvibes, Google Reader, and iGoogle. Two potential technology platforms are considered: CakePHP with jQuery, which would be easier due to the author's experience, or Cappuccino, which could better recreate a desktop experience but would require more new learning.

1. P3 - Personal Management
Part of the awesome SAPO Campus project

2. The Challenge?
• To create a personal space for managing
and consuming information
• Promote a spirit of community and sharing
• A web application that offers a desktop-
class experience

3. But how?
• Through a flexible, easily expandable and
user-friendly platform
• With a widget-based architecture, easy to
build and add to the application

4. Inspiration - Netvibes

5. Inspiration - Google Reader

6. Inspiration - iGoogle

7. What about the technology?
Two platforms to consider:

8. +
CakePHP + jQuery

9. CakePHP
• Uses the MVC design-pattern
• A technology already grasped by the author
• More oriented to building traditional or
hybrid web apps

10. jQuery
• Most used Javascript framework
• Total separation between content and
behavior (like CSS)
• Plugin-based architecture and lots of
documentation to go around

11. Cappuccino

12. Cappuccino
• Application Framework based on Cocoa,
but written in Javascript (Objective-J)
• Designed for building web apps that behave
like desktop apps
• No previous experience by the author
makes it a risky solution

13. Cappucino powers 280slides.com

14. Any doubts?
Come on, leave me a comment!