QL Stuff

For those who are interested in Querki, but not following the Project Journal: I've just finished up a series of posts over the past six weeks, describing QL -- the relatively simple "language" you use to display queries in Querki -- and the concepts around it.

The posts aren't very polished, and do get into some technical details, so I suspect that only the programmers are going to be interested in reading the whole thing. But if you'd like to get a first-draft of sense of how you pull Querki together, here's the series:

• The Querki Data Model: the critical discussion of how Querki *thinks*, which is important for understanding the rest.


• Querki Explorer: the UI that is planned for the long term, which motivates a bunch of language decisions.


• The Beginnings of QL: an introduction to the very basics of the language, but also some digging into how it works.


• Expressions, Phrases and Stages: getting into the nuts and bolts of the syntax.


• Text Stages: how you take a query and make it look nice.


• Let's Build a Character Sheet: a quick but fairly real example of starting to build a Space in Querki.

It's a *long* series -- each of those posts is pretty in-depth -- but it starts to get across the notion of what's what. Those who aren't interested in technical details might want to just read the first and last entries -- while the rest explain *why* it works, the example gives you a sense of what you actually do in practice.