Dustin,
"Strike while the iron is hot", in other words while you are
motivated to do it, then do a short tutorial right now.... and
another tomorrow, and another next week, .... and so on. Just get
your confluence id and password (takes 60 seconds to register if you
have not already), log in and put your knowledge on the wiki. Forget
wasting 3 months planning what tutorials to do. Just transcribe your
knowledge/experience in there as you learn so all us Eclipse/WOLips
newbies can get to work productively with Eclipse now.
http://www.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WOL/Tutorials
Believe me your work *WILL* be much appreciated ...... and the best
thing is that your tutorials can be corrected/revised by the
community as WO and WOLips are revised in the future if necessary. I
got further in 15 minutes using Mike Schrag's getting started
tutorials than I did in a whole day of mucking around with Eclipse
and giving up 2 years ago.
Also, there is nothing wrong with taking the general topics (chapter
names) in the WO Docs as a guide for what kinds of tutorial topics
would be useful information. "Creating Projects", "Creating
Enterprise Objects", etc. are not exactly intellectual
property ........ just cover the topics in your own words on how you
would do the same tasks in Eclipse. Mike Schrag has already started
some tutorials, let's keep adding to this repository of knowledge.
Off the top of my head, there is stuff I am trying to figure out as
an Eclipse/WOLips newbie and I wish there were tutorials so I could
get switched over faster and get to work (I have to be productive so
I can put food on the table!). Now whether someone documents this
stuff or not, I'll figure it out eventually .... and if no-one does
document it, then I'll certainly be the first to document what I
learn on the wiki, for the benefit of mself and other WoLips newbie
brains. However the more newbies that start documenting in the wiki,
the faster we all get up the learning curve.
Anyway, Dustin .... I, for one, would certainly appreciate you
dumping knowledge into the WOLips Tutorials wiki.
Regards, Kieran
On Aug 27, 2006, at 12:57 PM, Dustin Withers wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I'm not much for writing documentation but there is quite a big
> thread over in WebObjects Dev about the lack of Apple docs for
> WOLips. So I was wondering if it would be possible for me to take
> Apples beginning WebObjects docs (ex. http://developer.apple.com/
> documentation/WebObjects/Web_Applications/index.html )
> and re-write them for WOLips. I would be completely copying
> Apples docs for the most part so I don't know if it would be
> legal. Also I would be doing it for the WOLips project and posting
> it to the WOLips wiki so I don't know if it would cause problems
> for the project. I'd like to do this for the Open WebObjects
> movement and for myself to learn.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> -dustin
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