Re: WOLips Documentation

From: Dustin Withers (dusti..riffintechnology.com)
Date: Sun Aug 27 2006 - 23:13:37 EDT

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    So ummmm...hmmm...how do I register to add things to the confluence
    wiki? ;) I've clicked all the links but I know I'm just missing
    something simple.

    Thanks,
    -dustin

    On Aug 27, 2006, at 8:43 PM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:

    > 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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