Re: WOLips Documentation

From: Brendan Duddridge (brenda..lickspace.com)
Date: Sun Aug 27 2006 - 23:57:50 EDT

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    Maybe there's a tutorial somewhere? ;-)

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    On Aug 27, 2006, at 9:13 PM, Dustin Withers wrote:

    > 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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