Re: WOLips Documentation

From: Dustin Withers (dusti..riffintechnology.com)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2006 - 10:40:17 EDT

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    Cool...thanks. Got that setup. Hopefully this weekend I'll have
    time to post some of my trials and tribulations...

    -dustin

    On Aug 28, 2006, at 1:22 AM, womai..ac.com wrote:

    > Go to http://www.objectstyle.org/jira and sign up for a Jira
    > account. Once you are logged in you will also be able to write to
    > the wiki.
    >
    > janine
    >
    > On Aug 27, 2006, at 8:13 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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