Re: Website frustrations for newbie

From: Kieran Kelleher (kieran_list..ac.com)
Date: Wed Sep 13 2006 - 10:57:05 EDT

  • Next message: Andrus Adamchik: "Re: Website frustrations for newbie"

    Please throw a couple of paragraphs into the Tutorials wiki so the
    rest of us can benefit from your pain!

    Regards, Kieran

    On Sep 13, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Paul Charles Leddy wrote:

    > The new site doesn't really seem to have the basic information someone
    > like me would need to get going. Here are some suggestions, my only
    > focus being WOProject, not WOLips:
    >
    > - a very basic introduction paragraph defining ant tasks
    > - how WOProject adds ant task extensions with just an addition of
    > the jar to ant's lib directory
    > - that this helps WebObject developers use ant to compile WOApps and
    > WOFrameworks, including on the command-line, without having to use
    > XCode
    > - how this is a common need for automated builds on large projects
    > since Apple has a broken compiler that fails for dependencies when
    > munging a large number of files
    > - the basic WOProject extensions page on the old site copied to the
    > new
    > - a link on the new site to the API for these extensions to ant tasks
    >
    > I didn't "get it" until I bought the O'Reilly book, read about tasks
    > and then went back to the site. One or two paragraphs would have
    > clarified what I learned in O'Reilly.
    >
    > Thanks for the awesome tools!



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0.0 : Wed Sep 13 2006 - 10:57:10 EDT