Re: New Site?
Re: New Site?
- Subject: Re: New Site?
- From: François Frisch <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:48:44 -0700
Have a look at cocoadev.com > Glossary > AppKit
It's not moderated but it's very easy to add things. Give it a try.
It's searchable within the site and with google.
It has whatever structure you give it.
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I would be interested in running such a thing. I have a fair bit of
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experience with putting together boards like this, and would be interested
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in doing this should people feel this is worthwhile.
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So let's move forward based on the assumption that this is worthwhile. Here
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are some of my ideas for the subject:
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1. It must be searchable.
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2. It must be moderatable by a series of trusted users.
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3. It must be organized:
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- possible structure:
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- Split sections by: Text Handling, Graphics Handling, UI, Networking
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etc. (people please feel free to supply more LOGICAL ideas of sections to
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add)
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- Split by API: While this would be great, i see this as leading to too
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many sections, and threfore unusable. Also, many topics cross through
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multiple API's, and as such, not very useful.
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- Split by ???
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- each section would have a moderator who genuinely knows (and hopefully
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cares about this part of it)
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4. A tutorials section - currently I am working on this anyway. An earlier
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thread in this mailing list mentioned quicktiming movies. I am considering
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taking this a step further and using applescript/quicktime to dynamically
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show you how to do things. Of course, being the novice that I am, it would
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at first deal with simple topics, but stuff that we all use and need to
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know.
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5. API Tree - The tree that i mentioned earlier in this "Docs" thread. This
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would be a very useful part of the site.
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Any other suggestions.ideas please let me know. Also, any of you who would
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be willing to volunteer to help with this would be greatly appreciated.
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searle
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email@hidden
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www.sketchwork.com
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-----Original Message-----
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From: email@hidden
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[mailto:email@hidden]On Behalf Of Bertrand Mansion
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Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 10:29 AM
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To: email@hidden
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Subject: Re: Docs
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Hi,
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There is a possible solution, it would be to make your own documentation,
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inspired by Apple documentation. Actually, when I am not fully satisfied by
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something, I look for a way to improve it.
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For example, one could make a website with all Apple classes and methods and
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create an infrastructure so that users, developers, contributors, could drop
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notes and examples related to each of them. It is what they made for PHP
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(http://www.php.net) and it works very well. Within a few months, it would
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become a great resource for developers.
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The only problems I see (which are big ones...) is to follow as closely as
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possible Apple documentation and be aware when it is changed. And I don't
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know if Apple would enjoy this initiative.
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Anyway, this is direction I feel could be interesting.
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According to the book Learning Cocoa, I agree with people who says it is bad
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(I unfortunately bought it too and it didn't help me at all).
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Bertrand Mansion
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Mamasam
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