Re: WebObjects vs. Microsoft's .NET
Re: WebObjects vs. Microsoft's .NET
- Subject: Re: WebObjects vs. Microsoft's .NET
- From: Ray Ackland <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 11:41:39 +1200
Hello Goodbye,
Perhaps I am more qualified than most on this mailing list to know how
it feels to be getting started - I am not much further down the line
than you. And hopefully the other posters haven't been too intolerant
about someone "criticising" their baby.
I have been trying to get into WO from just before Christmas. It has
been one frustrating nightmare. The documentation was good for getting
you to build the example projects, but like cutting a path through a
canyon, if you wanted to stray from that into your own project it was a
huge uphill battle (the PDF only docs make things seem worse too).
Trying to break out of the path that had been cut for me involved
repeated experimentation of different combinations of settings and
methods. And then all of a sudden the right combination would occur and
I'd think "that's kind of obvious". I used to think how bad the
documentation was - even though there was so much of it. Now I realise
that it seems to cover two levels - the beginners (with the example
projects) and the advanced (all the API reference material).
For me the manuals have been a road map, but this discussion group has
been the guides. WO is just too complex to have documentation explain
all the combinations that are possible. Other people to give you
guidance is an invaluable asset.
Hope you keep at it and start building your own trails. Who knows, in a
year's time other PC users may be coming to you for guidance on what
exactly is WO good for!
Best of luck.
Second, the documentation that Apple provides sucks big time!
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