Re: Getting Started With WO site
Re: Getting Started With WO site
- Subject: Re: Getting Started With WO site
- From: Janine Sisk <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:40:44 -0700
I have been thinking sort of along the same lines. I have received
several requests this week to put my tutorial up where other people
can edit it, but due to some bad experiences in the past (not with
anyone here) I get hives just thinking about allowing open editing.
So my thought was to set up a blog specifically for my tutorial, where
people could post comments, point out mistakes and suggest future
topics. This would also allow me to announce updates to all
interested parties without spamming everyone on these lists.
I've taken the opposite approach as David on tutorials - Mine is long
on words and code, with no screenshots at all. That's partly due to
time constraints and I might eventually put some in, but I think there
is room for both styles. Some people are verbal learners, others are
visual.
I think David's idea is a great one, and I hope this can become the
central repository of links to WO-related content. Things are a
little confusing right how - people talk about "the wiki" and you
always have to ask "which one"? That probably won't change, but
having one place to send people for links to everything else would be
very helpful.
janine
PS some people have asked me where to find my tutorial, so here's a
shameless plug. The downloads are linked from http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WOCOM/WO+Resources+and+Ideas
.
On Jun 13, 2007, at 11:29 PM, David LeBer wrote:
Hey all,
For those of you who are not attending WWDC, there has been a lively
discussion about many things WO. Motivated by this I whipped
together a WO Getting Started page <http://gettingstartedwithwo.codeferous.com/
> and I'd like to get your feedback.
This is just a baby step, but please let me know if you think I'm
heading in the right direction.
This the first of what I hope will be a trio of sites:
I would like to create a general WO news blog (with multiple core
contributers) so there is a central clearing house for news of
interest to the WO community (new features in Wonder or WOLips,
announcements from Apple, significant additions to the wikkibook,
good blog posts, etc).
I would also like to create a tutorial blog where short clear
graphical task-oriented tutorials could be posted - I have some
ideas of how I'd want these tutorials to be presented, but I still
have to work out the style guidelines (I'm thinking: short on text,
long on screenshots or maybe screencasts).
I approach this with some trepidation - because someone seems to try
and do something like this once a year - but my goal is to present
unified (a dare I say) inviting front to new developers to the
WebObjects platform. We have a ton of outstanding material in the
various wikis and lists, and I have no interest in replacing that,
but I'd like to give new users a way to find and make sense of what
is there.
Again, feedback (and offers of assistance) is welcome and appreciated.
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;david
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