Re: Getting Started With WO site
Re: Getting Started With WO site
- Subject: Re: Getting Started With WO site
- From: Dana Kashubeck <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:10:02 -0400
- Organization: Riemer Reporting Service, Inc.
On 6/14/07 11:57 AM, Steven Mark McCraw wrote:
My understanding is that the webobjects wiki book
(http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:WebObjects) is trying to
become the central point of documentation for WebObjects that people
post to. There's already a ton of info there, but we all know it could
use a ton more. At WOWODC, when the experts panel was asked what could
be done to help with project wonder, this is what they came back with
immediately: We need people writing documentation, and this is the
place to put it. Even if it's bad, there are so many people watching it
that bad info will get edited out quickly.
I think there's a danger in having TOO many informational sites. If
everybody decides to wing it because they get on a high at a developer's
conference regarding being able to document stuff to widen the movement,
I think we will end up with dozens of blogs, half finished tutorials,
etc. There's a reason there isn't much documentation on Wonder and
WebObjects: writing good documentation is HARD and time consuming, and
not a very glamorous task. So if you have 10 spare hours to write a
decent article on a very specific issue, I think everybody would be
better served if that went to the wikibook. That way, everybody can
always point to one resource as definitive.
I don't mean to be preachy about it or rain on anybody's parade that is
putting up yet another site about WebObjects. What I just wrote might
sound snappy or mean, but I don't mean it that way. I'm just trying to
advocate a central repository for everything so people don't have to go
here and there to get various pieces of the overall puzzle. Maybe if
you start a site, you could also make sure that all of the contents of
that site are also posted in the wiki book in the sensible place?
Thoughts?
I was thinking the same thing. Last year there were some really great
efforts to put together "the site" for WebObjects information. I think
it was this one: http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WOCOM/WOCOM
So there's that wiki, the wiki book, www.wocommunity.org, etc., etc. I
completely agree that there is a huge need for documentation and
resources and it is important for the community to put these things
together. But right now everything just seems *so* scattered! Can
those who have been generous enough with their time please post their
content on one of the already existing sites?
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Dana Kashubeck
Systems Manager
Riemer Reporting Service Inc.
http://www.riemer.com
Phone: 440-835-2477 x. 125
Fax: 440-835-4594
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