On Dec 17, 2007, at 12:22 PM, Jon Miller wrote:
> > On Dec 17, 2007 3:30 PM, John David Anderson (_psychic_) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm also tiring of people crying about the docs. Right now, we have >> 170 completely rewritten printed pages of documentation for code that >> isn't even BETA. > > I've been struggling with Cake and yesterday found the tempdocs for > 1.2 and it was like a lightbulb - they're brilliant, even if > incomplete. Unlike the dreadfully sparse manual or API, they give real > examples, just like the PHP.net docs. Comments like that are what allows me to keep working on the docs. Thanks. Yes, it's a complete rewrite with more emphasis on the high-level and with more examples. It's incomplete, but that's not so bad for pre- beta docs. We're closing in on things though. Please contact me if you'd like to help out. > Unfortunately the existence of the docs is a bit of a secret. Despite > having a big link to download 1.2 on the Cake homepage, there's no > obvious link to the new docs on the Cake homepage, just to the old > Cake manual. Sure it may not look as flashy, but if it has the info, > who cares? It makes me wonder how many newbies are struggling just > because they don't even know a secret new manual exists? In my view > hiding the good docs away could really hurt takeup now that most > people will be jumping straight to 1.2 True. I've added the link to the default CakePHP home.ctp - I hesitate to link to it too much because of it's temporary nature, but it's no secret (we've linked to it in announcements, etc.). Tell your friends. :) -- John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
