Re: [documentation-dev] doc.oo.o website updated

2007-10-05 Thread Drew Jensen
Frank Peters wrote: Hi, I updated the main project page on doc.oo.o to have more links pointing to the wiki and putting even more focus on the user. I added some Google coop searches to workaround the sh*tty collabnet search. The ultimate goal would be to have the main access through the wiki

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Mid-level base tutorial

2007-10-11 Thread Drew Jensen
Hi Mariano Sorry for being slow on getting back. I gave a complete reading and it looks pretty good, I would like to read it one more time. I just got busy with another endeavor that pulled a lot of my time away. But I didn't see anything in the first pass that jumped out and said NOPE that

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Mid-level base tutorial

2007-10-19 Thread Drew Jensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew: I am happy to announce that I have finished the explanation on data modeling. This is the part where I take a real life example and apply the concepts described in points 1 and 2 in order to achieve the design of a working database. I am sending you this. I

Re: [documentation-dev] Mid level Base tutorial

2008-01-29 Thread Drew Jensen
Mariano Casanova wrote: Hi Drew, nice to hear from you. I am very excited about ending this job and being able to coordinate with you. Please let me know if you still have the forms and reports for the example or if you need them again. I think that they pretty much help delineated the end

Re: [documentation-dev] Trying out some ideas for reworking the main Documentation Wiki page

2008-12-06 Thread Drew Jensen
Clayton wrote: Considerably more user friendly approach. Let them pick the general areas of the documentation they want and drill down, no more clutter right on the landing page to have to sift through. I also think that it'll help with organization and maintenance on our end as well. I

[documentation-dev] OpenOffice.org booth at ALA-2010

2010-02-14 Thread Drew Jensen
if folks wanting to reply do so - via the marketing mailing list - a comment on the wiki page (above) - or a note on the irc channel Thanks so much for you time, Drew Jensen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-24 Thread Drew Jensen
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Template:AddThis and can be inserted into a page using {{AddThis}} and the button will show up at the point where the Template call is added. Excellent! - To unsubscribe,

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-24 Thread Drew Jensen
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Template:AddThis ...and one lttle nit-picky thing..(you know there was going to be one of those with me..right) The Oracle logo...well, just look for yourself http://www.facebook.com/dj.son.of.gus I shared a wiki page and let it display the

Re: [documentation-dev] Base mid level tutorial posted

2010-08-13 Thread Drew Jensen
On 08/12/2010 08:31 PM, mcasan...@instituto-hispano.org wrote: Dear community: Please note that the completed Mid-level Base Tutorial has been posted. You can find it at: http://documentation.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=778expandFolder=778folderID=778 Please consider

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback by Drew Jensen for Base Tutorial

2010-08-14 Thread Drew Jensen
On 08/14/2010 01:28 AM, mcasan...@instituto-hispano.org wrote: Hi Drew, and thank you for sending me feedback. I really appreciate this. I did notice the slanted quote signs and how text with them would sometimes throw an error when I try to run it as a query. This did bother me too, a lot,

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback by Drew Jensen for Base Tutorial

2010-08-19 Thread Drew Jensen
On 08/14/2010 05:36 PM, mcasan...@instituto-hispano.org wrote: Thank you Drew. I am very interested in knowing what you think about the aggregate functions section. Please note that I have reviewed and corrected all SQL code that had slanted quotation marks. In doing so I also found some typos

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback for Base Tutorial

2010-08-20 Thread Drew Jensen
Hi, Went over Section 1 this morning. One small typo - 1st paragraph on page 28 spouses of a person, and unsigned byte , the 'and' 'an'. The chapter on normalization is excellent. The chapter on data types I really want to go over again, I felt a bit uneasy with one of two items.

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback for Base Tutorial

2010-08-21 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy Mariano, Went through Section 2 this morning. Nice job again on the data modeling section, that can be tricky stuff and you handle it IMO quite well. OK, one small typo. Page 66, 1st line. This form is built This report is built As for the joins I'll get something together and off

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback for Base Tutorial

2010-08-24 Thread Drew Jensen
On 08/24/2010 07:20 PM, Buck Deadrich wrote: Don't know why I am receiving this. It has no bearing on me. --- On Fri, 8/20/10, Drew Jensendrewjensen.in...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Buck, Well, do you mean - How did you get on a mailing list? or How is this relevant to this mailing list?

[documentation-dev] Today's word is Idiot

2010-08-28 Thread Drew Jensen
Hi, Well, it seems that a very long time ago I created a problem - with my email accounts and registrations with some ooo mailing lists. Specifically with the authors list. Just checked and it seems that for a while now I've been sending email to that list under the wrong account - again.

Re: [documentation-dev] Today's word is Idiot

2010-08-28 Thread Drew Jensen
On 08/28/2010 10:47 PM, Jean Weber wrote: On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com wrote: Well, it seems that a very long time ago I created a problem - with my email accounts and registrations with some ooo mailing lists. Specifically with the authors list

Re: [documentation-dev] Today's word is Idiot

2010-08-28 Thread Drew Jensen
Can I ask another question - shouldn't the list server be bouncing my emails back to me? The user list does, but no other list I'm subscribed to at openoffice does, so I just assume they go through and it seems here that was a problem - no doubt of my making somehow. Drew The Authors and

Re: [documentation-dev] Today's word is Idiot

2010-08-28 Thread Drew Jensen
I think that I wasn't clear - I don't mean a bounced message when It fails to post to the list - I mean a normal message. For instance I just sent a response to a question at user list and in a minute it will come back to me, in my inbox, from the mail list. When I send to any other list at

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback for Base Tutorial

2010-08-29 Thread Drew Jensen
On 08/26/2010 02:41 PM, Joe Smith wrote: [ Sorry, I'm jumping into the middle of a thread here. I don't have the original message to reply to. ] Mariano, As a frustrated beginner with Base, I've been eagerly awaiting a draft of your tutorial. Now that it's here, I can say it was definitely

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback for Base Tutorial

2010-08-29 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy, Inner and outer joins. Actually there is a good example for an outer join with doctors and patients. Patients have a relationship with Doctors, yes. Suppose I want to list all the doctors and all the patients assigned to each. If you do an inner join between two table it returns

Re: [documentation-dev] Outer join example

2010-08-31 Thread Drew Jensen
On 08/31/2010 04:49 PM, mcasan...@instituto-hispano.org wrote: Thank you Drew for the information. This is consistent with my recent research. I would like to confirm with you that the query you sent uses the syntax understood by Base/HSQL To get both docotors and the patient into a result

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: Feedback for Base Tutorial

2010-08-31 Thread Drew Jensen
On 08/31/2010 07:45 PM, Joe Smith wrote: On 08/31/2010 04:38 PM, mcasan...@instituto-hispano.org wrote: Thank you all for the input in proofreading the tutorial Glad it's helpful; I'm enjoying going through it! I can see that you've spent a lot of effort to make things clear, and it

Re: [documentation-dev] Feedback for Base Tutorial -Data set

2010-09-02 Thread Drew Jensen
On 09/01/2010 11:48 PM, mcasan...@instituto-hispano.org wrote: Drew, Joe: Having a data set available for Chapter 10 sounds like a very good idea. I particularly like the option of providing a separate text file with the insert statements to load through the SQL window, as this gives

Re: [documentation-dev] Publishing final version of Base Tutorial

2010-09-21 Thread Drew Jensen
On 09/21/2010 10:43 PM, Joe Smith wrote: On 09/21/2010 08:43 AM, mcasan...@instituto-hispano.org wrote: Drew, Joe: I am about to publish the latest edition of the Base Tutorial. This version corrects all the errata identified so far (thanks Joe for your contributions) and adds a section on

Re: [documentation-dev] Base tutorial and the new reality

2010-10-06 Thread Drew Jensen
On 10/06/2010 04:59 PM, Joe Smith wrote: On 10/06/2010 02:43 PM, mcasan...@instituto-hispano.org wrote: ... The only thing missing is a reference to loading the collection of data to play with in chapter 10, which Drew and Joe had proposed. I would like to know if the set offered by Joe is