On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:23 PM, David Coll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't see exactly where is the problem with that wiki. In fact, I've > made a wiki myself to help me think throught some process that weren't > correctly described here and there when the book was still just a > thought. I wish I could write something in the book, but I don't feel > my experience with Cake is anoff to write something tagged "official", > and probably many others out there.
Stop. Right. There. You don't have to have tons of experience with Cake to write something that goes into the cookbook. It's not a BOOK, it's simply a wiki of a different kind. Don't let your lack of experience stop you from contributing. > Writing into a wiki or "the book" are two different tasks. One is > ludic, the effort for parcipating into the redaction can be seemless > and the other has an inbound "professionnal objective", it is "the" > book. > There is no "professional objective" to the cookbook. It is simply meant to be a user-contributed manual for CakePHP. Submissions are checked for accuracy and relevancy, nothing more. > Wikis have became sandbox over the time and are excellent tools at it. > While the book is meant to be [someday] a finished documentation, the > implication needed to add something to it is 10 time superior to a > wiki. It's the same as a learning curve, wikis are now on the bottom > left of the "learning to write on the web" and that kind of book is on > the top right. Even experienced programmer need to get confidence > before writing somewhere else then into the DocBlocks. Where is the idea that the cookbook is going to become a real book coming from? I am not under any such impression. The manual will NEVER be done because things in Cake will change, new techniques will come to the forefront and new examples will be created. Man, a lot of misinformation is out there. -- Chris Hartjes Internet Loudmouth Motto for 2008: "Moving from herding elephants to handling snakes..." @TheKeyBoard: http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
