On Wednesday, Aug 13, 2003, at 22:35 US/Pacific, Mike Kear wrote:
> Hal put a new version of Mach-II on the site Mach-II.com last night

Yup, 1.0.1, fixes the non-US date format issue.

> Now I want to know more about how this whole thing works.

Keep watching http://www.mach-ii.com/ and (shameless plug):
        http://www.corfield.org/machii/
(I created a shortcut URL!)

> I get the impression that working in the Mach-II environment is going 
> to
> require a knowledge of object-oriented programming terminology that I 
> don't
> have.  Is that right?

Understanding basic OO will help. Understanding MVC will also help. 
Does this page help at all:
        http://www.corfield.org/machii/concepts/
(another shortcut URL!)

> If I want to become adept at using
> Mach-ii am I going to have to learn about OO Programming?

Yes, but you can start gently. If you're writing CFCs, you're halfway 
there. Mach II expects the bulk of the logic in your application to be 
in CFCs but the display part is still just .cfm pages (much like 
Fusebox's display fuses).

> I can see that amongst the disciplines I'm going to have to know well 
> are
> XML, but I need to learn more about that anyway.  Anything else?

Well, there's a minimal amount of XML you'll need in order to 
understand the Mach II configuration file but it's pretty 
straightforward (especially now Hal and Ben have provided a PDF 
"configuration guide"!).

Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/

"If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive."
-- Margaret Atwood

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