Hi all, I just installed FarCry 5.0 and am about to start looking at how FourQ works. This is going to be included in an upcoming article about ORM tools for FAQU. Actually it's a follow-up because I already wrote an introductory ORM article that was a bit rushed. This article is going to show side-by-side comparisons of the various ORM tools that I was only able to mention in the previous article.
I was actually just about to post a blog about a couple of things with regard to getting started and then decided rather than blog about it that I would post it here. Some of you may already know that I have Asperger Syndrome and so my social skills are often not the most spectacular. ;) And since I was experiencing a bit of frustration with my new FarCry install I decided that rather than keep with my habit of sharing my frustrations directly with the broader community, I would try and see if I can work on those people skills and instead bring my frustrations here. As of yet my frustration isn't about learning to work with FarCry as a development platform. I got my first "testproject" installed and looked at some of the webtop tools and then had to leave it and come back. When I came back I was surprised to find that my FarCry installation was telling me that I still didn't have a project. I thought this was odd, so I did a quick search and came up with this thread on the beta list: http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-beta/browse_thread/thread/399c81eef400b7dc Thanks for the info on initializing the project, Geoff. That was helpful. I do agree with Matt, that its probably a good idea to revise that message to say something about "if you know that you've already created a project, you may need to initialize it..." This also lead to another frustration for me. The thread didn't mention where that subdirectory project would be located (and I didn't remember). My first instinct was that it would be within the FarCry directory. I realize that's likely not the first instinct of a lot of programmers who are familiar with frameworks like Mach-II where the framework is installed in a directory separate from the project skeleton. So then I looked and saw that it had created it in my apache htdocs directory. There's a good chance I'm really alone here, but this was a big turn off for me. I don't think it's the fact that it's in the htdocs directory that's the turn-off, because I have installations of other frameworks that are set up similarly. It's more that I don't recall the installer telling me it was going to put it there. Maybe it did and for whatever reason I didn't notice, but it just didn't seem transparent to me when I was installing it that it was going to go in my htdocs directory. And for what it's worth, if the installer is going to be creating files outside the framework directory, I'd like there to be more transparency -- for it to say "hey, we'd like to create files in c:\apache\htdocs\[project] if that's okay" and give me the option to change that. If I just missed it in the installer, then I'll go back and have another look. And I may offer a suggestion or two to help make it more transparent. Thanks ike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "farcry-dev" 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/farcry-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
