AJ Ferrigno said the following on 03/29/2011 08:29 AM: > The dashboard is pretty indispensable to our group - it saves us a lot > of headaches manually refreshing cached files, and I look forward to > any and all enhancements in that area. I may even donate some time to > that area to address some of our minor complaints, if I can find that > time. We'd love to improve the dashboard for everybody so your constructive suggestions about the dashboard are welcome. I hope you do find the time to donate back to the project. Everybody on Team Mach-II is grateful for time spent on improving the framework.
<soapbox> The dashboard is probably the easiest place for any developer working with Mach-II to help out and donate time for improvements and new features. The reason why it is easy is because the dashboard is an application. Not abstract handling / parsing code like the core part of the framework is. A lot less time spent familiarizing yourself if the code base. So if you are the fence about contributing, don't be scared -- decide to help out and give us a shout. Somebody from the team can help you find things, give advice, help architect new features and look over contributions. If you want to become a better programmer, contributing to open source is the best thing you can do for your career. You'll never have a job where you have this many eyes and points of view looking over code to make it the best it can be. Personally, I've learned more from open source contributions than anywhere else because you never get feedback like this. You also learn to not feel bad if somebody ripes your code apart -- the learning is what counts and it's part of the process. We don't bite. Become a contributor today; not tomorrow because there is always another tomorrow and another and another leading you down to be an open source procrastinator. ;-) </soapbox> .Peter -- Peter J. Farrell [email protected] [email protected] http://blog.maestropublishing.com Identi.ca / Twitter: @maestrofjp -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options and to unsubscribe, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mach-ii-for-coldfusion?hl=en SVN: http://svn.mach-ii.com/machii/ Wiki / Documentation / Tickets: http://trac.mach-ii.com/machii/
