Hi, Mike... On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 08:46:20PM -0800, Mikeroz wrote: > I've just started to have some fun with pylons and I've got a question > - what's wrong with the documentation? I mean - it's cool because it's > there but there's almost no tutorials and stuff... is someone working > on it? Or maybe someone could give us (begginers) some links to > them? :)
When I started playing with Pylons many moons ago I found myself in the same situation. And documentation was even worse back then. It's nice that the wiki contains documentation on many topics. But there's nothing like a "print it out and let it lie around at the toilet tutorial" so that's what I started working on. It was delayed because there were some changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.6 that I wanted to document properly and during the same time Michael Bayer was bored and tossed the SQLAlchemy API around making most of my documentation deprecated before I could check it in. ;) Currently I can only show a "cheat sheet" at http://wiki.pylonshq.com/display/pylonsmisc/Pylons+Cheatsheet which is not quite suitable for beginners but up-to-date. And quite some time ago I contributed my http://wiki.pylonshq.com/display/pylonscookbook/Concepts+of+Pylons article which is technically less detailed but gives an overview of Pylons. So my current work is to create a profound article introducing newcomers to the general concepts of MVC and Pylons while creating an actual Pylons project (a bookmark manager) that deals with many areas like i18n, session cookies, AJAX, deployments, database models, templates, URL routing, form validation and best practices using paster shell and the online debugger. The working title is "Beginning Pylons" and it's currently maintained at http://workaround.org/cgi-bin/hg-beginning-pylons but it's in no way ready to be used. However I keep receiving feedback from people who want me to finish that article so as soon as I can show something I'll ask for feedback. Some time this year Apress is to release a Pylons book, too. AFAIK it will also be available as LGPL or something. So perhaps I'm creating redundant work - I don't know. Perhaps that slows down my efforts a little because I hate redundancy. Let's see what comes first. :) Cheers Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.workaround.org JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg key: 79CC6586 fingerprint: 9B26F48E6F2B0A3F7E33E6B7095E77C579CC6586 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to pylons-discuss@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
