Thomas, There is alot of information on the qooxdoo site and in the wiki and I see mining information from qooxdoo as a micorocosm of doing the same on the internet itself. Qooxdoo has excellent api documentation and the demobrowser is very nice. Not to mention the code - it is well written and easy to follow.
When I decided to try to write applications for the browsers I had to learn qooxdoo, object oriented programming, how to run a server, javascript, web protocals, cherrpy, the zodb - I knew a little about most of them, but not much. I have googled the net 'till I just about wore my fingerprints off, and have spent hours/days/months looking at source code and api's and demos. What I am getting at is that someone else is doing the same thing that I have done. There is tons of information out there and I am thankful that it is out there. I was programming long before open source ever came along and I remember when there was no information. I am not taking anything away from anyone, as I am well aware of the amount of work that has to go into something like Qooxdoo - and to provide the amount of documentation and demos and examples and tools that you guys have provided. But, there has to be a better way for people to access that information in the right place at the right time in the right context. And I wish that I had the answer, but I don't. tom thron7-2 wrote: > >> I get frustrated >> because >> so much stuff flies past that I don't have time to look at, much less >> understand. > > I know what you mean, I think it happens to all of us in one way or > another. > > What's important for me as a core developer is to provide you with > sufficient aid to make your way safely through the information, rather > than bein overwhelmed by it. If we can provide enough orientation so > everybody finds what he needs to know *next*, then we did a good job. > > But this is at the same time the weak spot of all core developers. As we > are working with this stuff every day, and have done so mostly for years, > we have accumulated so much inside knowledge that guides us that we lost > sight for the perspective people have that are new to the project. We have > this insider blindness. Therefore, we depend on quality feedback from the > community, especially from those that see the project with fresh eyes. The > web site is a wiki, and without spoiling anything that is there already > you can add a document and advertise it on the mailing list, saying "Here > is a link to information that would have made my life easier had I had > this a week or a month ago". > >> I did come across something very applicable to my concerns in >> this link (http://news.qooxdoo.org/category/discussion) that I had never >> seen before, > > I'm glad you took the effort to dig for it. I'm sure the web site (and the > mailing list, BTW) contain a wealth of information (as we are actually > *writing* a lot), it just takes a bit of dedication to find it. > > T. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference > _______________________________________________ > qooxdoo-devel mailing list > qooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/qooxdoo-%22IDE%22----Request-for-Comments-tp25789918p25865130.html Sent from the qooxdoo-devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list qooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
