[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-05 Thread Narayanaswamy, Mohan
To: liftweb@googlegroups.com Subject: [Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)! Formalities or content? http://wiki.liftweb.net/index.php/Maven_Mini_Guide must be improved. For people not accustomed to maven it is very hard to grasp the versions/release/snapshot/pom

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-04 Thread TSP
Examples, examples, examples, including scala. The scala-lang site is a bit daunting. I think you'll get more traction on Lift if you help people to get to grips with scala as well as lift. I have no idea whether I'm a typical newcomer, but I have come from Java (previously other things going

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-04 Thread David Pollak
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 7:58 AM, richard.car...@me.com richard.car...@me.com wrote: My personal view is that a worked example of a fully featured eCommerce type site would be most useful. Even something as simple as a cut down Amazon style store with inventory management would be a great

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-04 Thread Chris H.
Hi Chas, Glad to see that there will be some time spent expanding and refining the Lift documentation, good docs are definitely the sign of a well run project. I am one of those lurkers you speak about, so I thought I'd speak up and give my input. I would like to see explanations on creating

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread David Pollak
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Axel Rose axel.roesl...@googlemail.comwrote: Hello Charles, I know I'm a bit late for your request to consolidate the lift wiki. Anyway: It's really puzzling to me to get the version numbers right, when creating a new archetype with maven. The Maven mini

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread richard.car...@me.com
My personal view is that a worked example of a fully featured eCommerce type site would be most useful. Even something as simple as a cut down Amazon style store with inventory management would be a great start. That would be a useful foundation for the rest of Lift's features (add-ons such as

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Bryan.
I'd like to help with the wiki as well. Let me know if there is anything in particular that you would like me to do. --Bryan On May 3, 9:46 am, David Pollak feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Axel Rose axel.roesl...@googlemail.comwrote: Hello Charles,

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Timothy Perrett
Wow! Too lazy to register?! IMO, registration is a one-time event and is needed to combat spam / bot activity. Rather than having a system where people complain / suggest alterations, we prefer people to just get on and change them... Power to the people! On 03/05/2009 14:33, Axel Rose

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Timothy Perrett
Richard, its a shame you feel like that. Your comments about examples are noted, however you must bear in mind that both scala and lift are young (relatively speaking) and a lot of the applications that are out there, are behind corporate firewalls (including mine) - so don't be fooled into

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Charles F. Munat
Thanks, Axel. Will take this under consideration. Chas. Axel Rose wrote: Hello Charles, I know I'm a bit late for your request to consolidate the lift wiki. Anyway: It's really puzzling to me to get the version numbers right, when creating a new archetype with maven. The Maven

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Charles F. Munat
Thanks, Richard. Very helpful. Chas. richard.car...@me.com wrote: My personal view is that a worked example of a fully featured eCommerce type site would be most useful. Even something as simple as a cut down Amazon style store with inventory management would be a great start. That would be

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Charles F. Munat
Thanks! Will do! Chas. Bryan. wrote: I'd like to help with the wiki as well. Let me know if there is anything in particular that you would like me to do. --Bryan On May 3, 9:46 am, David Pollak feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Axel Rose

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Axel Rose
Formalities or content? http://wiki.liftweb.net/index.php/Maven_Mini_Guide must be improved. For people not accustomed to maven it is very hard to grasp the versions/release/snapshot/pom dependencies. Various articles use various version numbers when building examples. I, personally, got lost.

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Tom Arnold
Hello List! I might as well share my thoughts about docs. I think as with Scala and Lift you should try to beat the best that is out there. And from all the user made language/API/framework wikis I have seen the one from a now pretty unpopular game is by far the best:

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Charles F. Munat
Tom, Thanks for this link! The Second Life wiki is very interesting, and makes it obvious that one can do a lot with MediaWiki. I'll definitely spend some time exploring it. Chas. Tom Arnold wrote: Hello List! I might as well share my thoughts about docs. I think as with Scala and

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Charles F. Munat
James, This looks more like about $20, but I'm not complaining. Your thoughts mirror mine in many ways. #4 is a very good idea. Even just a list of what is needed. Folks could add to a documentation wishlist, and then anyone who thought he or she could tackle an item could just do it. I'm