> Jason, 

> I think that idea of writing user manual is excellent...I know a lot of people
> how use Turbine are ninja-java-masters who can figure it out by reading the
> source code...

I still have problems reading the source code :-) I know that turbine is
very difficult to get up and running with. It can be daunting.

> but for the rest of us humans it's all a bit much at first and a really well
> written manual would certainly help. In fact I think it's an absolute must if
> Turbine wants to enjoy large scale adoption by web-developers at large.

That's always been the plan. A book will come one fine day, but probably not
anytime soon unfortunately.

> Speaking from my own experience, I'd love to see a good overview/introduction
> document as I spent about 6 weeks just getting to grips with the whole
>framework and figuring out where to start before I could really even begin to
>produce anything usefull. Other things that I think would be an excellent help
>is a "cookbook" type of document (similar to the O'Reilly cookbooks), and maybe
>a document that focuses on how best to go about designing your applications so
>that they work well with the Turbine framework.

All good ideas, just a matter of time.

> Anway, that's my opinion...for what's worth    =:o)

Thanks!

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jvz.

Jason van Zyl

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