What is the product? What does it do, what need does it address, how did you analyze competing products?
What other tools did you consider to build it?
What made you decide to develop in Revolution?
What obstacles did you overcome during the development process? How?
What new features in Rev 2.0 will make maintenance/upgrades easier?
If commercial, how are you marketing/selling to the public?
What feedback are you getting from users/reviewers?
Essentially, I’d like you to speak candidly about your experience developing a product and getting it to market. Without giving away the farm, I hope you’ll provide helpful insights about the process, good and bad, what you’ve learned, mistakes you’ll avoid in the future.
Like the tutorials and reviews I’m looking for, these types of articles will also qualify for free promotional consideration on revJournal.com.
Thanks again.
Alan
On 6/23/03 11:28 AM, "Alan Golub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I’d like to invite all Revolution developers to participate in writing/developing tutorials and/or reviews for the revJournal web site. In exchange for your contribution, you’ll get your name and company listed in a byline alongside your contribution, and a free banner ad for your company/site/product. Major contributors will be eligible to become a revJournal “Sponsor of the Month,” with an ad banner prominently displayed on the revJournal home page.
I’m open to suggestions for topics you’d like to write about, but here are some things I’m particularly interested in:
revSchool: This is our tutorial section. It’s for folks with relatively little programming experience, to provide a firm grounding in the basics. I’m looking for tutorials in the following categories: (a) creating and using custom properties; (b) database development; (c) incorporating sound and video; (d) using rev’s drawing tools for interesting interface development; (e) cross-platform issues; (f) internet library (HTTP, FTP, libURL, load, etc.); (g) XML; (h) rev’s object-based paradigm; (i) text manipulation; (j) regular expressions; (k) common algorithms and data structures; (l) externals (using and developing); and (m) printing. Remember, I’m looking for just the basics here for a newbie to get started, although a series of tutorials on a single topic should get progressively more advanced.
revTools: Here’s where we review third-party resources of interest to Rev developers. If you know of a book, plug-in, standalone, web site, etc. that you’d like to write a review about, please contact me. This is an extremely broad category, so almost any relevant thing you can think of is ok.
If you are hesitant due to time constraints and/or lack of writing experience, don’t be! The writing schedule is flexible — we’ve got sufficient content to carry us through at least a couple of months, which leaves ample time to write new material for publication in late summer or early fall. As for the writing, I will be involved in editing/fine-tuning your submission so that it meets the high standards we’ll be setting for all content.
If you would like to lend your talents in exchange for promotional consideration, please contact me off-list at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks all!
Alan S. Golub
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