Hi All, This is more in response to the thread, than any one person's input.
Being new to the whole stack/card paradigm, as well as, to x-talk/Transcript, but not being new to programming, design, database, networking, messaging, web and application development (for over 25 years), I am probably as familiar as anyone, with the frustrations being expressed here. That said, I think the whole hue and cry here is for a panacea or holy grail. A one "place" where all our questions will be answered. A wiki, a CD, another book, a better index, etc. Don't get me wrong, these are all great ideas, and I'd love to see some or all of them come to fruition. But, in the end, if each were to be implemented, they would actually increase the number of places answers can be found, rather than consolidate all answers into the mythical "one place." And, this diversity is a good thing! The frustration we all experience is not knowing where to look! We know from personal experience that we can do something, but are not sure exactly the best way, or specifically how to implement it Rev. Combine this with the urgency of having to come up with a deliverable, by the end of the day, and not sure where to find the answer, causes us to scream, "This is so basic, why is it taking me so long to find this!?" "Why isn't this spelled out in the documentation!?" "This should be on the front page of the book!" The fact is, the answers are in the diversity of this community. Some of you have websites, some books, some articles, some sample stacks, and of course, the wonderful participation of so many in this truly great forum. This is why I appreciated so much Eric's recent release of his Resources Picker. It's because it's impossible for any one person or group to consolidate every type of information. But, if I can search the archives of this list to get a clue, of what I should be looking for, go to someone's site and find an excellent article they wrote, find a elegantly written sample stack on someone else's site or Rev Online, go to the documentation and look up the syntax I have seen in the samples and referenced in the articles and emails, and then, if I'm still unsure, post a hopefully intelligent question to this list and get an answer in hours (sometimes minutes), then the programming world of Rev, becomes my oyster. So, I guess what I'm saying is, just keep doing what you are doing! Keep writing those articles, sample stacks, emails to this list, challenges, plugins, externals, suggestions and all the rest. Just let Eric's free Resources Picker know where you put it, and then we'll all have the best of both worlds, indexed diversity! :-)) Jim _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
