Jim,
Thank you for the sage advice, and I don't pretend to expect to
master a topic over which others have spent years in the development
process. In fact, it is unlikely that I will even be able to achieve
"newbie" status any time soon. And, I suppose, many of you may think
I'm biting off more than I can chew. But one of my favorite
expressions is: "how do you eat an elephant? You do it byte by byte!"
OK, so that's old hat. Each of you have pretty much specialized in
some field, and are probably using Revolution to help you solve some
of your daily problems in that field. That is as it should be. As an
architect, I'm accustomed to getting an "overview" of an entire
problem; usually some kind of construction project. And that is what
I am trying to do with Revolution. Hopefully those deep waters of
which you spoke will not drown me! (Enormous smile)
Joe Wilkins
On Feb 17, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Jim Ault wrote:
On 2/17/07 12:19 PM, "Joe Lewis Wilkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jim, Jacque, Richard and everyone else on the RevList,
It is pretty obvious that I'm not taking advantage of even a fraction
of the available Revolution Resources. Why, the paucity of time is
one reason, but the lack of one place to go to find what is available
is probably the biggest. Perhaps, if I spent more time reading things
available from the Revolution website, I might find an answer to
this. Perhaps. Anyone have suggestions? I'm into good organization,
even though I personally suffer from a shortage of that attribute.
Help, but don't inundate me too badly. We are considering expanded
Revolution coverage on the Macinstruct.com web site, so this
information may prove to be critical to our doing a bang-up job.
Several of you have already been more than helpful, and I've
appreciated their assistance and guidance.
All I can say is "You are sailing into very deep waters".
It can look easy to dive into Rev, but then your goal becomes to
look and
feel like professional apps that required teams of programmers
years of
work.
The area of collaboration means that many of the resources are
stored across
the internet (Eric Chatonet SoSmartSoftware professional level
tutorials,
RevOnline user sample stacks, Ken Ray Revolution pages....more, more)
As Stephen said... "check out all the scripting conference stacks
http://downloads.runrev.com/section/scriptingconferences.php";
I would recommend you start the beginner experience with Dan
Shafer's book,
software at the Speed of Thought. This encapsulates the experience of
"how do I build something" + "how do I think about all the steps"
As far as how to go from A to Z and learn Rev, I would recommend
that each
week you watch the use-list, pick a topic, study it, follow the
example
links, etc.
You could do a MacInstruct article on "the Selected Monthly Rev
Topic" and
include the sample/tutorial stack links (like the RevOnline stacks)
Learning Rev is a process and a wonderful journey. Kind of like
saying "I
am going to see all the interesting places in America... but where
do I
start?"
Jim Ault
Las Vegas
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