Let's not forget that Apple teaches two levels of week-long WebObjects
courses, as do other companies.
I bet the instructors have a very good feel for what newbies ask and don't
grok early on, and successful ways to answer the questions that arise. I
don't know if the instructors liase with the people who write the docs
(maybe they're the same people, which would be great!) but I bet the
instructors would be great at helping the documentation along.
There really should be a nutshell book for WebObjects.
And the UML diagrams would be very helpful too! Of course, why can't that
be a 3rd party opportunity?
Jim
> > I think all you'd need to do is get 100 new developers and
> just sit with
> > them for a few weeks as they try to figure things out on their own,
> > recording their questions...
>
> That's a great suggestion. I think once you become immersed
> in this stuff
> it just makes sense and you forget what its like not understand it.
> WebObjects and EOF are an amazing tools once things "click"
> but if all you
> know is how to munge PERL, Java and/or C++ with SQL its not
> going to make a
> lot of sense at first.
>
> Apple should hire a Web company which builds sites with other
> tools to have
> a group of their engineers learn WebObjects and then help
> Apple fill in the
> gaps in the documentation, diagrams, etc. to help them make
> the transition.
>
> BTW, it would also be nice if Apple would publish UML
> diagrams for all their
> frameworks. It would be nice to have poster-sized versions
> of these to hang
> on the wall.
>
