New user just introducing myself...
James Cass
cassj at earthlink.net
Sat Feb 19 17:07:59 EST 2005
Hey, Todd. Welcome to the Revolution!!
-James
On Feb 19, 2005, at 4:55 PM, Todd Higgins wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I purchased Dreamcard last fall and I upgraded to Revolution last
> month just in time to take advantage of the AltBrowser/MagicCarpet
> Xmas combo (Thanks Kevin and Chipp for the generous offer!)
>
> I have learned quite a lot about Revolution by reading the list
> (though I don't know how anyone can keep up with all of the traffic)
> and I want the makers of Revolution to know that part of the reason I
> decided to go with Revolution was because of the high quality (and
> personable) nature of the list.
>
> Like Len Morgan (another Revolution beginner on the list - Hi Len) I
> am having a hard time grokking Revolution. It seems like most people
> who come to Revolution have had previous experience with Hypercard
> (alas I was not so lucky, the first Mac I bought was a IIsi and it
> only came with the Hypercard player and I could not find the "full"
> version.)
>
> I am an experienced computer user, who has dabbled with Applescript
> and some shell scripting for my customers, but I have never worked in
> an IDE and have never developed a GUI tool. (My daytime job is
> "System Engineer" where I work on OS X Servers and W2K Servers)
>
> When I was evaluating Revolution previously, I remember seeing a
> tutorial section under help. I couldn't seem to find it in the 2.5
> version, so I just ordered Dan's book : )
>
> What other good habits would I do well to develop? Also, what plugins
> or externals do people consider "essential" to the Revolution
> development experience? I have read about a few on the list, but I'm
> not sure if the apply to me (or if I would just be unnecessarily
> complicating my learning curve) Any suggestions will be gratefully
> accepted!
>
> Thanks
>
> Todd
>
> --
> Todd Higgins
> ASG Systems Engineer
> MICRO Technology Groupe, Inc
> voice: 215-788-6811 fax: 215-788-1766
> email: higgins at mtgroupe.com www: http://www.mtgroupe.com
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