Praise: Rev Documentation to the rescue

[Jim Bufalini]

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