Learning Revolution

[Dan Shafer]

Using a Wiki for documentation is a great idea. Someone from this list 
started one a while back for Rev but I don't seem to be able to find 
any info on it.

I would be happy to host and manage such a service if we could get the 
docs into a form that would lend itself to a page-per-language-element 
kind of structure.

Dan

On Mar 8, 2005, at 11:43 AM, Stephen Barncard wrote:

> At 10:51 AM -0800 3/8/05, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>
>> So maybe an interim process to start work on such index expansion 
>> might be an extension of the "user notes" facility, which would allow 
>> ad hoc additions to the search endex.  As related terms become 
>> evident, anyone could log them into a pool which is queued for the 
>> next release.
>>
>> Richard Gaskin
>>  Fourth World Media Corporation
>
> Richard! A light bulb went off in my brain - (ouch)
>
> I think the best interactive model for learning Rev would be  the 
> wonderful online MySQL reference. I get almost more from the users' 
> comments than I do from the definitions!! Look at the comments, 
> examples, and strong opinions! The comments are so clean they must be 
> moderated! Perhaps different volunteers manage different areas of 
> expertise.
>
> I want for Revolution what they got!
>
> Here's a random example page. Scroll down for the comments.
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/merge-table-problems.html
> This site is a perfect example of class A web design and content 
> management. These guys eat their own dog food, for sure. PHP/MYSQL. I 
> wonder if the source code for that wiki is also open source? And where 
> can I get it?
>
> The docs in a constantly-updated MySQL database! Cool. It even builds 
> docs in pdf and html form - also probably out of the database.
>
> This list is friendly and very helpful and the combined brainpower of 
> many xtalk pros (may I say 'legends') here, but much of this wisdom 
> has to be repeated over and over again for new arrivals without 
> context from the past - and no organized repository that I know of to 
> the extent of MySQL's site.
>
> Here's the full index to the docs:
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/index.html
>
> Also is there a reason this information needs to be hidden from the 
> public? i.e not on the free web? "software at the speed of thought" 
> could be also "documents updated at the speed of thought" ..
>
>  Yes I know Rev is not open source...but..
>
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