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[Devin Asay]

On Mar 16, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Bill Marriott wrote:

>> [various comments about the wealth of resources available for Rev  
>> newbies]
>
> I do appreciate there's a lot of good stuff out there. As a not-so- 
> newbie I
> still find it bewildering where to look, and the landscape is  
> constantly
> changing. It seems even a mere directory of these is a daunting  
> challenge.
>
> It's my opinion that we (you can consider that "we" the company, or  
> the
> community, or both) need to develop a ore complete library of self- 
> contained
> "starter" kits for various tasks that Revolution is well-suited  
> for. A kit
> being: narrative; code snippets; sample stacks, etc.
>
> That library should be at runrev.com, and actively maintained. They  
> should
> all
>
> - share the same look-and-feel in stacks
> - use consistent style-sheets/templates for documentation
> - meet standards of professionalism
> - be dead-simple for the newcomer (no weird xTalk tricks or fancy- 
> shmancy
> footwork)
>
> I think a good example currently is the XML stack. Anyone who's  
> tried to
> understand the revXML library is familiar with it. Many of the  
> newsletter
> articles we've seen over the past few months are candidates. I'm  
> curious
> about what some other kits might consist of. Email client? Media  
> organizer?
>
> What does the community think the topics should be? And is there  
> anyone
> interested in writing them?

Aren't there already a lot of these out there? I've done several  
myself for my classes. The Online chat tutorials that Jacque  
moderated a few months back have same great tutorial stacks. You're  
right Bill. It ought to be shepherded by runrev and kept in a  
consistently-maintained repository at runrev.com. That's gonna be  
stop 1 for newbies looking for online help with Rev.

Devin


Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University