On 2006-01-08, Christopher Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A little while ago I volunteered to do some work on the CL Gardeners > project. Specifically, I volunteered to work on the Lisp GUI toolkits > pages. When I did this, I stated that I would start out by writing > something on the Ltk GUI Toolkit from Peter Herth. Well, for the past > month since I volunteered, I've been on vacation for most of it
Welcome back! > and for the rest of it, I've been playing around with Ltk whenever > time allowed. (By the way, nice work Peter (Herth) on creating the > Ltk library, I've been looking through the code for it and its very > easy to understand and its teaching me quite a bit, +1 > not too mention the library works perfectly). +1 > Anyway, I haven't actually posted anything to the CL Gardeners > projects page just yet, basically because I wanted to clarify what > we are looking for here. In the GUI toolkits pages do we want to > have reviews, tutorials, both? I would like to see both. If a review or tutorial grows over a paragraph or two, though (and what use would a one paragraph "tutorial" be, anyway? :), I would think the author should split it off into its own page, and link to it. Just my opinion. > I posted a new entry to my O'Reilly weblog on the subject of Ltk > (http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/wlg/8953) and I also did a bit of > advertising for the Gardeners project in it as well. If anyone has > the chance, please take a look at blog post and let me know if this > is about what we want in the CL Gardeners projects pages. I think it works very well as "A brief introduction to Ltk for OSX, using SBCL or OpenMCL". :) I liked it. > I.e., should I follow the same tone, length, etc. or do we want > more of a concentration on tutorials, overviews, reviews of the > library, what? Well, bottom line, do what interests you and suits your own talents and sense of esthetics. Just try to give your articles specific and appropriate titles, and link to them from appropriate pages. There Is No(t Much) Bureaucracy (TINMB) (tm). -- Larry _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
