Hey Frank, I'm terribly sorry. I just especially like the welcome page for the feed parser. As I was grabbing the link for *some other library's tutorial* I thought, "hey you know this one isn't that bad." Maybe I should have picked on myself and posted this: http://graphserver.sourceforge.net/.
-B On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Frank Warmerdam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brandon Martin-Anderson wrote: >> How could we overcome this? A new user's first introduction to a >> system of abstraction needs to be excruciatingly gentle and >> non-abstract. Right: http://www.feedparser.org/. Wrong: >> http://www.gdal.org/gdal_tutorial.html. > > Brandon, > > It's nice to be noticed, but not this way! Gee, and I was pretty > proud of that tutorial as approachable. In fact, I found the > feedparser thing somewhat off putting. > > I would be interested in suggestions on a better structure for the > GDAL tutorial though I don't know if I would act on them. > > PS. Anselm - I kind of wish you had let the organizers know you weren't > planning to give your presentation. As session chair it was embarassing > for me to announce that you had not bothered to show up for the > presentation you signed up to give. But clearly the lesson is that > the conference folks need to cross check and identify this problem > themselves since it was alarmingly common in capetown. > > Best regards, > -- > ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- > I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam > and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
