Examples, examples, examples, including scala. The scala-lang site is a bit daunting. I think you'll get more traction on Lift if you help people to get to grips with scala as well as lift. I have no idea whether I'm a typical newcomer, but I have come from Java (previously other things going back to pascal) but as I'm not from a computer science background have no real knowledge or understanding of functional programming. Lots of scala stuff is pretty strange territory. People want a tool like Lift to do stuff quickly and easily. I'm constantly having to reference my set of 4 books (3 of which are pre-publication) just to get the "scala way" of doing something simple. I think people should be strongly encouraged to things they did to solve particular problems - not so much as an example of best practice but more "I did it like this, is there a better way?"
I personally find the discussions like the one on the scala user mailing list on treatment of enumerations in java vs scala useful and interesting but they too often reference what to me are still esoteric parts of the language that I have yet to master. So wiki pages where you could have similar threads but with a culture of illustrating every comment with a real example would be a great way to learn. I suspect most people from my type of background are starting out by writing java-style code in scala and are struggling with refactoring it to more native scala. Somewhere we could put our fledgling code up for constructive criticism without having to keep prefacing it with "Newbie question: ...." would be good. Tim On Apr 21, 8:38 pm, "Charles F. Munat" <c...@munat.com> wrote: > I am charged with coming up with a site map/information architecture for > our hopefully-soon-to-be-updated wiki. > > What would most benefit you on a documentation wiki? What sorts of > things are you having the most problems with? > > Please submit suggestions for a wiki outline, as well as any other ideas > you have. For example, ideas on wiki structure are welcome. You could > even suggest your own outline. > > Please participate! Yes, you, lurker! We want to know what you need. > > I'll collect all the ideas this weekend, consolidate them, and present a > suggested outline (road map) for the documentation wiki. > > Thanks! > > Yes! If you are reading this, then I am talking to you. Speak up. > > Chas. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
