Id also recommend searching through the mailing list archive - the vast majority of questions we see here have been asked in the past and there are some great answers that were never distilled from the ML to the wiki.
Cheers, Tim On Jun 27, 8:31 am, "marius d." <marius.dan...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can also look son the examples application that come with Lift in > sites folder. Just get lift from github. > > Br's, > Marius > > On Jun 27, 6:22 am, g-man <gregor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > My path to learning was threefold: > > > 1. Do the 'ToDo' app tutorial, while studying the 'PocketChange' app > > from the book at the same time. > > > 2. Read the Lift book. > > > 3. Read David's and the 'Staircase' Scala books. > > > I agree that, compared to the wealth of information, books, tutorials, > > videos, etc to be found on Rails, GAE-Django, and web2py, there is far > > less for Lift and Scala, but this is a young (and, in my opinion, much > > more advanced) framework, so it will take time. > > > Tell us what you have learned, as I am doing on the group! > > > On Jun 26, 6:14 pm, Rick <ric...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Today is my very first day that I planned to take a serious look at Lift. > > > I've coded webapps in many different frameworks and plan to do a simple > > > Employee app and add my 'how to' to the site I host > > > herehttp://www.learntechnology.net/content/main.jsp(whichmanyof the > > > examples > > > there show the same application being built with different frameworks.) > > > > Some users like myself might want to start by looking at an existing > > > examples before going through the exact step by step as described in the > > > user manual (which has a broken link to the wiki by the way -yes, I > > > submitted a bug report.) > > > > If I want to take that route there should be a quick way to find example > > > projects with the source code. Finding these example was extremely > > > tedious.... > > > > At some point a new user might go the wiki. .. > > > you get to the wiki page looking for examples.. > > > you look at the content menu.. > > > you might try the 'cheat sheet getting started link'... > > > cheat by examples has a link 'lift by examples', but that doesn't seem to > > > really show example apps? > > > BY CHANCE, I happened to see in a "How To" - how to run examples (which at > > > first i thought why would I click this when I haven't even seen any > > > examples?), but I clicked it anyway.. > > > Then on the "how to run examples' link I was excited to see a list of some > > > examples (buried way to deep for a new user to find imo.) > > > Yet only the war links work? None of the project links are active? > > > > Finding example apps to study and learn by is seemingly very difficult to > > > do. Are there any out there? If so where? > > > > For new user, learning by examples is extremely important. I think a lot > > > of > > > new users will be turned off if it's difficult to find some example > > > applications to study to learn from. > > > > I understand all of this is open source and I plan to write a tutorial > > > once > > > I learn it, but it would be nice to find some existing apps to start with. > > > > thanks for all the work done so far. > > > > -- > > > Rick R --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
