Re: Example of creative use of DITA by software implementation company

2015-05-28 Thread Todd Thorner
Very nice, thanks for the link to such valuable info. On 15-05-28 02:48 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote: > http://intuillion.com/2015/05/27/how-we-used-dita-to-automate-generation-of-requirements-documents/ > > > This is an interesting read if you have to generate proposals that > include custom require

Example of creative use of DITA by software implementation company

2015-05-28 Thread Ron Wheeler
http://intuillion.com/2015/05/27/how-we-used-dita-to-automate-generation-of-requirements-documents/ This is an interesting read if you have to generate proposals that include custom requirements with costing. Ron -- Ron Wheeler President Artifact Software Inc email: rwhee...@artifact-softwar

Re: Ofbiz search engine

2015-05-28 Thread Tom Running
Martin, I have downloaded and built the Tika. I need solr cell ExtractingRequestHandler. Do you know if I have to I have to download the whole Solr package? Does it require the whole Solr pacakage to run or I only need the Solr ExtractingRequestHandle jar file? Can I use the exiting Solr come wi

Re: [DISCUSSION] OFBiz Online Documentation

2015-05-28 Thread Ron Wheeler
One of the things that concerns me about AsciiDoc is that some formatting is mixed in with content. This makes reuse problematic. I am not sure that IDE's can validate AsciiDoc documents or provide "code" assist/autocompletion which is possible for IDE's such as Eclipse with DITA. I am not su

Re: [DISCUSSION] OFBiz Online Documentation

2015-05-28 Thread Todd Thorner
I have yet to take a look (or another look), but that seems about right (I think the presentation was mainly about data models). Is Mr. El Omeiri still active on this ml? Also, the anal part of me needs to edit my bit about editing skills to read "editing skill." Ha. On 15-05-28 08:07 AM, Mic

Re: [DISCUSSION] OFBiz Online Documentation

2015-05-28 Thread Michael Brohl
Todd, do you mean this Prezi http://prezi.com/qqp54gt46pn_/apache-ofbiz-development/ from Jad El Omeiri? Am 28.05.15 um 16:52 schrieb Todd Thorner: I'm pretty much sitting this one out (seems to have jumped right into the tech selection and I don't understand OFBiz well enough yet to be usef

Re: Running ofbiz on a AWS EC2 micro instance

2015-05-28 Thread Christopher Smith
64 bit for a 1 gig instance? On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Ravi Shekhar wrote: > Yes, Java 7 is good. Go for a 64 bit version for both Linux and Java. And > configure swap partition too. > > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Christopher Smith > wrote: > > > There are 2 micro instances. One

Re: [DISCUSSION] OFBiz Online Documentation

2015-05-28 Thread Todd Thorner
I'm pretty much sitting this one out (seems to have jumped right into the tech selection and I don't understand OFBiz well enough yet to be useful as a writer-contributor so I wouldn't be able to offer much quality input), but for what it's worth the most important considerations for a typing archi

New Format for Apachecon EU 2015 Event

2015-05-28 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Everyone The format of Apachecon EU is changing. An announcement has just come out about the new format. http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2015/05/linux-foundation-announces-new-conference-support-collaboration

Re: [DISCUSSION] OFBiz Online Documentation

2015-05-28 Thread Paul Mandeltort
The OS X UI guidelines doc is a fantastic read. It concisely sums up many modern Engineering Psychology best practices. Anyone who is designing front-end or back-end screens should be familiar with at least the basics. https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/UserExperience/Conce

Re: [DISCUSSION] OFBiz Online Documentation

2015-05-28 Thread Pierre Smits
In stead of adding another set of complexities and potential orphaned endeavours (asciidoc, markdown, etc) to the mix of https://www.openhub.net/p/Apache-OFBiz/analyses/latest/languages_summary#dingus-row, I suggest applying something that contributors already have experience and/or are comfortable

Re: [DISCUSSION] OFBiz Online Documentation

2015-05-28 Thread Jacques Le Roux
And finally: Read theStandardization section at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown Also this one is maybe a bit biased (done by Dan Allen who supports AsciiDOc) but still an interesting comparison: https://gist.github.com/mojavelinux/5870367 check Asciidoc https://gist.githubusercontent.com/

Re: [DISCUSSION] OFBiz Online Documentation

2015-05-28 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Another interesting opinion: http://www.neveruntilnow.com/asciidoctor/ Jacques Le 28/05/2015 13:19, Jacques Le Roux a écrit : I'm still undecided on this, but I feel AsciiDoc is "slowly" gaining interest see http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=106&thread=361787 It's the same spirit than

Re: [DISCUSSION] OFBiz Online Documentation

2015-05-28 Thread Jacques Le Roux
I'm still undecided on this, but I feel AsciiDoc is "slowly" gaining interest see http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=106&thread=361787 It's the same spirit than Json againt XML...Though Markdown is not XML, but Dita is. Also AsciiDoc offers a lot of export possibilities, see http://en.wi

Re: [DISCUSSION] OFBiz Online Documentation

2015-05-28 Thread Taher Alkhateeb
Hi Jacques and all, If you want a simple documentation language then markdown comes to mind. It is simple, beautiful, mature and well supported in terms of tools and probably covers the 90% of cases needed by everyone. So throwing another suggestion in the mix. Taher Alkhateeb - Origin

Re: [DISCUSSION] OFBiz Online Documentation

2015-05-28 Thread Jacques Le Roux
That sounds quite an interesting way Ron. I also believe we should get rid of DocBook in favour of DITTA or maybe even AsciiDoc (the last smart guy) as we already discussed at the bottom of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-4941 I also like the idea of separating the documentation from

Re: [DISCUSSION] OFBiz Online Documentation

2015-05-28 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Le 27/05/2015 16:41, Paul Mandeltort a écrit : End user here - online help has always been a weak spot for OFbiz. I would suggest putting more effort into making things self-documenting whenever possible. For example, adding descriptive tool tips to what buttons do ("clicking this will process