Ken Norris wrote: >> Richard Gaskin's work on this, with his >> extensive comments on the why's, where's and how to write scripts to >> execute no matter what platform you do a build for is just brilliant. >> As I read through some of the postings here I can sometimes tell when >> when other people are using "Employe DataBase" as a starting point and >> if you have to start somewhere it does not get any better than "Employe >> DataBase". > ---------- > Yes, I agree, it's probably the best thing going, (many thanks to Richard)
And to Jeanne. A lot of the detailed comments there were added by her diligence. ... > If we start with the unknown, i.e., 'How Does Rev Work?', and work backwards > to a known point, i.e., 'Clicking This Button Makes X Happen', then anyone > will automatically know where they are when they start out. That's one of the cool things about the User Contributions listing at <http://www.runrev.com/Revolution1/developercentral/usercontributions.html>. Just about everythng there can be put to use as soon as its downloaded, but you can also dig into them and poke around freely -- and if you break something no worries, just download a fresh copy. :) ... > When I taught navigation to Civil Air Patrol cadets, I would start with > objects moving in space and work down to lines drawn on the earth's surface. > As I got closer to familiar frames of reference, I could literally watch the > lights come on in their heads. <ot> That's one of the reasons I love the work of Charles and Ray Eames: they had an unusual knack for communicating scale in understandable terms. Their most famous work along these lines was "Powers of Ten" <http://www.eamesoffice.com/powers_of_ten/powers_of_ten.html>, which illustrates scales from galactic to subatomic by starting with a person napping on a lawn and stepping out 10x successively and then stepping in 10x successively. With their formal training having been in architecture and 2D design, they're another great example of how innovations in instructional design can come from outside the formal instructional design community. </ot> -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge: Publish any database on any Web site ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution