Judy Perry wrote:
Novice programmers can't be expected to 'dig for diamonds' because they
(a) don't know how to dig, (b) don't know what to dig with or for, and (c)
don't know how to ask relevant questions. But with HC's UI and documentation (with indices) and Danny Goodman's book (with an index), many learned successful digging techniques.
Of course your book cannot be all things to all people, but when person
after person comes to the list saying that what they really want/need is
something along the lines of Danny Goodman's book, well, perhaps they are
indicating that there is a need along those lines as well as what you are
doing.
Judy --
I've read your comments with great interest. For the most part, I agree that many users/potential users of Revolution need just the kind of documentation you describe. That's part of the reason I started revJournal -- to provide non-programmers with the necessary big picture view of what it means to program, and how to go about it in Revolution.
One year ago this past weekend, revJournal got off to a great start. To date, we have 189 registered members, and have had over 32,000 visits to the site. Now, these aren't stellar numbers, and most of the fault for that lies in the fact that we've been unable to keep the site fresh with regular content. There are only so many hours in each day, and voluntary efforts like revJournal always take a back seat to the stuff that pays the bills. Still, based on the feedback we received about the existing content, many "newbies" found the material useful. And RunRev very much wants the site to continue, and to improve.
So, with encouragement from RunRev, I've renewed the domain name and the hosting service for revJournal for another year. For at least the next twelve months, then, the material will remain available. But the project still runs the risk of petering out due to lack of fresh content.
So, in the spirit of my original intent behind revJournal, as well as your thoughtful comments, I hope to revisit my original revSchool articles in the near future. By year's end, I hope to finish the work-in-progress that I began to explore in the first series of articles.
As always, I invite contributions from the Rev community -- if you have an idea for something you want to write that you think will be useful to other users, please get in touch. I'm happy to consider material covering just about any rev-related topic, of just about any length.
On a personal note, I want to thank Dan for his book, which I think is just terrific. Aside from Rev's own documentation, which I use every time I fire up the program, Dan's book is the second source I turn to when I have a question (and the ONLY source I turn to when I'm not sitting in front of my computer).
I also want to thank the revJournal contributors: Sarah, Richard, Dan, and Bjornke. These folks have generously provided so much useful content, and the site wouldn't exist without them. Thanks to all, and I hope I can count on your continued contributions.
That's it for now -- keep on revvin' folks!
Alan S. Golub Publisher, revJournal
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