Ok, I watched it, and I have some constructive criticism.
Most of the annotations are just stating the obvious and are
unnecessary, clicks already have audio cue's. You should only need to
annotate right clicks, explanations of why you are doing something or
keyboard shortcuts.
Recommending the user messes with the patternsets to (partially) work
around a bug that has already been fixed in the nightly builds is bad
advice, especially for a tutorial that will be watched at some time
the future when this is no longer necessary. It would be better to
explain that there was a bug at the time of writing in stable, and you
are using nightly to resolve it. State the build number you are using
and say that any stable build after that is fine to use.
It is my experience that even with the altered patternsets, this issue
will eventually bite beginners in other ways in the general course of
development.
From an eclipse point of view there shouldn't be any need to have
different tutorials between different platforms, everything in eclipse
should work the same on all platforms without any special instruction.
If this isn't the case, then it is possibly a bug that needs to be
filed in jira.
Here is what I would do for installing 5.3 on windows without needing
5.2:
1. Extract the entire contents of the WebObjects Runtime, and put it
under C:\apple
Rather than leave this as an exercise to the reader you can do this
like so:
1.1 Download
http://supportdownload.apple.com/download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/Mac_OS_X/downloads/061-2998.20070215.33woU/WebObjects5.3.3Update.dmg
1.2 Download http://archon.name/files/bin/dd-0.3.zip
1.3 Download http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/cpio.php
1.4 Extract WebObjectsRuntime.pax.gz:
dd if=WebObjects5.3.3Update.dmg bs=0x1000 skip=0xb12
of=WebObjects.pax.gz
(unzip Webobjects.pax.gz using 7zip or similar into c:\apple
\WebObjects.pax)
from C:\apple run: cpio --extract < WebObjects.pax
remove WebObjects.pax
(You should only ever need to do this once, after that you can zip up
C:\apple and copy it wherever you need it)
2. Set the windows environment variables like so:
NEXT_ROOT = C:\apple
NEXT_LOCAL_ROOT = C:\apple
NEXT_SYSTEM_ROOT = C:\apple\System
3. Delete any existing ~\Library\wobuild.properties
4. Install and run wolips (currently nightly).
5. That is all.
This doesn't address using IIS or wotaskd, but it is sufficient for
developing in direct connect mode and doesn't require that 5.2 was
ever installed on the machine.
On 10/05/2008, at 4:17 AM, Don Lindsay wrote:
I have uploaded the "final" version of the tutorial. This version
contains spelling fixes, and is prettied up a bit. No real steps or
content changes were made.
http://web.mac.com/pccdonl
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Seeya...Q
Quinton Dolan - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gold Coast, QLD, Australia (GMT+10)
Ph: +61 419 729 806
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