Re: fixing web docs

2011-03-30 Thread Phil Hagelberg
On Mar 29, 10:56 pm, Nick Zbinden wrote: > One more thing people should do is update there blogs. I know its > stupid work but I should be done. Its extremly confusing when google > for something. > > Update your blog with a little notice or update it that it is correct > again. Excellent point.

Re: fixing web docs

2011-03-30 Thread Sean Corfield
Yup. After seeing this thread start up, I went back thru my handful of Clojure posts and double-checked links and examples (and found my post about getting started with Leiningen no longer worked in some places and provided different output in others - so I fixed it). Keeping seven and a half years

Re: fixing web docs

2011-03-30 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Rayne wrote: > I think emailing me or telling me on IRC or > twitter or one of the other easily found and plentiful ways to get a > hold of me is much better than complaining about it as if it were > something that is impossible to fix. I tweeted it was down with

Re: fixing web docs

2011-03-30 Thread Ambrose B
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Nick Zbinden wrote: > > Dare I mention the idea of an official (or semi-official) Clojure > documentation project that ties together the disparate sources that > currently exist? What say you, community? > > I was thinking about something. This is just an idea spi

Re: fixing web docs

2011-03-30 Thread Nick Zbinden
> Dare I mention the idea of an official (or semi-official) Clojure > documentation project that ties together the disparate sources that currently > exist? What say you, community? I was thinking about something. This is just an idea spil I didn't do anything jet. Kind of like a learning assis

Re: fixing web docs

2011-03-29 Thread Devin Walters
Dare I mention the idea of an official (or semi-official) Clojure documentation project that ties together the disparate sources that currently exist? What say you, community? There is a lot of information out there that simply needs to be placed in the right bucket in order for it to be useful

Re: fixing web docs

2011-03-29 Thread Nick Zbinden
One more thing people should do is update there blogs. I know its stupid work but I should be done. Its extremly confusing when google for something. Update your blog with a little notice or update it that it is correct again. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: fixing web docs

2011-03-29 Thread Rayne
It is a hosting problem. Heinz (Licenser) currently hosts the domain and the site as well. It is not really under my control. I had no idea that the site was down. I think emailing me or telling me on IRC or twitter or one of the other easily found and plentiful ways to get a hold of me is much bet

Re: fixing web docs

2011-03-29 Thread Ken Wesson
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Devin Walters wrote: > TryClojure is an opportunity, not a liability. Treat it as such. Oh, I agree that it is an opportunity, but in its present yo-yo state it will reflect poorly on the main site and have unintended consequences. I wholeheartedly support the ide

Re: fixing web docs

2011-03-29 Thread Alan
My understanding is that it's mostly a hosting problem. I'll ask Raynes about it - the code is mostly his, as I understand it. On Mar 29, 5:08 pm, Sean Corfield wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Ken Wesson wrote: > >> Pointing out try-clojure.org would probably be a good thing there > >>

Re: fixing web docs

2011-03-29 Thread Devin Walters
-1 TryClojure is an opportunity, not a liability. Treat it as such. 2c Sent via mobile On Mar 29, 2011, at 8:00 PM, Ken Wesson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Sean Corfield wrote: >> Having one central authoritative Getting Started page might be a good >> thing. > > +1 > >> Howev

Re: fixing web docs

2011-03-29 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Ken Wesson wrote: >> Pointing out try-clojure.org would probably be a good thing there >> (although that site is currently down) > > Terrible idea, unless that site is going to become a *lot* more > reliable in the very near future and then stay that way. I agree

Re: fixing web docs

2011-03-29 Thread Ken Wesson
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Sean Corfield wrote: > Having one central authoritative Getting Started page might be a good > thing. +1 > However, the official page isn't very welcoming for newbies right now > since it assumes you either start with an IDE or a build tool. > Pointing out try-cl

Re: fixing web docs

2011-03-29 Thread Devin Walters
An effort to enumerate misleading stackoverflow answers is another noteworthy endeavor that requires a bit of attention. Food for thought. Sent via mobile On Mar 29, 2011, at 8:44 AM, Stuart Halloway wrote: > Hi all, > > One way to help people getting started with Clojure is to make sure the

Re: fixing web docs

2011-03-29 Thread LordGeoffrey
I use confluence elsewhere and it is fine. On 30/03/11 04:14, Sean Corfield wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Stuart Halloway wrote: [2] NEW http://dev.clojure.org/display/doc/Getting+Started Sometimes this wiki seems grindingly slow (for me, at least). Is that a known issue with Confl

Re: fixing web docs

2011-03-29 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Stuart Halloway wrote: > [2] NEW http://dev.clojure.org/display/doc/Getting+Started Sometimes this wiki seems grindingly slow (for me, at least). Is that a known issue with Confluence or that server? > [5] OLD http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Clojure_Programming/Gett

Re: fixing web docs

2011-03-29 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Stuart Halloway wrote: > I would appreciate it if somebody would volunteer to update the content on > wikibooks [5]. It is extremely misleading because it mixes recent edits, > somewhat dated material, and very dated material. Would it be better if > wikibooks just

Re: fixing web docs

2011-03-29 Thread Federico Brubacher
I think wikibooks has value on its own (it helped me when i was starting). I can help do some work to clean the old stuff, update it, improve it, etc. Best Federico On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Stuart Halloway wrote: > Hi all, > One way to help people getting started with Clojure is to make