exactly On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Mike Kerner wrote: > > > The cool thing about TD is that you don't necessarily have to write > > anything. For example, Mark's AR note from yesterday can be > > installed into TD as-is, which is exactly what Bernd did, yesterday. > > He copied and pasted the email into a text file and sent it to me. A > > couple of clicks later, and Mark's email was attached to > > acceleratedRendering. As I found out when I was trying to get some > > changes submitted for the dictionary, there is a lot more to getting > > it formatted for a dictionary entry. For a note, not so > > much. It's a note, a comment, etc. You can use TD more like a wiki. > > Good point. What we have with that post and many others like it are > effectively Tech Notes, distinct from Dictionary Entries and Tutorials. > > It's nice that Bernd has the time and interest in maintaining such a > collection, but as you noted his Dictionary is separate from the IDE, and > as such those Tech Notes are lost to the majority of LC users (except for > those using TD and the handful of us who've been obsessively bookmarking > such things over the years). > > It seems that both TD users and everyone else might benefit from a > knowledge base of Tech Notes if they were made part of the LC repo, and the > LC docs system extended to include them along with the other forms of > learning materials. > > With a central place for a Tech Note repository, Bernd's work would be > simplified by merely adding one extension to his system and everything > there comes along for the ride. > > But beyond saving Bernd the extra work, such content would be in a form > that could benefit the entire LC audience, no matter which mix of plugins > that may be using at any given time. > > A wiki might be a suitable alternative to a Mardwon-centric repo like > Github. MaxV has a wiki, and I've offered before (and my offer still > stands) to migrate that content to one of my LiveCode domains like > LiveCodeJournal.com using Wikimedia, the package Wikipedia uses, so we can > have the flexibility of a proven wiki engine but without the ads that are > an understandable by-product of a free hosting service. > > > TL;DR: > > Less formal Tech Notes are a valuable part of our community's collective > knowledge base, and it would be ideal to have a curated collection of them. > > Once we do, any tools that could benefit from including them could do so > easily. > > The value of the information is proportionate to the size of the audience > reading it. The more easily informal Tech Notes can be available to > everyone, the more the community as a whole can realize their value. > > IMO the format and location of the collection is less important than that > it exists. > > A pile of text files in a server directory today would be more valuable > than a perfectly-formatted collection that doesn't exist. > > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, "This is good." _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
