[Dbix-class] docs updated to help dbic beginners

Matt S Trout dbix-class at trout.me.uk
Thu Oct 13 21:10:32 CEST 2005


On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 08:32:45PM +0200, Krzysztof Krzyzaniak wrote:
> Matt S Trout wrote:
> >On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 08:09:06PM +0200, Krzysztof Krzyzaniak wrote:
> >
> >>Hartmaier Alexander wrote:
> >>
> >>>After talking to Matt (or should i say bombarding him with questions on 
> >>>irc *g*) we've come to the conclusion that the docs need better 'newbie 
> >>>support' (for people like me) and simply more examples as well.
> >>
> >>Youre damn right!
> >
> >
> >Yep. So, here's some things to do -
> >
> >1. There are some useful notes on the wiki. There need to be more. If
> >anybody figures something out by asking on here or talking to the people in
> >#dbix-class, *please* drop a quick note somewhere on the wiki.
> >
> >2. Documentation patches such as this are *very* welcome and I'll be 
> >handing
> >out commit bits to anybody who provides a good one.
> 
> There is two problems, so far I can only ask the questions (and not 
> answering them) and second my english is far from perfect. So I can only 
> push the things :-)

I'm aware a fair number of people don't have the dubious privilege of
english as a first language.

Fortunately, I'm a spelling and grammar pedant - I'll fix up submissions as
they come in, and save my sarcasm for my fellow countrymen :)

The part I have trouble with is figuring out what people need to know and how
to explain it to them; I write usable but extremely terse reference
documentation but I can't write tutorial stuff to save my life.
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