Posted by:
Howard Lewis Ship
on 08/17/2010
I'm taking some time to work on the Tapestry documentation ... starting with the FAQ. It's great fun, though this could get to be quite large. I'm just spewing out content right now, over time we'll clean it up, reorganize it, and add further hyperlinks and annotations.
In fact, as I'm working on the FAQ, I'm thinking this might be the best way to document open source projects in general. User's guides and reference documents are rarely read, everyone just Google's their question, so put those questions in their most findable format. Also, it's hard to write a consistent user guide start to finish ... but more reasonable to document one tidbit at a time.
Also, I'm reminded of The Little Schemer, a book that teaches the entire Scheme language (a Lisp variant) via a series of questions of ever broadening scope.
Feel free to suggest additional FAQ topics on the Tapestry Users mailing list.
Howard Lewis Ship's complete blog can be found at: http://tapestryjava.blogspot.com
About Howard Lewis Ship
Howard Lewis Ship is the creator and lead developer for the Apache Tapestry project, and is a noted expert on Java framework design and developer productivity. He has over twenty years of full-time software development under his belt, with over ten years of Java. He cut his teeth writing customer support software for Stratus Computer, but eventually traded PL/1 for Objective-C and NeXTSTEP before settling into Java.
Howard is respected in the Java community as an expert on web application development, dependency injection, Java meta-programming, and developer productivity. He is a frequent speaker at JavaOne, NoFluffJustStuff, ApacheCon and other conferences, and the author of "Tapestry in Action" for Manning (covering Tapestry 3.0). Lately, he's been dipping his toes into alternate languages, including Clojure.
Howard is an independent consultant, offering Tapestry training, mentoring and project work as well as training in Clojure. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Suzanne, and his son, Jacob.
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