Re: Who Knew You Could Do That with RPG IV? Redbook

So given that statement, I wonder if we should pursue a Redbook Wiki for the
guide, similar to what IBM is doing in other areas?

Here is reference to a Lotus wiki:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0676.html
And here is the actual wiki:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/dominoappdev/Home

In reality the political ground work has already been laid which is one less
battle to fight. Though I am sure the RPG knowledge space will most likely
need to be brought up to a completely different set of people in IBM, which
may mean fighting the same battle from scratch.

I really think that in the end this is the direction IBM *needs* to go with
documentation. It has proven to be successful. We have the community to
support it.

Thoughts?

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com


On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Actually there are two new RedPages pieces for the Redbook that have been
issued in the last six months or so. It was decided that a full update was
not practical.

Please understand that writing Redbooks is even more a labor of love than
writing magazine articles or whatever. You get paid for magazine work and
as
long as you don't calculate your hourly rate it is at least something.

IBM pay nothing (nada, ziltch, rien) for Redbooks. Some are lucky enough
to
be paid by their employer while they work on it. In our case all of us run
our own companies. So taking time out to write a Redbook is a new loss - a
significant one.

We tried to update the book (you can follow the story line here -
http://systemideveloper.com/redbookdiary.html - although it is a little
out of
date) but so far have only manage the two new pieces. We might manage one
more - but don't hold your breath - it is just too time consuming.

Here's the links for the new bits on APIs and error handling:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4324.html

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4321.html


On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:32:12 -0500, rpg400-l-request wrote

Wow... almost two years ago is the last update.

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Mike Wills
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Jon Paris
Partner400
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