Re: WDSC vs SEU

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm a pretty constant user of WDSC these days - 
with occasional forays into SEU when it best fits 
my task. I take a small exception to the linkage 
of "more productive" with "cool, current and 
happy". That's not an automatic correlation.

But enough on that horse. At the RPG&DB2 Summit 
recently, I was part of an impromptu kind of 
thing - in talking with someone who has never 
used WDSC, at lunch, I took out my laptop, 
connected to my PC at work, and opened it up. 
Showed him what I do with it. This kind of 
mini-mentoring turned out to be enough to make 
him say he'd have to reconsider and take a look at it.

This is time-consuming, perhaps, but a good model 
for opening new horizons, when it can be done. 
The video things are reasonable replacements for 
this, as well as various tutorials. Don Nitke has 
a number of tutorials based on his experience in 
learning to use WDSC - and he's not with IBM. 
Aaron Bartell gave a casual presentation of his 
favorite 45 (and growing) things he likes about 
WDSC - Aaron, did you say it is available on www.mowyourlawn.com?

Yet, in all this, SEU is the best tool for a 
quick one line change. Use it! Get the job done!! 
Use WDSC for more extended projects that it's good for.

Vern

At 01:25 AM 10/24/2007, you wrote:

> Buck skrev  den 16-10-2007 20:31:
> > Yep, I hear the same thing, but when I walk by I still see SEU. People
> > WANT to be more productive.  People WANT to use new stuff.  People WANT
> > to be cool, current and happy.  We on this list see people trickle in,
> > trying WDSC - they WANT to try it, they ARE trying it, but it's not
> > meeting their expectations.
> >
> > How can we as a community help them?  That's a serious question, not a
> > cynical blow-off.
> >
> Excellent question.  This goes well with Joe Pluta who mentions that his
> classes generally do well as they are shown the way to do the things
> they need.
>
> The Netbeans folks frequently do video demos (showing their screen with
> voice over explaining what we see) of their new things so people can SEE
> what happens instead of just being told in words in a tutorial.
>
> Perhaps a few cases of common tasks with such commentaries would be
> immensely valuable as visual tutorials where you can always go back and
> see how it was done?
>
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>   Thorbjørn
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