RE: RE: CGIDEV2

Yes Brad, that's why I carefully worded my comments with "at the time".

-Bob Cozzi
www.RPGxTools.com
If everything is under control, you are going too slow.
- Mario Andretti


-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Brad Stone
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 3:13 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] RE: CGIDEV2

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:38:08 -0500
 "Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The easy400 site,
> on the other hand,
> is probably the best place to learn about CGI and HTML
> with respect to RPG
> programming.

While I would tend to disagree it's the "best", I would say
it's pretty good.  But I still get a lot of emails from
people using CGIDEV2 (mainly because of the training manual
I wrote for it) that have problems because they don't
understand the core pieces of web programming in general.  

This is why my eRPG books and presentations focus on that.

If it doesn't "click" why I focus on those things (HTML,
JavaScript, CGI programming, CSS, SSI, HTTP config, etc)
then I guess one chooses to learn "the hard way".  

I've had people tell me I don't focus enough on RPG and too
much on the other topics, then email me questions as to how
to create frames, tables, etc...  non-RPG related topics.
 Those are the ones that truely are going at it blind.  

I've come full circle now and focusing on these topics more
often simply because that hasn't sunk it yet with most of
the newcomers, and a lot of the "vetrans".  i see their
code/templates and shudder....  then shudder again...  take
a deep breath, then suggest a redesign.

Brad
www.bvstools.com