Trap Valentina license time limit - where is the documentation hypelinks - LOL, can we take a good ribbing?

[Bart Pietercil]

I was a bit too tired to read (and translate) all this flaming so let  
me say this.

My experience was the same initially (not lack of but hard to find  
documentation), but this is hugely superseded by the know-how  
available on the list, most of all by the Valentina Developers  
themselves as by the more experienced developers.

As it was Thorsten experience I find that asking polite questions AND  
accepting that the answers are coming from non-native english  
speakers with a different culture goes a long way.

I also am trying to answer questions when I can as a payback to the  
list for giving me a flying start.

So I say to Thorsten:
You took the words right out of my mouth with your reply on this topic

Thx Thorsten

As to the wording of the documentation, I'm sure Ruslan (et suis)  
will be glad to accept any help that improves the documentation.

my 2 eurocents

Bart Pietercil (8 months on Valentina)

On 6-jul-07, at 21:08, Thorsten Hohage wrote:

> Hi Barry,
>
> On 2007-07-06, at 20:16, Barry G. Sumpter wrote:
>> Again, please take this as good natured ribbing as I have tones of  
>> flame
>> mail waiting to be read.  And heaps of angry users waiting to be  
>> supported.
>
> perhaps it's due to the fact, that I'm not a native speaker, but I  
> didn't get the "message" you want to express.
>
> I don't know why, but I think the "angry users" seems to be a good  
> description of how you present yourself on this list.
>
> After 5 Minutes searching the Valentina sites I found i.e. the url
>
> <http://www.valentina-db.com/dokuwiki/doku.php? 
> id=paradigma:public:en:documentation:api:valentina_class:initmethods&s 
> =demo>
>
> and a brief description of the time limited demo. And here is the  
> download link for the monthly renewed demo license file
>
> <http://www.paradigmasoft.com/en/products/download/VSERVER>
>
>
> I think asking really specific questions and not flaming about  
> missing links to documentation will produce rather helpfull  
> replies, at least from me.
>
> Btw. I started using Valentina back in February with a demo  
> licence, too. In March I ported the most of my bigger apps from  
> mySQL to Valentina and in Mai I finished the deployment to my  
> customers (individual software development, no retail). I must  
> admit I get some off-list, behind the scene help, but this was  
> after asking polite questions on this list.
>
> Of course there might be some lack of documentation, but after  
> being in software development for 20+ years, I didn't miss much.  
> Did you download all the V4RB-Examples and check the code? Check it  
> a second time? Did you read the provided documentation (PDF) on  
> V4RB? So I really wonder why you get the impression to miss so much?
>
>
> regards
>
> Thorsten Hohage
> --
> objectmanufactur.com - Hamburg,Germany
>
>
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