Close all databases - tutorial - book

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Ruslan,

I haven't answered your question yet: why to confuse people with the 
fact that the free version of VServer allows only 5 connections? Because 
most people will download the software and start playing with it without 
buying a license first. If they can't figure out what they're doing 
wrong immediately, they will never buy that license, thinking that your 
software doesn't work.

Therefore, you need to make clear that the free version works for 5 
connections only and allows more than 5 connections if one buys a 
license. You'll need only one or two lines for this, so I doubt that it 
will cause much confusion. Most people will ignore it, but they'll be 
happy to know when they run into this limitation.

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On 10/15/2013 19:18, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:
> On 10/15/13 7:24 PM, "Mark Schonewille" <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com>
> wrote:
>
>> - the tutorial is in the wrong order. Is starts with opening and closing
>> a database and continues with creating an interface. When you read a
>> first step-by-step tutorial, you don't want to read about a creating an
>> interface. You want to know: a) create connection, b) create or open
>> database, c) do the most simple query you can thing of, d) close the
>> database, e) close the connection, f) you can repeat this as often as
>> you like without getting in trouble. It is very important that you do
>> this in exactly this order without adding stuff that is not necessary in
>> the very first tutorial.
>
> Ok I see point ...
>
> Well, so we can copy that lesson 1,
> And just cut off that GUI parts ... Not a problem ...
> I always happy make things minimalistic :-)
>
>
>> - the query in step 5, using vDatabase_Table() and other functions
>> really is something that you'd write in another tutorial, for people who
>> already comprehend the first tutorial
>
> ok
>
>> - there's lots and lots of info about navigating records and when you're
>> starting with Valentina, you don't even understand why you'd need that
>> and there are no explanation of why you'd need that.
>>
>> - step 6 shouldn't be there either. This isn't something for starters.
>>
>> - The tutorial should finish with step "Closing Connections and Databases".
>
> ok
>
>> - Tutorial 2 should also explain that only 5 connections can be made and
>> how you can make sure that an application uses only one connections.
>
> Why you think it should talk about 5 connections?
> Somebody can have vserver infinity.
> So why confuse them by this info ...
>
>
>> Yes, send me your postal mail. I'll send you my book.
>
> ok
>