<div dir="ltr">I bought the book and while I am not a beginner, it was a great purchase. Congrats Mark!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div>Neal Campbell</div><div>Abroham Neal LLC<br></div><br><div><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Mark Schonewille <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:m.schonewille@economy-x-talk.com" target="_blank">m.schonewille@economy-x-talk.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Ruslan,<br>
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- the turorial contains a "collectPains" handler, which is really too much for a starting Valentina user and which is also superfluous. In a tutorial like this, there shouldn't be such a handler.<br>
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- the tutorial doesn't tell me how to use VServer. Nada.<br>
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- 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.<br>
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- 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<br>
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- 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.<br>
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- step 6 shouldn't be there either. This isn't something for starters.<br>
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- The tutorial should finish with step "Closing Connections and Databases".<br>
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- 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.<br>
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Yes, send me your postal mail. I'll send you my book.<br>
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On 10/15/2013 18:02, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi Mark,<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
That tutorial really didn't help me. I've looked at it years ago and I looked<br>
at it again recently.<br>
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The main question is: why It did not help you?<br>
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It shows how to get working db application.<br>
Step by step.<br>
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Of course it not answers all possible questions.<br>
What exactly was hard? If you remember of course<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Maybe I should send you my book. If you contact me<br>
off-list with your address, I'll send it to you. It'll show you what good<br>
tutorials look like.<br>
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You mean email or post-box?<br>
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