Comments on: SharePoint: Extending the DVWP – Part 24: A Note to Readers http://www.endusersharepoint.com/2010/08/03/sharepoint-extending-the-dvwp-%e2%80%93-part-24-a-note-to-readers/ No GeekSpeak on SharePoint 2007 WSS and MOSS Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:17:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: dick penny http://www.endusersharepoint.com/2010/08/03/sharepoint-extending-the-dvwp-%e2%80%93-part-24-a-note-to-readers/comment-page-1/#comment-91428 dick penny Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:52:42 +0000 http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=9082#comment-91428 This is such a good series it would be nice to have a cumulative version of it on some web page, or better, in pdf form. Some of us don't like "clicking around", we learn by careful reading, re-reading, and lots of underlines & highlight colors of our own making. This is such a good series it would be nice to have a cumulative version of it on some web page, or better, in pdf form. Some of us don’t like “clicking around”, we learn by careful reading, re-reading, and lots of underlines & highlight colors of our own making.

]]> By: Jim Bob Howard http://www.endusersharepoint.com/2010/08/03/sharepoint-extending-the-dvwp-%e2%80%93-part-24-a-note-to-readers/comment-page-1/#comment-90836 Jim Bob Howard Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:05:51 +0000 http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=9082#comment-90836 Nathan, Thanks for the thoughtful comment. I think you're right. For the rest of this series, we'll spend less time on basics. ;) Blessings, Jim Bob Nathan,

Thanks for the thoughtful comment. I think you’re right. For the rest of this series, we’ll spend less time on basics. ;)

Blessings,
Jim Bob

]]> By: Nathan Wells http://www.endusersharepoint.com/2010/08/03/sharepoint-extending-the-dvwp-%e2%80%93-part-24-a-note-to-readers/comment-page-1/#comment-90832 Nathan Wells Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:53:34 +0000 http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=9082#comment-90832 Jim Bob, I think the issue is not the fact that you are laying the foundations for more advanced bits with the basic articles, but that the series seemed to jump abruptly from fairly advanced content at around article 14 to very basic content. To continue your education thread, I see your series like this: its like having a science book. In this you have a chapter called biology and you begin with laying the foundations of knowledge and then advancing onto some tougher content. However, when you move onto another chapter, lets say Physics, you begin by running through basic mathematics before advancing onto the Physics content because you feel the reader needs a grasp of mathematics before you can handle physics (probably not true, but hey I'm not a teacher :P). In reality, maths would be out of scope for a book on science even if it was important for following what was going on. Otherwise you would have a 800 million page tome encompassing every last piece of knowledge on earth which no one could follow. Ok, that was a pretty bad way of getting my point across, but in my opinion this should have been separated into two separate series' rather than one giant one that seems to go off on an enormous tangent before (presumably) it returns to the original, intended content... [or spending ages talking about maths to lay some knowledge for a physics chapter in a science book, if you managed to follow my awful metaphor]. By article 14 you were making the assumption that the reader was a competent sharepoint admin and wouldn't need their hand held for some noddy stuff. It seemed a bit strange to me to suddenly hand hold for another 5 articles. Regards Nathan Jim Bob, I think the issue is not the fact that you are laying the foundations for more advanced bits with the basic articles, but that the series seemed to jump abruptly from fairly advanced content at around article 14 to very basic content. To continue your education thread, I see your series like this: its like having a science book. In this you have a chapter called biology and you begin with laying the foundations of knowledge and then advancing onto some tougher content. However, when you move onto another chapter, lets say Physics, you begin by running through basic mathematics before advancing onto the Physics content because you feel the reader needs a grasp of mathematics before you can handle physics (probably not true, but hey I’m not a teacher :P). In reality, maths would be out of scope for a book on science even if it was important for following what was going on. Otherwise you would have a 800 million page tome encompassing every last piece of knowledge on earth which no one could follow.

Ok, that was a pretty bad way of getting my point across, but in my opinion this should have been separated into two separate series’ rather than one giant one that seems to go off on an enormous tangent before (presumably) it returns to the original, intended content… [or spending ages talking about maths to lay some knowledge for a physics chapter in a science book, if you managed to follow my awful metaphor].

By article 14 you were making the assumption that the reader was a competent sharepoint admin and wouldn’t need their hand held for some noddy stuff. It seemed a bit strange to me to suddenly hand hold for another 5 articles.

Regards
Nathan

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