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Hello. I would like to suggest that you consider ability to consolidate all knowledge base of LightSpeed in one place. Because now there is real trouble to find all information that I need. Some information is placed in help file, some in blog posts, some in video tutorial, some in "jb's blog" (part connected with MVC), some in community code (by the way what is it, it is abset now). So whan I need to find out what is best practises to use UnitOfWork in ASP.NET context (request-response system) where I should look? The help file is very simple and unsubstentive, blog post is very separete. Maybe it would be good idea to make an aggregator of links to all articals about LightSpeed groupped by cathegory and purpose. --- |
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I'm totally agree with you. LightSpeed is a wonderful product. I did a lot of research around the web to find the best orm and LightSpeed is the very best in my view for several aspects. I tried DataObjects .Net, OpenAccess, LinqConnect, Linq To SQL, Entity Framework and no one have the advantages that LightSpeed have with the new features continually added every week. The very big problem is that all the knowledge of genius guy like Ivan is hidden in blogs. If you follow the blogs every day like me, you will discover all the great features but in other case, even if the product is easy to use, intuitive with a nice visual designer, you will miss a lot of how the engine works behind the scene. Just a better structure in the web site to search in all existing blog would be great. |
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Hi Guys, We hear you on this. It's just trying to identify the best way of doing this. Some things I think we should certainly do:
We've also considered a Wiki in the past, but I fear that would just add another silo until we implement the site wide search options. Any additional thoughts are appreciated. John-Daniel |
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Hello! I think would be helpful to make an one central page on your site where users can start investigation in lightspeed. That should be page with cathegorised links with description to main aspects of using LightSpeed. I would like see more articles about real situation of using LightSpeed. Konstantin |
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A tag cloud would be a great idea. Without be able to search in blog, it would be a nice idea to start. |
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I would love to see the consolidation too. Wiki style documentation would be great - then users could contribute. - Scott |
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Just to be clear, you can search the blog. There is a search box at the top of the pages: http://www.mindscapehq.com/blog/ Hope that helps, John-Daniel Trask |
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Hello John-Daniel, Only to show all poor situation with searching information about lightspeed I would like to make an example: Once I saw the next Article http://www.mindscapehq.com/staff/jeremy/index.php/2009/03/aspnet-mvc-part1/ by JB, and if my memory serves me right I found it in some blog post. Now the Question: How could I find it using you blog serach tool? Especialy I was surprised by search result listing: only 4 (four) items in list and small link "Previous entries". As for me, it is absolutely inconvenient!
Konsantin. |
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Ah, search across multiple blogs! Jeremy's blog is his own, not the main Mindscape one sorry. The site search I'm working on should resolve that. Cheers, John-Daniel |
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But as I understand it is hosted on mindscapehq.com. Isn't it? Konstantin. |
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It is, yes, and should be more accessible through a site wide search. John-Daniel |
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Can you at least provide a link list of all (still relevant) LightSpeed blog articles? You surely don't expect us (new customers) to go back in the Blog page-by-page since its inception in order to discover what may be there? One can't search for something one doesn't know exists. |
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Hi Alex, We went through and have tried to create a living document in terms of our User Guide for LightSpeed. It's included in PDF format in the LightSpeed 4 installer, has a web version on our site and is even purchasable as a printed book. It's 330+ pages that discusses and covers most of what is current and useful to developers working with LightSpeed. You can read more about the user guide (remember, the PDF is in the installer also!) here: http://www.mindscapehq.com/products/lightspeed/lightspeed-book The blog is a bit of a stream of conciousness for the company in terms of new features being added so I appreciate it's not great for new users to go digging in. As an aside, LightSpeed since version 2 hasn't undertaken any major infrastructural changes. We've improved the core querying, distributed support, meta data integration, migrations, designer cabailities and LINQ provider but that does mean that most posts since version 2 was released years ago are still fairly relevant. The only things to pay attention to are where we say something isn't yet supported on older posts - we do try very hard to improve based on feedback. I hope that helps, John-Daniel trask |
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