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[amibroker] Re: Users' Knowledge Base and myriad of support resources...



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Thanks all.
Brian_z - just an FYI, the Yahoo groups are in fact RSS enabled as 
well.

Cheers.

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "brian_z111" <brian_z111@xxx> wrote:
>
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "rob_7429" <rob__shaw@> wrote:
> >
> > I've been an AmiBroker customer for over a month now and loving 
> every 
> > minute of it. It's an incredibly deep and powerful tool, with an 
> > amazing community as you all know.
> > 
> > In that time, I've spent many hours scouring the amibroker 
website, 
> > the yahoo groups, and the myriad of other AB information sources 
> out 
> > there.
> > 
> > I thought I had a pretty good grasp on the lay of the land, until 
I 
> > shockingly discovered the "Users' Knowledge Base" 
> > (http://www.amibroker.org/userkb/), not to be confused with the 
> > official "Knowledge Base" (http://www.amibroker.com/kb/), from a 
> > posting by Herman recently.
> > (ps. Amazing job Herman & Brian_z - the Amibroker community is in 
> > your debt for generously spreading your knowledge).
> > 
> > I found it staggering that this wealth of knowledge had eluded me 
> > until today.
> > 
> > So the purpose of this message:
> > 
> > (1) A passionate plea to Tomasz to put links to the Users' 
> Knowledge 
> > Base on the Amibroker website. I couldn't find one.
> > 
> > (2) To share the following observation in the interests of 
helping 
> > Tomasz make Amibroker an even greater commercial success:
> > 
> > There is an incredible amount of useful information on Amibroker 
> and 
> > trading, but the organization of it is in a complete state of 
> > disarray. I suspect a large number of potential customers have 
> walked 
> > away once presented with the large number of documents and links 
> that 
> > lack an organized flow. IMHO Amibroker is too good of a tool to 
let 
> > this occur.
> > 
> > My quick inventory of support resources includes:
> > 
> > - Users' Knowledge Base
> > - Knowledge Base
> > - Devlog
> > - 4 yahoo groups w/ files (amibroker, amibroker-ts, amibroker-
afl, 
> & 
> > amibroker-news)
> > - User's guide
> > - Official tutorials
> > - Member submitted tutorials
> > - Video tutorials
> > - AFL Library
> > - FAQ
> > - Troubleshooting guide
> > - Starters Guide
> > - Old AmiBroker Tips Newsletters 
> > - Additional documentation on the amibroker.com support page
> > 
> > This is a lot of resources for a new customer to get a handle on, 
> and 
> > a lot for an existing customer to monitor for new posts.
> > 
> > My recommendation:
> > 
> > Take a holistic view of all the support resources and reorganize 
> them 
> > into a cohesive assembly, delete outdated resources (E.g. 
amibroker-
> > news), migrate useful resources into the user's guide (E.g 
> > Troubleshooting guide and FAQ) or into the Knowledge Base (E.g. 
> > Amibroker Tips newsletter), etc.
> > 
> > The relatively recent introduction of the Knowledge Bases and 
> DevLog 
> > goes a long way, but if feels like legacy documents and links 
need 
> to 
> > be cleaned up.
> > 
> > I'd certainly be happy to lend a helping hand wherever able.
> > 
> > Thanks for the ear.
> > 
> > Rob
> >
> 
> Hello Rob,
> 
> Thanks for your compliments re the UKB.
> I would also like to mention Al, who is Hermans silent partner, and 
> Fred, who posted his work (IMO in it's rightful place) with a 
minimum 
> of fuss. Also we shouldn't forget that it is Tomasz who sponsors us 
> and also had the foresight to support Herman and I when we 
suggested 
> the UKB to him. 
> 
> Anyway - mainly I wanted to let you know that the DevLog, the two 
> KB's (including comments) and this site can be received as RSS 
feeds 
> (there's a post at the UKB about how to setup for it or to receive 
> RSS to your email). So the Devlog and the KB's are actually 
> consolidated and delivered to your door. The private Yahoo sites 
> aren't RSS enabled. So actually it is the bits and pieces pre RSS 
> that are out of alignment.
> 
> Also Tomasz was talking about a better (internal) AB search system?
> 
> I might be wrong but I think the UKB also doesn't figure in Google 
> searches etc which seems a pity.
> 
> I agree with your comments that consolidation of the legacy 
articles 
> etc would be good.
> 
> Brian_z
>




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