[ic] Before You Begin

[Justin Bonds]

HA! . . . always pretty amusing comments Jim . .

:)  Justin




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> [mailto:interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Jim
> Balcom
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 6:09 PM
> To: interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [ic] Before You Begin
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>
> On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, john j wrote:
>
> jj>>I've been trying to learn IC for almost 2 weeks, but I
> jj>>still don't know where to start and how to program it.
> jj>> Compared to when I first learned Perl for 2 week, I
> jj>>could write almost all any perl scripts.
> jj>>
>
> jj>>Well, I agree that IC has poor documentation.  I read
> jj>>all 4 books and still has no idea how to develop it.
>
> IC has a very steep learning curve. It is NOT a 'plug-n-play' piece of
> software. And, unless you are running an on-line hardware store, it is
> useless right out of the box without you making some personalizing changes
> to it.
>
> It's not like going to the store and buying Excel and going home and
> installing it and setting up your bookeeping on it.
>
> This is like someone handing you Excel along with the source code for free
> (legally) and allowing you to go in and make changes to Excel's
> fundamental
> methods of operating. Like, perhaps making it be able to import a Nintendo
> game file, allowing you to change it, and then writing it back out to the
> Game Boy (I think that it's called).
>
> IC is not something that you are going to learn overnight, or even in 2
> weeks. If you are looking for that kind of instant gratification,
> then this
> is not the right place.
>
>
> jj>>What do you think?  How long did it take you to learn
> jj>>IC, ITL tag, etc?  How much experience of Perl do you
> jj>>need for IC?
>
> You don't need any Perl experience. IC does not require Perl knowledge. It
> requires Perl to run, but you can build a store and run it with
> no knowledge
> of Perl.
>
> It DOES require knowledge of HTML, as well as ITL.
>
> I spent 6 months getting my store up and running and on-line. In
> a previous
> life I was a computer programmer. In this life and for what I
> need the store
> for I am a retailer, a merchant. I'm busy processing orders and shipping
> them out. So, building my IC store was something that I did when business
> slowed down a bit. Even at that, all that I did was to take the 'Construct
> Something' demo and make a few changes here and there so that I could sell
> diapers out of it.
>
> If you need some instant gratification and something that will run out of
> the box, there are e-commerce solutions that are much easier to
> install and
> to configure and to get up and running to make money for you. Richie Carey
> has his commerce.cgi which is an excellent store operation, and it is also
> free. The only other e-commerce package that I have found that will even
> come close to this package costs $5,000.00.
>
> An alternative is that there are several people on this list that hire out
> to do this type of consulting work. You've gotten the software
> for free, so
> spending some money on assistance still makes a good deal economically.
> (This is not a plug for hiring me. I don't know enough yet about this to
> hire out, nor do I have the time, nor the patience, to to the work!)
>
> jj>>Do You Yahoo!?
>
> I tried that once and got thrown in jail for the weekend!
>
> -= Jim =-
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