<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Pedro:<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 17 Mar 2007, at 13:07, Pedro Del Gallego wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; min-height: 17.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Any comment or advices will be really appreciate</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>First piece of advice: don't assume that the people judging your proposal will be experts in Rails, Seaside and CRUD. You can assume that they will be smart, well-educated computer scientists, but not that they are experts in any particular piece of technology. So, your proposal will have to explain what the problem is that you aim to solve, why the problem is a problem, and what you plan to do about it. Describe the end-state that you want to get to, and why it will be good. One good way to do this is by me means of a concrete example. Say what programming the example like now, and what it will be like when you succeed.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Second, you propose to build a tool for others to use. You say that at preent there is a steep learning curve, because people have to read the documentation for Seaside, and how seaside works is not clear. (I agree with this.) So you have to convince us that you can do better. This means that you have to convince us that you are able to write good documentation, in English The best way to to do so is to write a really clear and easy to follow proposal!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Third, if you have local Squeak programmers in Granada, can you get one of them to agree to help you get started with Squeak. It is different from many other IDEs; without a local expert, you will waste a lot of time at first and get frustrated. Pairing for a week or so, for 3 or 4 hours per day, with a Squeak-savvy colleague, will be a really good investment.</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Andrew</DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Andrew P. Black</DIV><DIV>Department of Computer Science</DIV><DIV>Portland State University</DIV><DIV>+1 503 725 2411</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>