Since Allan has asked for suggestions to improve the examples in his upcoming release I thought I would kick it off in a new thread.
First of all, the examples are a lot of "busy" work to get going. You have to create a database for whatever flavour of Server, and if you do not use MySQL then you might have some interpretation to do. My suggestion is to use Sqlite for all examples. You can create a very small and simple downloadable and usable database for the examples and the user can very simply run the code and play. Once they get it going the way they like this then is the template for their own chosen database.
I think it is imperative to have a fully working solution with no chance that a user can miss a required step or introduce an error in the creation process. A ground zero, guaranteed to work on any system would sure help with the learning process.
First of all, the examples are a lot of "busy" work to get going. You have to create a database for whatever flavour of Server, and if you do not use MySQL then you might have some interpretation to do. My suggestion is to use Sqlite for all examples. You can create a very small and simple downloadable and usable database for the examples and the user can very simply run the code and play. Once they get it going the way they like this then is the template for their own chosen database.
I think it is imperative to have a fully working solution with no chance that a user can miss a required step or introduce an error in the creation process. A ground zero, guaranteed to work on any system would sure help with the learning process.