RBDevZone has had a wiki for some time, but it is built using DotNetNuke and the wiki in there is pretty weak. I was happy to see that today, Charles Yeomans, REALbasic guru and fellow REALbasic Developer Magazine columnist, has created a wiki (using MediaWiki) for REALbasic. From his blog posting:
The goal is to collect documentation of the language and framework that goes beyond what Real Software could provide. Things like platform-specific behavior, or tricks and traps that ensnare the new or unwary are unlikely to make it into any official documentation. To offer one example, when are control references in a window non-nil? As it turns out, Mac OS X and Linux behave quite differently. This sort of thing is hard to know in advance, and it could change over time.
Anyone can read the wiki, but you’ll need to create an account to edit. My intention is to keep the content focused on documentation, so please save discussions of Real Software’s business and development practices, Mac v. Windows debates, etc. for other forums. I’d like to ensure that the content remains available even if I don’t; I would be especially interested if someone would figure out how to do that. It looks like there are ways to dump mediawiki content.
Go forth and create content!