What kind of editors is an excellent editor? Let me tell you a story about an excellent editor.
Currently, Rails is very popular. Many developers who were actually engaging in Java development, but they have now begun to develop on rails by ruby. In China , there are many developers love rails. Meanwhile, a lot of community support Rails, is one of them.
Phase 3 of the programmer magazine has a feature, it is about the ROR. Whether or magazine publish house, we should be very sensitive to the emerging technology. The trend of ROR is the focus of Broadview which we are concerning all the time. The topic of ROR in Programmer of phrase 3 is organized by Ouyang Jing. He has recognized many experts in this subject. For share these resources with him, I called on him and asked him some questions.
Ouyang told me the whole process about the matter. He told me that a writer has written an article about ROR. However, the first article which he hand out to Ouyang was very bad and have no content. Nevertheless, Ouyang thought that the author has very rich experience from his article. Then, Ouyang according to his own ideas, he gave a lot of advices to the author based on the original manuscript.
The advice which Ouyang gave the author is very good and it can guide the author to write an excellent article. I did not the details of the original manuscript. But I have seen the articles which modified by Ouyang which also added a marker. Ouyang also told me the details how he led the author to write it better. I was very surprised, and also very much admired Ouyang. Ouyang, if not an outstanding editor, he could not give so many good advices to the author. The author could not take such good articles dedicated to the vast number of readers.
Sometimes we are lucky, because the original manuscript of the authors is very terrific. Sometimes we are unfortunate, some of the experts are very brilliant but have no experience about writing. In this condition, we should help them. When we are facing with authors who are no writing experience and we can give them appropriate advice to help them write good articles. Then we can be considered a qualified editor.
