Re: Documentation Newbie Blah, blah, blah
Re: Documentation Newbie Blah, blah, blah
- Subject: Re: Documentation Newbie Blah, blah, blah
- From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 22:01:41 -0500
On Friday, November 9, 2001, at 06:39 PM, Brian Hook wrote:
Okay everybody, let's chill the hell out. Erik has done a lot for the
community, both writing technical papers and helping out scads of people
on this mailing list.
Erik: I think what most of us newbies are taking issue with is the
implication that we're lazy (i.e. we "refuse" to learn Cocoa the "hard"
way). We're not, and the specific reasons many of us are having
problems vary (as you point out), but in the end it just comes down to
one thing:
Knowing Erik, I don't think for a minute that he meant that as a
massive generalization.
Infact, it could probably be taken an narrowed directly into two
small particle fields.
A persistant user who NEVER looks up details, and instead whines
about how the documentation is dumb.... this goes back months and
months, and it was a post of this type that seems at the root of this
particular rant.
second, the same questions being asked again, and again, and
again. As a prime example it must have been four times in the last week
alone that the same question has been asked about how to make a document
app not start with an untitled document. Each time it was answered..
and yet it was ask again anyways.
I've offered on a number of occassions to set up an FAQ for the
macosx-dev group, soliciting FAQs, but get none.
So.. once again.. send FAQs (with answers if possible) to
email@hidden
I don't see the experts here saying 'god, what a dumb question'.
He do however see them (and myself) getting frustrated by those who
NEVER look anywhere, always blame the documentation.
It woudl be GREAT if there was more sample code, with better
indexing of it. This is the type of thing that I'd LOVE to have a
full-time gig doing.. (Ron? You listening?)