Re: Is there a tutorial/sample for displaying...
Re: Is there a tutorial/sample for displaying...
- Subject: Re: Is there a tutorial/sample for displaying...
- From: Joseph Feld <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 02:08:33 -0400
on 5/16/02 12:09 AM, Scot Gellock at email@hidden wrote:
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For the folks who answered my question, thanks for your help. To the folks
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who I managed to annoy, I apologize. That was not my intension. To the
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person who provided the set of links to search before asking on the list,
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thank you. That was very helpful. I'll certainly look there in the future
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before I ask on the list again. Dave Dowling, thanks for defending me.
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That was very kind of you.
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In doing a search of developer.apple.com for 'cocoa sheets' the first 7
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links were not helpful. The 8th one though, well, if I'd read the 8th link
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at the bottom of the page, I could have saved myself the verbal beating.
It was rather interesting, and a little disheartening, to see how many
people responded just to say little more than how annoyed they were at
having to respond. What I find really discouraging is how some people seem
to be starting to feel the need to post their resume before they dare to ask
their question. How sad is that?
I think some people need to realize that Cocoa is still an environment with
a very limited user-base, though it's one with a lot of promise; but without
the continued addition of "newbies" it's never going to realize it's
potential (OpenDoc anyone?). Cut too many of them off and you risk cutting
your own throat. It seems that Apple realizes this (thanks, John! <G>).
RTFM answers are one thing in a classroom where your time is precious and
every delay takes away from the total content of the class, but on a mailing
list where participation is at one's discretion they're nonsensical. It's
been my experience on developers lists like this that most people do try the
documentation first, but for a variety of reasons, not the least of which
being that sometimes they don't have a clear idea of what they should be
looking for, their search didn't pan out. Sometimes they do post without
checking the archives or the docs. So what? Don't reply. Better yet,
reply with an answer and a gentle reminder about the archives or where to
find further information on their question. Consider the time it takes your
way of giving something back to a community that's helped you get to the
skill level you're at now.
Joe
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Joseph Feld
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"You have the right to bear arms and the right to arm bears...whatever the
hell you wanna do."--Robin Williams
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