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: "Erik J. Barzeski" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 11:32:49 -0400
On 5/15/02 11:17pm, "email@hidden"
<email@hidden> wrote:
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> I don't know whether this would help, but there are about 10
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> resources I use
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> when I don't have the answer to a Mac programming problem, and if we
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> just sent those 10 URLs to every new subscriber of this list, perhaps
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> it'd help some people and cut down on redundant list traffic. Also,
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> it's so much better to hear questions phrased as "I wanted to do X,
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> and I tried Y and Z, but they gave me these results instead of the
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> desired ones" rather than "how do you do X?" Half the time, when I'm
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> about to post to the mailing list, I start to write my question that
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> way, develop a small test case, and discover my problem in the process.
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>
these are excellent suggestions. i've emailed the admin on this
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list in the past, and he's a nice and helpful guy. maybe you could
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suggest these things to him. perhaps he'd agree to send an email
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to new subscribers outlining where to look for basic info, and how
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to solve one's own problems before approaching the list. that
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might cut down on the super-basic questions.
Seems quite reasonable to me as well. I must admit that I'm often jaded in
my way of thinking, having been on this Internet thing for some time, I am
almost always convinced every question has been answered and is archived
somewhere...
But, of course, that leaves no room for people who are new to the Internet
and don't know about Google, or the four or five Cocoa sites that could
greatly boost their abilities (I still maintain that you learn more from
solving a problem on your own than copying and pasting someone else's
code... Though the latter is obviously a good reference, the key word in
this being that you learn _more_ (I believe)).
At any rate, I second (third?) the idea of sending a list of URLs to new
subscribers, or listing them on the cocoa-dev sign-up page, or including
them at the bottom of every digest, or something...
--
Kindest regards,
Erik J. Barzeski
"Maybe fun is just fragments of existence with
Better packaging." - Apple CEO Steve Jobs, 1983
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