Re: Flame retardant
Re: Flame retardant
- Subject: Re: Flame retardant
- From: Brock Brandenberg <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:29:28 -0500
Hi all.
Now to add some constructive ideas to this topic.
Cocoa.mamasam.com has been invaluable to me because of the threading of
the messages and because the search engine actually works, unlike
Apple's (Apple's result snippets are pretty much useless, and does
boolean searching or quoting of phrases even work there with that HTML
dig thing?). I can find something on nearly any topic with little
trouble because it has the resources and I know how to search, but many
newbies don't know how to search well and obviously some don't even try.
Bertrand's new directory brings up an idea which could help the repeated
newbie question. The list has a number of message threads that have
excellent answers to many topics. Would you consider it a decent idea to
design a directory or table of contents that lists these topics in a
manner that mimics Apple's doc organization? Each topic entry could
either be a link to the first message(s) of a thread or a link that is a
query itself that extracts the relevant results. We could of course add
new entry listings to make up for Apple's weakenesses, inserting topics
where they are sorely needed. The concept is similar to the C++ FAQ book
that you can buy at the bookstore. It's a composition of FAQs that is
invaluable as a C++ developer. The author(s) have organized it
reasonably well so you can locate useful info relatively quickly.
As a more experienced developer, if someone handed me an outline like
Apple's Cocoa Documentation page and asked me to find matching topics in
the lists, I bet I could pull 85% of the relevant topics out, given a
little bit of time, and with some help from a couple of other veterans,
I bet we could hit all the needed ones. This idea is geared strongly
toward Bertrand, and I would be glad to put in the time to work on it.
I'm trying to organize the knowledge that I've gained and give back to
the Cocoa community (right now in the way of articles on Cocoa Dev
Central) to make the docs better. It's a shame to have such an
incredible development environment, but have to work so hard sometimes
to find the answer to something that was just someone's oversight in the
Apple documentation or its organization.
Brock Brandenberg
----- industrial design @ bergdesign.com ------
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