On 5/3/05, Dennis Debro <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You know, I was going to right a lot more, but I realized I had
nothing much to add to what you wrote, I agree with you on most
everything.
> Hmmm...now that I think about it could I be part of the problem? What I mean
> by that is if I just work on my projects outside of [stella] and just post
> when they're done, then I'm not contributing either. I'd rather post
> completed projects or projects at a certain milestone vs. hitting the list
> with minor updates.
Well, there are kind of 2 ways of posting, with many people in between:
* people who are solid enough that they just post to let interested
parties follow along the progress, and maybe generate buzz
* people who are a little more unsteady, and need to ask either simple
seeming questions and "hey could someone take a look at this code, I'm
stumped"
For the former, a web diary can be an interesting supplemant tho that,
though you'd probably want to post on something like AA to remind
people of the journal...in general I think AA is better for minor
updates, [stella] for the more major ones.
I personally have big doubts about archive diving for learning
things...at least the basics...I think both my 2600 101 and Andrew
Davies' work is a much better bet. And for advanced questions it
might be hard to get a search query just right to get you to the
relevant info. (I value [stella] archives much more for the milestone
alphas and betas posted, and all those little demos...)
--Kirk
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