Hello jdporter,

personally I love to help here, then I know my limits and I know I'm not such a geek, so generally I tend to specificate this with sentences like: "I'm not an expert on this.." or "waiting for wiser monks answers.." et similia

I dont tend to correct others too much: I know there are here around monks and nuns with deeper and cristalline understanding of the programming art and of the IT world in general.

Sometimes I'm able to summon wiser monks just mentioning a specific Module::Name or adding something in the title of the reply.

Being more an amateur than a professional programmer I'm used to offer my solutions like personal suggestions.

I also point people to other monks answers from past posts, answers that I consider authoritative in some way.

Many times I integrate answers by others if I see some unexplored possibility. Or I offer a oneliner. If I shot in the dark (I'm lucky in this ;) I state it clearly.

How I get help for my own problems? I found PM perfect for small-to-medium questions and generally not so good for larger questions or more meditative ones: people have not too much time to spend and you must be smart proposing the question in a short but comprehensive way: runnable code, test data, desired output, links to external resources...

Here we are monks seeking monkhood, so the above mentioned trick is left to poorminded, mundane congregations.

L*

There are no rules, there are no thumbs..
Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.

In reply to Re: How to get programming help by Discipulus
in thread How to get programming help by jdporter

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