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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:04 am
by alvinphp
I am not a fan of the MSDN documentation as it is not easy to find just what you need. When you do a search you get back 30k results and unless you are a pro and knowing what keywords to search it can be duanting at times.
And though I use the PHP site mostly for my syntax questions, the hard part are those questions that go beyond syntax and that is where forums like this really come into play. You can't go to php.net and explain what you are building then ask what would be the best pattern for that situation.
Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:15 am
by MrPotatoes
alvinphp wrote:I am not a fan of the MSDN documentation as it is not easy to find just what you need. When you do a search you get back 30k results and unless you are a pro and knowing what keywords to search it can be duanting at times
i learned rather quickly as did all of the people in my school. perhaps it's your inability to do effective searches or you don't actually know what you're searching for...? the more you know the easier it'll be. i use the MSDN for basic C/C++ questions as well. even if i'm developing on a completely different platform
Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:14 am
by alvinphp
MrPotatoes wrote:perhaps it's your inability to do effective searches or you don't actually know what you're searching for...? the more you know the easier it'll be.
Sometimes I don't know what I am searching for so I take a stab using words to best describe what I want and many times the I get tens of thousands of results back. If I am looking for a specific function then that is a no brainer to find.
Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:03 am
by RobertGonzalez
I tried using the MSDN docs once. Nearly puked. Gave up on it and learned from a book.
As for PHP, the PHP manual is open on my system almost as soon as I open a browser. The user comments rock, the (somewhat) clearly presented examples rock, and the development community, as a whole, rocks. I have never gotten answers to ASP related questions on a forum like I have here. In fact, I think I have gotten better ASP answers here than I have at those forums

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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:08 am
by n00b Saibot
yeah DevNet rocks

Incidentally this was the very first forum that I joined. since then I have joined many but always this is the place that always felt like home. I love ya all

Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:21 am
by RobertGonzalez
We love you too n00b. I am a member of several other forums as well, but none compare to this one.
Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:26 am
by n00b Saibot
*hint: time for dishing out another of your raps

Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:30 am
by RobertGonzalez
Not today sweetie, I have a headache.
(but I might set to flow
on the go with bro
when I'm hot, like I'm not?,
cruising with n00b saibot)
Shooot
Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:32 am
by n00b Saibot
yo man!! gooooo

oh man! this is fun!!
ok let's move back into topic

hey where are the others?
Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:34 am
by RobertGonzalez
They're at msdn.com trying to understand the documentation...
Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:37 am
by n00b Saibot
Everah wrote:They're at msdn.com trying to understand the documentation...
why? what's wrong with it? it's plain english..

i didn't have any hard time getting that under...