Request for Fergus, Herfried, Cor,Spink or other Masters

[scorpion53061]

I know this may sound strange but I wanted to throw this at you guys as you
seem to be the "framework" of this NG.

I think you guys are great at giving help. Thank you for the help you have
given me over the last year since I started in vb.net. It was my first
language and boy let me tell you getting started was rough(and still can
be!). But I hung in there.

Would you all be willing to consider taking a topic (for example regular
expressions) and then for a week that is the topic of a particular thread
with everyone chiming in what they know,examples, critiques of each others
work and those of us who don't could learn by listening and asking questions
related to this topic.

Why am I asking this? I just think sometimes we scratch the surface on
stuff. And I for one would love to see in depth discussion on a particular
topic that goes beyond the code snippet without explanation.

The regular Q & A that goes on could continue but there would be one thread
a week that that we all could learn more about a specific topic.

 

[Fergus Cooney]

Hi Scorpion,

Thank you for the compliment ;-)). I know you couldn't list everyone who
makes contributions here, but it's a shame to me that you missed Jay. He has
taught me much and I have great respect for him (despite camelCasing, lol).

Your idea is certainly an interesting one and I would be willing to add
what I could to the thread. Having a lot of related issues in a single thread
could be of great use for referring people to in due course, and for those
conducting an 'everything you wanted to know about' type of search.

The only downside that I can see is that I'll suddenly discover how little
I know after all!! ;-)) Seriously, though, 'in-depth' takes time and that
could be a limiting factor here.

I'll leave it up to you to create the format and what-have-you and we'll
see what develops. I imagine that question gets an answer which begets a
further question and so on. Maybe there will be lists. Questions may be
specific or fairly open although 'tell me all you know about xxx' may not get
the hoped-for response - being too 'big' to answer. I guess that there may be
a period of frenzy on a topic but that the activity would also tend to span a
fairly long time due to the question-think-answer-think-question cyle.

All-in-all, if this idea takes off it could be very good indeed.

Regards,
Fergus

ps. I will endeavour not to add off-topic posts to these threads, but can't
promise. ;-)

 

[scorpion53061]

You are right I should have mentioned Jay. No offense to him I hope!!

This is why I brought it to the giants of the ng. You see if a lightweight
like me tried to pull this together credibility would be a problem !!

But really the idea would be that no one person is responsible for the
discussion only that that happens to be the thread of the day(or week or
whatever). I would not want to pile more on you than you already have.

In addition, there are those regular contributors who have a specialty in
one particualr area (such as datagrids for instance) who could primarily
moderate the discussion on that particualr area.

Getting started.......hmmmm how do I go about doing that? I know I need you
guys to do it. But lets hear from the rest of you first to see if you are so
inclined and if you think this is a good idea.

Fergus you can post any thing you want you have earned it

 

[Cor]

Hi Scorpion,

I love that idea.

But on the other hand, sometimes that goes very automaticly.
You can see that. When someone ask a question about that topic, and the
thread reach in no time the bottom.



And like Fergus, thank you.

Cor

 

[_Andy_]

specific or fairly open although 'tell me all you know about xxx' may not get

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Rgds,

 

[scorpion53061]

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Rgds,

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

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ROFLM*O

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I know this may sound strange but I wanted to throw this at you guys as you
seem to be the "framework" of this NG.
Thanks!

The regular Q & A that goes on could continue but there would be one thread
a week that that we all could learn more about a specific topic.

That's a very good idea, but at the moment I don't have enough time to
concentrate on a topic... Lot of work...

;-)

 

[_Andy_]

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Just my filthy mind at work!