I totally agree!
I don't like HTML very much but I do like markdown which is why I love
modern static website builders like hugo https://gohugo.io/.
On 2020-05-08 10:30 AM, Tom Brennan wrote:
I've been making help-style web pages since about 2000, when my 5-year
old daughter pushed me to learn a bit about html. A small group of us
started a web server running on MVS at work, creating MVS doc web
pages with things like JCL examples, etc. that we as sysprogs could
point users to rather than explain the same information again and again.
I always thought web pages were best for doc for various reasons such
as: there is only one copy, they are read-only to the users, they can
link to other things, and importantly, people can bookmark an index or
a detail page as needed.
I got into various arguments with managers over the years about not
being consistent with the rest of the company in either platform or
style, and even chastised for having some "fun" web pages. In most
cases ignored their orders (i.e. "I'll do it, I'm working on it") to
move everything to company standards and servers.
I'm not sure if the developer.ibm.com issue is anything at all like I
went through, but it just riles me up when I hear about perfectly good
web sites being cleaned up, moved, removed, etc. possibly to satisfy a
manager who didn't like the look and feel or maybe the site
organization (which was all working fine before they looked).
So since I'm riled now and it's a beautiful sunset in California, I'm
going to walk the dog and never speak of this again :)
On 5/7/2020 7:02 PM, Cheryl Watson Walker wrote:
Hi all,
We'll I'm a little embarrassed. I was just told offline about a link
that Lionel Dyck posted here last October that described the coming
of the calamity that just occurred -
https://developer.ibm.com/dw-connections-sunset-faq/. (As a side note
– the creators of that FAQ weren’t even kind enough to create hot
links for all of the other portals. Web pages and hot links aren’t
all that difficult people!) The FAQ said that owners of content on
DeveloperWorks could move their content to other locations by the end
of March. This is assuming that they were still employed by IBM and
had the time to move the content. Of course, IBM could not provide
them with the original content.
We had posted almost 100 links in our Tuning Letter to useful
material on DeveloperWorks and now none of them work. It will take
time, but I hope to go through all of our links and reach out to the
authors to find where they are now posting items.
So I went to the new website - https://www.ibm.com/community/, signed
up, and started looking at it. With the optional portals listed in
the FAQ and this new community website, it just seems like IBM wants
to remove as much technical information as possible and replace it
with marketing. If anyone knows how to search the new community
website, please let me know. If I’m not ready to buy a product, the
community is not doing anything for me.
P.S. – Aled – thanks for your post. I have always had the highest
respect for Timothy and Mark, and I really appreciate how much they
support the customers.
Still a little bitter about the deletions…
Cheryl
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Subject: IBM Developerworks is gone!
Hi all,
Remember when IBM went through and deleted from their websites what
they considered "old" manuals and documentation? Well, they just did
it again! They've removed all the DeveloperWorks articles that have
provided such excellent information since its creation. And these
aren't just OLD articles. Even a link from three months ago is gone.
All references to DeveloperWorks are now directed to a nothing site.
The DeveloperWorks website contained amazing articles from some of
the top developers in their fields, many of whom are no longer still
working at IBM. We understand that IBM "furloughed" them, but they
don't have to furlough their ideas.
I'm pleading with all of you who work for a large IBM customer to ask
your management to tell IBM to stop this idiotic practice. There is
NO reason to delete valuable information.
If this is due to marketing wanting a new image, then they have no
idea what image they're creating.
Please do this for all of us!
All my best,
Cheryl Watson
Watson & Walker, Inc.
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