You're right, helping people with their immediate problem is important, and I actually did provide him with a link that should answer his questions, so I wasn't saying "go away, do your homework" at all.
Still, research is a key skill for a developer, no matter the technology or learning-state you are in. Whatever, wrong place for that topic. EOD IMHO. Am 14.08.2013 14:57, schrieb Carlos Velasco: > I think at the moment new people coming to flex world is to be welcomed > rather than being someway thrown away by a "rude" "Make your homework first > and search the Internet properly before asking nonsense, please"... > > I have always found those kind of forum responses quite useless... When > someone doesn't know about something, he/she also doesn't know what to look > for or where to find exactly the contents that may make they pass their > learning curve. > > So let's take some tolerance with newbies and try to guide them instead of > being so overbearing. Maybe not talking the same things again and again, > but giving them direct links to begin with or so. > > > 2013/8/14 dude <d...@atheist.com> > >>> Because I am new in flex, once I search some questions in google, I will >>> find most of them links will refer to the adobe site. >> >> How can you not check Wikipedia first if there is an article about Adobe >> or Apache Flex at all? I'm sure it answers most of your questions. Here, >> let me help you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Flex >> >> On a side note: So, is that how people start using new technologies >> nowadays? Going straight to the mailing list asking people about the >> most basic things? What about some research first? Usually you should >> read as much as possible of the available information on the internet >> yourself before you start asking questions like this. Wikipedia is >> usually a good starting point for that. >> Don't get me wrong, you will get answers here because people are nice >> and like to share their knowledge, this is what OSS is all about. But >> it's a PITA to answer such questions over and over again just because >> someone can't do the most basic online search. Some really weird >> research you got there ... >> >
