You have google, you have docs on whatever you are working with. Figure out the solution for yourself. Worst case you can't, but you might learn something else while trying.Depending on what you rae doing you might find some mailing lists, forums, or other dedicated communities.
oh, and there is always the person sitting a few feet away.
Not in particular. I appreciate the suggestion of the official documentation. I do need to rtfm, however after that I will be looking for further examples and explanation. Oh, but if there is any useful tooling I should be aware of that would be quite helpful.
I was struggling with something recently. Gave up and went to eat. I was standing in line and googling around a bit and blammo in the documentation ... right there, as if it was written for me was a paragraph saying how to do the thing I kept dorking up word for word.
If I had just taken the time to read that software's instructions past page 3... but nope I didn't.
Perhaps we just consult different documentation as time goes on... RTFM is most often directed at people who have an easy answer waiting for them in the documentation, but lazily asked a newsgroup/list/etc. to solve their problems instead as a first step.
Realistically, does it have to be read-write? I'm at the knowledge level where I can navigate my way around most things I need to without having to ask questions that haven't been asked already. RTFM has been drilled into me by online communities since my teens, and SO is to me exactly that "TFM".
You have google, you have docs on whatever you are working with. Figure out the solution for yourself. Worst case you can't, but you might learn something else while trying.Depending on what you rae doing you might find some mailing lists, forums, or other dedicated communities.
oh, and there is always the person sitting a few feet away.
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