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This is more to satisfy my curiousity than anything else, but what languages have the best (or worst) documentation and support communities (including IRC, mailing lists, USENET groups, websites, forums, etc)?
Started by Thomas Owens on
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The languages that are used....
I also think that the new (not sure how new it really is, but I came across it a few weeks ago) MSDN for the .NET family has a good community built around it.
I think Sun did a good job with Javadoc and the Java APIs .
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Often, a language won't have its own community, or the "official" community isn't the most popular one. For all the languages you use, what is your favorite place to visit (besides SO!) for help - or just plain discussion/complaints?
EDIT: Just based ...
Started by coppro on
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Personally, when coding C++, the best place I've found for discussion and help is ##c++ on freenode... .
Perl Monks is a great resource for Perl, questions usually get answered quickly and there are a number of high-profile Perl hackers that frequent the site .
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We are building an app that we want to add social networking like features too. Our first thought was to take an open source social networking platform or a cms with community features and drop our app into it. It seems that most of these platforms seem...
Started by Jay Askren on
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Not ideal, but like you say most are based on the the 'Facebook' model such as Elgg (http://elgg... .
Take a look at Wordpress mu (http://mu.wordpress.org/) for 'subnetworks' and maybe BuddyPress (http://buddypress.org/) for adding social networking features .
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Ask your Facebook Friends
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What features do you think can help foster creating an online community.
From my own observation i think what is needed:
community involvement
(let people contribute to the community by giving them control on the community, for example able to vote stuff...
Started by paan on
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But this is a guy that was building web communities of Groups Communities, Audiences....
Spolsky: Oh, well that's sort of one of the classics for community, and it's a little outdated.
Design such that communities can get created.
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One problem I have with open-source is not often the product or documentation, but the level of community involvement and support. Response time for some questions on official forums can take more than a week, which can honestly make a big difference ...
Started by hal10001 on
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Most communities will have good support networks available in one manner or another.
In the community.
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If I am writing non-free software and I want to involve GPL software to some degree, and I am not sure what my legal situation is with respect to whether the GPL allows me to distribute my code, should I ask the programming community what to do?
What ...
Started by jhs on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
You should ask the owner.
Programming communities like Stack Overflow for licensing advice?
NO.
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I'd like to write a console or winforms application that will interact with the EPiServer database. Since I don't want to muck about in the deep inards of the database I'd like to use the EPiServer API.
However, all the examples are using the "CommunitySystem...
Started by henriksen on
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The key (besides having disabled execution and database timeouts) has been to run it through Internet Explorer... .
I've had no problems at all running huge imports through a web form (or control) .
But...
I'm not that familiar with the community model.
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[INTRODUCTION]
In order to help clean up the constant mess of members posting their unique, albeit numerous, communities, I've made this thread.
In this thread, you can post whatever communities you have created, and they will be added to this first post...
Started by Sepharos on
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by 10 people.
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Someone create a "Screw.
Announcing their own communities, it should help keep the MK7 section clean.
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We're evaluating a potential investment opportunity to port our J2ME applications from English/UK to Far Eastern markets. We're having trouble finding ANY information about things such as handsets, platforms, etc., and in particular, operator/carrier ...
Started by Josh on
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by 4 people.
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I´ve ported some applications to Korean and Hebrew, so my advice is this:
Get in contact with service provider in the market you wish enter, they can give you plenty of information about handsets and distribution... .
J2ME is pretty much supported everywhere.
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I understand, that most of the research communication in the field of AI is still done in the form of white papers, and conferences; but I refuse to believe there's nobody on the internet talking about it.
So, I'd like to know what kind of forums / mailing...
Started by Silver Dragon on
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The downside is that many items are for premium members... .
It has an active forum, a lot of articles and they go into the gritty details of most items .
That is if you're into those sort of things.
There is a great AI Game Developer community here.
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