I believe DUG is, has been, and should be a place to ask questions. Like you say, not the ones a quick Google could fix, but curly ones that a bunch of Delphi developers may have encountered before and can help with.
After that it should be a community to share ideas, get advice and Network. Ideally along with this list, there should be UG meetings, but I think these have been tried before with little success. I think if we could post code and have constructive criticism or debate, then it would be great. I don't do enough day to day coding in Delphi at the moment to post anything useful, but would gladly offer my opinion! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyley Harris Sent: Friday, 12 May 2006 8:31 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: RE: [DUG] General Theory Well. I have certainly stirred some discussion. I think that these things are completely ON TOPIC for the following reason which I think everyone who cares should consider replying, or reply and say you don't give a toss. What is the purpose and nature of the DUG. 1/Is the place you go because you are too lazy to GOOGLE for 5 minutes? 2/Is it a social gathering of people who like Delphi as a primary tool for win32? (anyone who advocates it for .net must be in love ) 3/Should it be a peer group where information is being submitted for discussion and informative reasons between a group of peers? 4/ A place for discourse on the Nature of the Universe? Good peer user groups ( personal opinion heavily inserted ) follow more along the lines of "Heres a solution to something that's been bugging me for days, does anyone else have this issue or a better solution" as opposed to "How do I... How do I.... etc etc." which should be the last resort after help files, google files etc. Sometimes a question is asked that makes you feel like doing research because it sounds interesting. But a lot of the time the answer should be "google it" When I posed my little protons question I got 3 interesting answers. 1/Wayne: Kyley's gone loopy (Possibly accurate) 2/Neven: Directed me to a book. (That's a good call, because it means I'll learn something along the way. Kind of like Teaching a Man to fish" 3/Alister: An Answer, (useful in the short moment, but its like feeding a man for a day, "insanity making me misquote the bible". In ten minutes I'd be asking another related question) In short. Without knowing if I was taking the piss or serious, Nevens' was the most practical answer, because it provides me the information as a peer to seek more information without bothering him again for something small. So. VOTE UP. What is DUG? A weekend exercise. :D _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
