I back this motion. There are countless programmers out there who keep looking for useful code but would not step forward to ask for it (eg on a list like this). Trust me - I used to be one of them. I spent days writing a tiff to bmp converter because I could not find what half a dozen others must have done before me.
Plus, newbies can learn much faster from examples. First look for something that does what you want, then look how it's done. It's much more efficient than experimenting until you found 99% of the side-effects, only to have the first stupid user stumble over the remaining percent that makes your beautiful programm squawk. We could also set up a wonderful knowledge base. Does anybody have experience on how to organise hints and questions (or how-to headlines) so that people can actually find something?
