Help Needed -- Build Your Portfolio

Subject: Help Needed -- Build Your Portfolio
From: John -dot- Gilger -at- snwa -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 08:57:25 -0700



For those who would like to develop a portfolio, learn cutting edge
applications (or more established mature apps), you assistance is needed.
The following is an extract from a conversation on another list:
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As noted in past articles, it is my experience that proprietary software
products are MUCH better documented than open source (with a good example
found in Microsoft's MSDN web site). I propose that this is due to the
volunteer nature of most open source software development. Volunteers tend
to contribute the kind of work they find interesting, and take it from me,
developers HATE documentation. I hate documentation, and I write articles
on a regular basis.

from this article.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107_2-5210765.html

I venture to say that responding by how bad MS documentation is a waste of
time even if true.  But perhaps the open source community could recruit
English majors to write documentation.  And if you can get an English major
to understand the functionality you can probably get anybody to.  (they are
smart, just not technical)  Also, by giving their names prominent display
some may even volunteer.
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Any takers?

John Gilger
Publications Specialist
Parsons Water & Infrastructure
(702) 862-3488



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