Re: Developing frameworks and applications in tandem and managing dependencies

On 2012-08-01 04:15, Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
> 
> No worries. To be honest I think email lists in general are a dying breed - the only one I know of that's thriving is accu-general (http://accu.org/index.php/mailinglists/).
> 
> The CodeProject Lounge is the other obvious hang out place - and that seems to be as busy as ever.

I just want a niche edgy community loaded with smart and knowledgeable
people like the OT list used to be. I don't want to drown in gigabytes
of average content.

I'm reinventing myself as an "open source" programmer using LAMP (Linux,
Apache, MySQL and PHP) technology so I've joined the MediaWiki and
WordPress hackers lists, but in practice I don't keep up with them. The
whole idea of an "off-topic" list appeals to me, I don't like the idea
of topics being off limits in a conversation. I think a conversation
should just go where it flows naturally to.

I don't know why I hang out on a Windows programming list, I don't even
do Windows programming any more (except when I can't avoid it (I
actually wonder what the future will bring in that regard, will I
succeed as a LAMP developer or be forced back in to C# programming. I'm
in the process of negotiating with one of my clients now to rewrite
their whole LoB system currently on .NET/SQL Server in PHP/MySQL -- I
hope they come at it, I'm so much more productive in PHP than ASP.NET)). :P

I have the mailing lists at ProgClub but one of the problems there is
that there are so few members with so many programming languages between
them. And it's small. And people don't have the time. Building
communities is a lot of hard work (but it is its own reward).

They hey-day for the OT list was when everyone was learning C# together
but now everyone either knows C# inside out and backwards (they probably
even think they know what IDisposable is for) or isn't even using it any
more (like me).

I hope mailing lists don't die, I much prefer them to web sites with
forum software. There's something egalitarian and conversational about
mailing lists that I enjoy.

Anyway, I'll keep posting to the OT list whenever I can think of
something to talk about. Like subverting facebook by introducing
interloping baby boomers: http://faceboom.us/ :)

I really should just do some actual work some time soon. :P