Re: Is the list dead?

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:24 PM, ricardophp <[email protected]> wrote=
:
> The list is not dead, the list serves exactly for this, spread out new
> tecnologies and uses for PHP language and PHP groups to show enterprises
> that PHP is a mature and reliable technology, just like you did, you just
> show another php user group in which people support each other for free.

Good to know!

> But I guess to seek out help for you community it would be better to post=
 a
> message in the "General user list" there is a lot of people which could b=
e
> helpful, both newbies and wizards.
>
> cheers.
>
> /**
> =C2=A0* @analist Ricardo Striquer (ricardophp yohoocombr)
> =C2=A0* @var T=C3=A9cnico em PDD
> =C2=A0* @see http://www.programabrasil.org
> =C2=A0* @see http://twitter.com/rstriquer
> =C2=A0*/

Some clarifications:

It's not my community - it's a community I belong to, but I'm not
responsible for - just a regular member, not a moderator or anything
like that (if that's what you meant, ignore this).

I am not actually seeking help, I only suggested Programmers SE as
fertile ground for evangelizing PHP. What better way to promote our
beloved language than providing expert answers to people with PHP
questions?

To make it a little bit more general: I think a great way of
evangelizing PHP would be to approach vibrant developer communities,
either as a formal group or individually, and present what's good
about PHP - in ways compatible with the community of course. Any
community of course, Programmers SE is just the one I'm familiar with.

This is the list of all my PHP related answers:

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/search?tab=3Drelevance&q=3Duser%3a2593=
6%20%5bphp%5d

Quite a few of those answers are on topics that I think are related to
what this list is about, some examples:

- How does PHP5 fare with earlier versions of the language -
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/120023/how-does-php5-fare-wi=
th-earlier-versions-of-the-language
- Progressing past CRUD applications in PHP? -
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/121071/progressing-past-crud=
-applications-in-php
- Evaluating PHP namespaces
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/118674/evaluating-php-namesp=
aces
- What is a good way to familiarize myself with php, coming from an
asp.net background? -
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/118063/what-is-a-good-way-to=
-familiarize-myself-with-php-coming-from-an-asp-net-backgr

I think my answers on all of the above are lacking. But they are the
top voted, and some are marked as the accepted answers. Considering
that googling for "php from asp.net background" shows my answer among
the first results, I consider the community trend setting. Every bit
of misinformation in there will hurt more than in other similar
places.

The way Stack Exchange works, every post (question or answer) is
editable by everyone, wiki style - even brand new users (with some
degree of moderation). So, you could go through my answers and weed
out everything that's not supposed to be there - or comment on stuff
I've written here and I'll update the answers.

Or don't go there at all. :) I think this is a good way of promoting
PHP, but I may be wrong, if you think so I'd be interested to hear
your thoughts and of course discuss every other possible way we could
actively promote PHP.