[DUG] General Theory

[James Sugrue]

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: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] 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