Posting Articles vs. Projects
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I'm seeing some articles that over a period of months and years have evolved into ongoing projects. The purpose of an article is to describe a specific technique, approach or solution to a problem. Except for corrections and minor revisions - it is fairly static in content and will eventually become obsolete over (a possibly long) time. A project is a complete working program or library. The article text is more or less a "how-to" of how to use the program or library. As the code improves, the article text must be revised to correctly reflect new behavior. The article becomes a living document where any draft is a snapshot in time of where the project stood in its evolution. My question - is posting a project style article on CodeProject a good thing? Might some of the project-articles fair better somewhere like SourceForge? One main benefit of SF is visibility of source revisions - including the article text - via the CVS or SVN repository feature of that site. I seeing some of the same articles pop up over and over again. I can't tell if they are minor typo fixes, minor bug fixes, or contain significant new content (ie. is the article worth re-reading?). I can easily see the value of a "how to" article that links to an SF hosted project. :rose: Ideas?
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I'm seeing some articles that over a period of months and years have evolved into ongoing projects. The purpose of an article is to describe a specific technique, approach or solution to a problem. Except for corrections and minor revisions - it is fairly static in content and will eventually become obsolete over (a possibly long) time. A project is a complete working program or library. The article text is more or less a "how-to" of how to use the program or library. As the code improves, the article text must be revised to correctly reflect new behavior. The article becomes a living document where any draft is a snapshot in time of where the project stood in its evolution. My question - is posting a project style article on CodeProject a good thing? Might some of the project-articles fair better somewhere like SourceForge? One main benefit of SF is visibility of source revisions - including the article text - via the CVS or SVN repository feature of that site. I seeing some of the same articles pop up over and over again. I can't tell if they are minor typo fixes, minor bug fixes, or contain significant new content (ie. is the article worth re-reading?). I can easily see the value of a "how to" article that links to an SF hosted project. :rose: Ideas?
You should probably post this in the lounge, as it would get more attention. This is the bullshit forum...
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I'm seeing some articles that over a period of months and years have evolved into ongoing projects. The purpose of an article is to describe a specific technique, approach or solution to a problem. Except for corrections and minor revisions - it is fairly static in content and will eventually become obsolete over (a possibly long) time. A project is a complete working program or library. The article text is more or less a "how-to" of how to use the program or library. As the code improves, the article text must be revised to correctly reflect new behavior. The article becomes a living document where any draft is a snapshot in time of where the project stood in its evolution. My question - is posting a project style article on CodeProject a good thing? Might some of the project-articles fair better somewhere like SourceForge? One main benefit of SF is visibility of source revisions - including the article text - via the CVS or SVN repository feature of that site. I seeing some of the same articles pop up over and over again. I can't tell if they are minor typo fixes, minor bug fixes, or contain significant new content (ie. is the article worth re-reading?). I can easily see the value of a "how to" article that links to an SF hosted project. :rose: Ideas?
This is a soft discussion and hence befits Lounge rather than Soapbox which is targetted at aggressive debating.
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