http://www.programmingexamples.net/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=User%3ADaviddoriaUser:Daviddoria - Revision history2026-06-13T18:50:47ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.23.5http://www.programmingexamples.net/w/index.php?title=User:Daviddoria&diff=137&oldid=prevDaviddoria: Created page with '== About me == My website: http://www.rpi.edu/~doriad/ My blog: http://daviddoria.blogspot.com/ == Why did I make this site? == I am a frequent user of the c++ forum on daniweb…'2010-06-23T14:22:31Z<p>Created page with '== About me == My website: http://www.rpi.edu/~doriad/ My blog: http://daviddoria.blogspot.com/ == Why did I make this site? == I am a frequent user of the c++ forum on daniweb…'</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>== About me ==<br />
My website: http://www.rpi.edu/~doriad/<br />
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My blog: http://daviddoria.blogspot.com/<br />
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== Why did I make this site? ==<br />
I am a frequent user of the c++ forum on daniweb.com (http://www.daniweb.com/forums/forum8.html). <br />
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On this forum, at least once a week someone will ask "How do I sort an array?". Rather than a member having to explain how to store the elements, where to find the sort function, etc every time this happens, I recommended that we should simply add an entry to an examples database called "Sorting an array" and spend the few minutes that we would have spent explain it to a single person writing a brief description paragraph and some code that demonstrates a typical use case. This database/wiki of frequently asked questions and answers should provide short code in compilable form.<br />
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I recently did this same thing for an open source project I work on (http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples) and it has reduced the daily work of members on the mailing list enormously. Once the database gets to a reasonable size (which doesn't actually take that long with lots of people helping!), an astonishing number of questions can now be answered in a single line reply - a link to one of these examples. When a question has not been seen before, if someone thinks that it is general enough to be useful in the future, it is added to the database. With 3/4 of a million members, these example databases (with the right overseeing) could quickly turn DaniWeb into not only a forum, but the main internet source of programming knowledge!<br />
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[[User:Daviddoria|Daviddoria]] 14:22, 23 June 2010 (UTC)</div>Daviddoria