What is Digg?22 Comments
- aseigo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12Since a few people have apparently missed the point, I figure I may as well provide some clarification:
First, TechBase is about high level technical documentation organized in a useful fasion. If you are a software developer, sys admin, etc you probably know just how valuable this kind of information is to getting (and learning how to get) things done. An example might be "how do you add a D-Bus interface to my application?" To answer that you could either read through source code (not overly efficient, and hopefully you find a good example to read), read API documentation which requires one to put the puzzle together out of the individual pieces themselves, or spend 10 minutes reading a tutorial that steps you through it. The latter is obviously what is wanted and what TechBase provides. The open source world tends to be pretty shoddy at making this information available, but we're in the process of changing that for KDE.
(Btw, if you're thinking "MSDN" right about now, you're on the right track.)
As for pageviews not being "newsworthy" well .. no kidding. It's called a 'hook': something interesting enough to start an article and grab attention. While silly, it tends to get more people reading what you write even if the hook has little to do with the actual message you eventually get to. The message in this article isn't 1,000,000 page views, it's about what TechBase is and how it works. - SeattleGaucho, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I looked for this kind of information on their site some time ago and couldn't find it as organized and to the level of detail I needed (intermediate) and couldn't find it. I ended diving into source code, figured out some things, but couldn't get anywhere useful and I abandoned the project. Starting for your link, in 5 minutes I found the exact class and methods I was looking for. Dugg the article and your clarification just because of that.
- littlebear, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5It did not say 1 million pages of information. They served the 1 millionth web page.
This is great news for all of us who use KDE. - lowerlogic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5What's that I see? Oh, it's a search bar!
- ninjacob, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Shouldn't it be teKbase?
- peregrine, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4You dunce did you read the thing at all?
"echbase already has over 80 cross-referenced tutorials and some 2,200 pages --organised by topic and skill level--."
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So yes who WOULD want to sort through a million pages when you've got them all organized right their for you. - jopsen, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I've looked at it, and it really seams better than the wiki they had earlier... I know much of the content is the same, but it's been reorganized, and a lot of new stuff has been added...
- sqrt7744, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2deadowl: that's one of the funniest post's I've read in a while. I mean, after barely even skimming the title and clearly not understanding it you felt obliged to post a comment so fundamentally missing the point and so clearly wrong that I'm beginning to think I just may have found Dubya's long lost cousin! (still dugg you down though, sorry)
- schoate09, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1http://img484.imageshack.us/img484/6409/ronaldmcgtfoir1.jpg
- Soapdish, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1It's useful for beginning developers. With the number of KDE developers increasing, I'm sure they appreciate the technical documentation.
- Soapdish, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I'm gonna give deadowl the benefit of the doubt, and assume he was joking.
- elkos, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1People might access the "KDE Techbase" to get involved with the project. They may be developers, translators or just enthusiasts.
- Kulik, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1That's definitely not the case, you read the documentation even before you consider actually programming something. Even before you set your environment to code for KDE4.
- ElitistSnob, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2In other news, Procter & Gamble announced that Charmin toilet paper has wiped its 100 billionth ass today.
That's the only metaphor I could think of to illustrate the irrelevancy of this digg. - Ignathius, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2no kiddin. what's next, a front page story about how someone figured out how to put a banner graphic at the top of a webpage?
- somegeologist, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Or was it 1000 people hitting it 1000 times looking for some hidden Man page.
- cr3ative, on 10/11/2007, -7/+3This really, really isn't news. Pageviews mean very little.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1In other news, this is ***** retarded.
- postaldave, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1why would you be reading "technical documentation" unless you have a problem?
should you be proud that is was needed a million times?
BTW:i love and use KDE, just not sure this is a good thing. - deadowl, on 10/11/2007, -14/+5I'm a fan of KDE, but who would want to sort through a million pages?
- specialK16, on 10/11/2007, -10/+1Gnome ftw! KDE ftl!
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