What do I like most about CodeBetter (referred to as CB from here on out)?
I like our small community. I like when I load up my rss reader there
shows up 4 or 5 or 6 posts and I know I want to read every one of them.
To me, it gets out of hand keeping up with 75 posts a day from
asp.net or 50 a day from
DNJ.
I only end up reading 15 or 25 out of a combined 125 a day between the
two just because I feel overwhelmed by the number of new posts. Many of
the posts are covering the same topic. Compounding this is the fact that I subscribe to close to 180 feeds.
We claim to be pretty good at what we do, always have room to grow and
things to learn, and believe we are providing good, meaty, valuable
content for the developer community, without a bunch of nonsense "guess
what my dog did today" type of posts. We are here for the benefit of
the developer community as a whole. We hope to provide you with good
content and ideas, and in return hope you provide us with valuable
feedback on that content and those ideas. Feedback is very important.
There is always someone out there who knows more about a topic that we
do, and you just might be one of those people, and we need to hear from
you.
We are all incredibly good looking and charming. Not that you can see that, you'll just have to take my word for it.
We collaborate, in a sense of the word. We read eachothers posts. We
build on eachothers ideas. This is evidenced clearly by posts such as
Eric Wise's post on
ASP .NET BasePages - Level 100, which was continued with added value by
myself and
Brendan Tompkins. Another example is the series I have started on the basics of understanding object-oriented programming which I started
here and have begun the continuation
here with Encapsulation Defined. Eric Wise has taken the same idea and spelled it out in his version of a bird's eye view
in this post.
I'll be continuing my series on the topic and hope to cover it in
greater detail and depth, but he provided a very good post which covers
from a VB.Net POV what I'll be covering in multiple posts from a straight OO POV (or would that be Pov?).
We work for the benefit of the group at CB. This is most evident by the work done on the new look of the site by
Geoff Appleby, which he detailed
here. He spent his
weekend time working on this for the benefit of us, the CB bloggers, and you, the CB reading community.
There are other reasons I like CB, such as I don't get timeouts and
comment spam all the time. But we want to know what you think. Do you
enjoy our topics? Do you find them of value? Are there topics you would
like to see one of us blog about? Do you like the new layout of the
site? Do you encounter any problems with the site? Are we a site you
visit on a daily basis? Do we blog too much? Not enough? Any praise, comments, rants and raves are
greatly appreciated, and right now I'm providing you with an open mike
to do so. Also, you can always contact any one of us by clicking the
Contact link on our individual blog page.
Posted
Mon, Feb 14 2005 5:56 PM
by
Raymond Lewallen