William ChopsWestfield wrote:

>> One of my goals is to learn about ( not be proficient ) all forms of
>> technology. 
>> 
> I may be more important in this day and age to learn how to deal with 3rd
> parties than to learn how to do things yourself. At least, all too often
> the "do it yourself" proficiency doesn't include documenting how you'd
> want someone else to do it. 

It requires a bit of both... proper documentation needs at least a certain
understanding of what the target audience needs.

I agree that documentation is a discipline that seems to be underrated. I
don't know whether there are any reliable stats about this, but I think the
number of worthwhile projects that failed because of insufficient
documentation is probably considerable. You know what I mean when you've
seen how all of a sudden everything /flows/ because everybody has a good
doc that tells them in their language what exactly they have to do to make
it work. And contrary to popular belief, this can be fun :)

Gerhard

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