Mike Bernat's Blog: How SHOULD developers answer questions?

Courtesy PHPDeveloper.org  Wed, 10/28/2009 - 11:31

As a continuation from his previous post ("How do GOOD developers ask questions?") Mike Bernat is back with this suggestion on how should good developers answer questions.

When given a very specific question that you know has a very specific answer, your first reaction might be to blurt out the answer and be done with it.

However, I like to go the extra step and ask what they've tried so far or what research they've done....


 

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