How to Ask Questions of Software Developers

["Grant, Christopher" <CGrant -at- glhec -dot- org>]

Hi everyone.

In a recent thread about how to deal with being shoved out of the
development process, a discussion about  stupid and intelligent questions
came up.  I just wanted to pass on this link to information that I found
pretty helpful in learning how to ask questions that made developers WANT to
hear what I had to ask, rather than seeing me as a work impediment.  

If you aren't familiar with terms like STFW and RTFM, then this will may be
a particularly good read.  YYMV, of course.  :)

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

My apologies in advance if this has been posted before. 

-Chris Grant


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