I love when people act. It's not the easiest thing in the world.
In fact it seems like the current trend these days is not even
bother to tell someone that you're unsatisfied but rather just
tweet "xxxxx sucks bigtime". Which is kind of odd as - I like to
think that - most people don't do things to annoy you. So when
something isn't right, there's a big chance that being constructive
and friendly will get you much further than an angry tweet.
So when I opened up my laptop this evening and saw a ton of
retweets of Lee
Messenger's announcement about of
a newbie guide to Umbraco I got really
excited. When I followed the link and read his work it made me
really happy. What a great resource and what a wonderful,
constructive way of helping others. I'm sure that already by the
time you read this, the effort made by Lee has helped people save
more hours than it took collecting and sharing the information.
Even though it's a lot.
Imagine what could happen if we all took the time
to follow Lees example. If we wrote the tutorial we missed a
couple of months back, if we submitted a
great bug report, shared a cool project or
took the time to help others
in the forums the way we got help last year. Of course we'd
disappoint the number of people who still like to say that Umbraco
has a steep learning curve and that there's no documentation - even
more than the disappointment they'd feel if they read Lees
post.
But that's a tradeoff I can live with. Let's get to work - there's karma waiting!