Re: Ideas for my site/workbook
From: Robert Brock (Notta_at_Nowhere.Net)
Date: 08/01/04
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Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 00:05:24 -0700
Excellent idea..
As others have said, don't have it just be .NET.. Heck, compile ALL the good
chapters from ALL your books (update the concepts to D7/8 where necessary)
and make an excellent searching/crossreference tool for it all, and charge
one yearly subscription rate for access to that material..
As others have mentioned, many times people just don't know that tools exist
for a certain solution, whether it's file streaming or heck, the QuotedStr
function.. Presentation/Navigation/Crossreferencing is the key, maybe an
almost 'Ask Jeeves' sort of interface.. Tricksy, perhaps..
For videos, that requires more bandwidth, though places like PowWeb.Com are
giving alot of bandwidth and space for very little money.. Still, the videos
would likely be focused on specific topics.. You might want to have a very
specific lesson spread across several (3-10) 20-minute chunks, and they just
buy that entire 'courselet' for a fixed amount.. Don't have it be
downloadable, just streamed, to prevent rampant piracy and posting the vids
on some HackNet, but once you buy access to Course A, you have it forever,
to be able to watch something multiple times..
The mentoring idea mentioned elsewhere as well, is a great idea.. Alot of us
are out here on our own doing huge projects as best we can, but for many
things, you'd like to be able to send maybe a rather large code segment or
sample project to someone that knows alot more than you do, to be able to
say "This was the best way I could come up with to do X, how would you, the
Delphi Guru(tm), optimize this code from a conceptual or technical
standpoint?" And you could say "Dynamic arrays here would be much less
memory hoggish, and what are you using these Elvish pointers for? They
should be Dwarvish!", or some such.. I'm convinced large sections of my
code get the job done, but knowing very little of the intricacies of stack
or heap, they might not be doing things in the most efficient manner..
Instead of reading 80 books on the subject, and probably still not
understanding it, I'd pay alot for some real expert advice.. I realize
that's an awful lot like work, and you might not have the time, but it
*could* be very lucrative.. (This could be a very dumb idea, but I wish
something like this existed, I'd personally take advantage of it)
I've rambled on enough..
Go for it..
Rob
"Thou Shalt Think" - Ayn Rand.
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