> From: Frank_Gruendel_at_t-online.de (Frank Gruendel)
>
>> You need
>> to become a master in reading manuals and copy and paste as well as in
>> software design this days
>
> Actually I think that this is an outdated strategy these days.
> Yesterday I spent about three hours that way trying to solve a particular
> Java problem. Then I gave up and had a look at www.deja.com. Not suprising,
> someone else has had the same problem around 1998 and has posted the
> solution. The solution was the first entry in the list of found search
> results, copying it and pasting it into my code was a matter of seconds.
> This were three hours I could have definitely spent better...
I've found the "deja" approach quite useful also.
recently with newtVNC, I wanted a vertical slider
(only built-in proto is horizontal). did a search on deja,
found the answer from a few years back -- curious thing was the poster was
me ;-)
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