{"id":29,"date":"2005-05-25T07:58:43","date_gmt":"2005-05-25T14:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/archives\/2005\/05\/25\/ask-a-stupid-question\/"},"modified":"2005-06-07T02:18:25","modified_gmt":"2005-06-07T09:18:25","slug":"ask-a-stupid-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/archives\/2005\/05\/25\/ask-a-stupid-question\/","title":{"rendered":"ask a stupid question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it seems that my stupid questions and bad starts have actually been useful.<\/p>\n<p>In learning all the right ways to write patches for the <a href=\"http:\/\/winehq.org\/\">Wine<\/a> project, I got corrected a lot by the various developers.  This is a much better situation to be in than the dreadful dead-air you can sometimes find on other development mailing lists where the more experienced project members just ignore questions and don&#8217;t bother to critique patch submissions.  That case is so much more frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>On the <a href=\"http:\/\/winehq.org\/site\/forums\">Wine devel list<\/a>, there was never a shortage of people trying to show me how to make my patches better.  It took me several weeks to get a large chunk of code into the project, but in the end, it was well documented, had a test suite, used the correct debug channels, handled memory management correctly, and generally did everything the <em>right way<\/em>.  On top of that success was the fact that the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.jswindle.com\/index.php\/Coding_Hints\">Wine Wiki FAQ<\/a>, which is studiously kept up to date, ended up recording a lot of my questions (or more importantly, their answers).  You&#8217;ll find a lot of &#8220;K. Cook&#8221; in the Coding Hints section now.<\/p>\n<p>While there may be no such thing as a stupid question, they&#8217;re clearly newbie questions if everything you ask ends up in the FAQ.  :)  Hopefully my bumbling will be useful to other folks in the future.<\/p>\n<p style='text-align:left'>&copy; 2005, <a href=\"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/\">Kees Cook<\/a>. This work is licensed under a <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License<\/a>.<br \/><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CC BY-SA 4.0\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"https:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-sa\/4.0\/88x31.png\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it seems that my stupid questions and bad starts have actually been useful. In learning all the right ways to write patches for the Wine project, I got corrected a lot by the various developers. This is a much better situation to be in than the dreadful dead-air you can sometimes find on other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}