I remember the days very clearly when I would ask dumb questions. I even go back and read some of my old threads and say 'Geez, that was so easy. I was such a nOoB'. I will admit, a lot of my threads didn't get answered or I just couldn't understand how to do it myself.
So what did I do? Started to learn the langage myself. After a few weeks of intense reading, I began hacking my test forum. After weeks of late night hacking, and going back and forth from my PHP book, sitepoint.com, and vB.org to get some PHP question answered. I finally finished my very first official hack. That hack happens to be vBSigHosting. I was really proud of myself, and wanted to release it to the community ASAP.
I wanted to share with everyone what I've been working so hard on. So i quickly started created a readme.txt file, and started uninstalling everything and reinstalling everything over and over again on my test board. That way my instructions were flawless. After a few nights of that, I finial got to release my first hack to the vBulletin community. All the moderators here helped me so much. Stefan, Erwin, Dean, Chen, ect...
I was so proud of my first hack, it even made it in the HOTM thread. Didn't win, but I came in 3rd. I was happy for that. Not bad for my first hack. Because of that, I wanted to release more hacks, and have done just that. Now, imagine if they slapped me with a sticker stating my hack wasn't QA approved. All my hopes and pride would have been shot down and i wouldn't be releasing more hacks because of that.
No matter how friendly you tell a user that there hack isn't QA approved. It hurts deep down inside, and would stop a lot of people like myself from releasing new and approved hacks. My $0.02.
I remember the days very clearly when I would ask dumb questions. I even go back and read some of my old threads and say 'Geez, that was so easy. I was such a nOoB'. I will admit, a lot of my threads didn't get answered or I just couldn't understand how to do it myself.
So what did I do? Started to learn the langage myself. After a few weeks of intense reading, I began hacking my test forum. After weeks of late night hacking, and going back and forth from my PHP book, sitepoint.com, and vB.org to get some PHP question answered. I finally finished my very first official hack. That hack happens to be vBSigHosting. I was really proud of myself, and wanted to release it to the community ASAP.
I wanted to share with everyone what I've been working so hard on. So i quickly started created a readme.txt file, and started uninstalling everything and reinstalling everything over and over again on my test board. That way my instructions were flawless. After a few nights of that, I finial got to release my first hack to the vBulletin community. All the moderators here helped me so much. Stefan, Erwin, Dean, Chen, ect...
I was so proud of my first hack, it even made it in the HOTM thread. Didn't win, but I came in 3rd. I was happy for that. Not bad for my first hack. Because of that, I wanted to release more hacks, and have done just that. Now, imagine if they slapped me with a sticker stating my hack wasn't QA approved. All my hopes and pride would have been shot down and i wouldn't be releasing more hacks because of that.
No matter how friendly you tell a user that there hack isn't QA approved. It hurts deep down inside, and would stop a lot of people like myself from releasing new and approved hacks. My $0.02.
Joke all you want, alot of people start out in the same fashion I did. They want something done, do it your self. Most of the time they want to share with everyone on how to do it. But when you label someones hard work as not QA approved.... Well you know the rest..
Joke all you want, alot of people start out in the same fashion I did. They want something done, do it your self. Most of the time they want to share with everyone on how to do it. But when you label someones hard work as not QA approved.... Well you know the rest..
Exactly - Look at some of the things I first released for vB2...
Makes me cringe sometimes, but it reminds me that I've not always had as much knowledge as I do
08-02-2005, 07:11 AM
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