>but doesn’t that take like 5 years or something?

It took me 3 to get a reasonable amount done to freely converse (not perfect) and another 2 or 3 to get business Japanese down. I still make mistakes, and every once in a while my pronounciation is off but more or less, people get confused when I talk to them on the phone (as in they don’t realize I’m not Japanese)

Learning another languages is absolutely cool. I recommend it to anyone. Takes a while, but you see a whole new world.

How in the world could I make it Japanese? Maybe write an app to throw my RSS to BabelFish or something? I have no localization experience, but sounds like a great plan; the more people I can help, the better. It’d help if learn Japanese, I’m sure, but doesn’t that take like 5 years or something?

First off, ever heard the phrase, “Search the Archives” on Flashcoders? I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy. Wading through tons of bs is not for me, and is a waste of my time, and someone trying to learn time. Granted, it builds character and bs weeding talent, but there are better ways to spend ones time. Therefore, there won’t be any bs, just my posts about Flash concepts, and Flash only. I may invite others to post, but not at first. I agree only one person’s opinion is not helpful all the time.

Secondly, by controlling the content and how it’s organized, I keep it clean, and therefore easier to search.

Third, I don’t know about you, but after pretty much adopting Flashn00bz with a few other good people, I see the same questions come up again and again… some even on Flashcoders. Gee, should I go look in the archives and link it there? But who has time to search? Should I go look in the archives in were-here.com? …forumns are just as slow. Are they a member of Flashkit? The list goes on.

To me, it’s just a way to answer with a hyperlink. Call it a personal collection of links that I utilize to answer the same questions. My utlimate goal, at least for another few months, is to have the capability where I eventually just answer with links, and a few lines of customization based on the user’s problem(s). We usually get more posts of a custom, procedural “how to you do it” type of thing on Flashn00bz, so inenvitably, you have to write way more than code; but that’s what makes that list fun anyway.

I agree it may be more effective to work with other people; hell, the idea was with a guy from work. However, I’ve been to all the forumns that I need to; and they are just that; a bunch of forumns. People’s discussions saved. That doesn’t help me weed out the information a person needs. They don’t need the bs, nor the prattle, just:

Here’s the code and here’s how it works. Boom, done.

All the forumns don’t have that in that you have to weed through the info. Given that my subject is currently pretty specialist, I believe it can be acheived more easily. Granted, it’ll be a work in progress, but it’s a tool for me to help people learn, as well as a reference, and sharing it with others I think helps everyone.

Again, it’s all me up front (and whatever Eric from work wants to add), but I’m not sure yet. One thing I’ve found out about side projects is that they don’t desearve a thorough process and hard sighted goals. If you go through all of that, you either have a really good project, or it never gets done. The former happens over time, and I’m out of time.

…then again, I was never patient, but whatever. Full steam ahead, success or bust.