User:Matt
From DocForge
I'm the owner and primary system administrator of DocForge.com.
My motivation for creating DocForge came partly from frustration. Every software developer is familiar with looking at a variety of sources of information: books, online documentation, forums, etc. Books are usually most useful for specific reference and general learning. They often quickly become outdated. Online documentation is relatively static and often incomplete or lacking in important details. Forums are great for finding answers to specific problems but are much less useful for reference.
An organically growing wiki can be a great help to software developers. Cross-reference, flexibility, organization, and contributions from many make it a great reference. I have a lot of experience which can help others, but I'm not interested in a one-sided conversation or locking my contributions. So I spawned an open wiki to contribute my knowledge and connect it with the knowledge of others. Plus I can organize the information in a useful way that others don't. I think people also find a site dedicated to software developers to be more useful then a general reference wiki.
I hope you agree and join our community.
Software Development Experience
I have more than 12 years of professional experience as a software developer. For the first 10 years I programmed with Microsoft Visual Basic, .NET (obviously only since inception), Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and Sybase. Then I completely dropped Microsoft software for many reasons. Now I develop web applications mostly with PHP and MySQL (LAMP) using Mac OS X desktops and Linux servers.
I've contributed modules to the Drupal open source project.
Elsewhere
I also run the following sites:
- Seen On Slash - The best comments ever seen on Slashdot
- MS Versus
- Gadgets Wanted - Like Digg, but just for gadget reviews and news
