Tuesday, December 22, 2009

The importance of knoledge sharing (one year after)

Ok, it is about one year and a half that I have shared my idea by publishing them on my "A few bits of code" web site.


The number of visit is increasing each month as showed in the above picture. It is not a success story but I'm happy to have had the opportunity to discuss about embedded technology with so many people. Until today I received more than 300 mails and I followed about 100 discussions. Sometime I had the right answer, sometime I didn't success. In each case my know-how is increasing thanks to all these question I received, that focused my attention.

Even if three hundred e-mails is not so much during one year, it is not so easy to reply to all due to this is not my primary work. Many time I received a question more than one time from different people, and I searched in my e-mail to quick find the answer (thank spothlight! ;-). Other time I was so full that I delayed the reply for too long time. I apologize.
For these reason I think that the e-mail is not always the best tool to discuss about my shared bits of code. For these reason I setup the open discussion forum: everyone could access the knowledge in the forum for free. To search for an answer in the forum is more quick than wait for a reply to an e-mail. More over, in the forum we can find more people able to solve a problem better than me! ;-)

So, I definitively suggest to use the forum to ask for support.

All this effort is focused on my idea (that is each day more clear): ODeV. It is both a way to develop embedded application based on the multitasking approach, and a set of tools focused to make this approach easy and based on Eclipse. I hope to release the first ODeV plug-ins in the next year, 2010. :-)