Experts Exchange worth it?

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SooTyLaD

SooTyLaD

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hi guys, just wondering what your opinions are on the experts exchange service/website?

you get a good level of giving and taking on OcUK but for those issues where you need quick results etc do you think the EE subscription is worth it?
 
Most definitely, definitely so. When writing software I find it invaluable, it's like having a genius by your side a lot of the time. For someone like me who works by themselves, it's also a bit of a bonus and has 90% of the time got me unstuck.
And for all the money it costs for a year. Buttons really tbh.
 
personally, no, but then I'm only in web based stuff, and I've not yet been in a position where I've not been able to find an alternative solution to anything posted on EE. Though I don't doubt it's a valuable resource, it's not the sort of thing I'd pay for.
 
Sic said:
personally, no, but then I'm only in web based stuff, and I've not yet been in a position where I've not been able to find an alternative solution to anything posted on EE. Though I don't doubt it's a valuable resource, it's not the sort of thing I'd pay for.
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For the sake of 50 quid a year or something, if it answers even a couple of questions it's paid for itself I think. I don't do a lot of web stuff so perhaps it's a bit different then, I don't know, but in the past when googling specific error messages or searching for details of certain programming language terms, EE practically always came first and I thought I'd join. It's been invaluable to me a fair few times in the last couple of years.
My profile is here and if you look at some of the questions I've asked & got resolved, you can see why I'm praising it so much.
 
5tephen said:
For the sake of 50 quid a year or something, if it answers even a couple of questions it's paid for itself I think. I don't do a lot of web stuff so perhaps it's a bit different then, I don't know, but in the past when googling specific error messages or searching for details of certain programming language terms, EE practically always came first and I thought I'd join. It's been invaluable to me a fair few times in the last couple of years.
My profile is here and if you look at some of the questions I've asked & got resolved, you can see why I'm praising it so much.
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well, we're obviously in different situations then - like I said, I've never been in a situation where, with research, I've not been able to figure something out using free, readily available resources - though it does seem like a very valuable resource (it's always resulted high on searches I've done in the past), I can't justify paying for something that I can get for free with a little extra work.

I like furnace's idea of being able to filter subscription sites, or even specific domains.
 
Sic said:
well, we're obviously in different situations then - like I said, I've never been in a situation where, with research, I've not been able to figure something out using free, readily available resources - though it does seem like a very valuable resource (it's always resulted high on searches I've done in the past), I can't justify paying for something that I can get for free with a little extra work.

I like furnace's idea of being able to filter subscription sites, or even specific domains.
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You can use -keyword to omit matches, eg -experts-exchange :)
 
Sic said:
personally, no, but then I'm only in web based stuff, and I've not yet been in a position where I've not been able to find an alternative solution to anything posted on EE. Though I don't doubt it's a valuable resource, it's not the sort of thing I'd pay for.
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Same here - I signed up with them last year (company paid) and didn't find anything there that I couldn't find elsewhere so I cancelled the membership.
 
ive used experts exchange for help with programming problems, but to be honest ive found codeguru more useful as they have several different language forums where ya can basically get the same help, and it free aswell
 
For most web stuff you should be able to find what you need with a combination of the official site, forums like this, newsgroups and IRC. It's very rare that one of these won't come up trumps.
 
Yeah a thumbs down from me. Whatever is on there you can easily find answers to for free.

Plus when I opened that link above it threw a smilies popup at me. Here, have this smiley :mad:
 
Any company that didn't have the foresight to see their URL relates to gender change operations is a no no from me.

Besides which the attitude of some of the replies is at times worse than the big-heads on here!

Stick to the official forum of the product and I doubt you'll go wrong.

As mentioned above, CodeGuru is a good choice.
 
5tephen said:
I'm the only one that's right. Everybody else in this thread sucks.
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for that comment, you became the best person in the thread, but if majority vote counts (and it does! :p) then you're still wrong!
 
Sic said:
for that comment, you became the best person in the thread, but if majority vote counts (and it does! :p) then you're still wrong!
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I'm actually surprised how many people are against EE, there probably is loads of other help out there but I find it's what's always got me sorted over the years and I'm just sticking to what I'm used to, I guess. And yes it does cost but it's a small amount over the course of a year :) Plus it's a business expense to me which does no harm. Anyhow I'm repeating what I've already said above so there's nothing more to add apart from that I may be wrong but at least I don't suck :p
 
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