How do I let programmers know something useful?

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Published on 2011-02-05T07:41:39Z Indexed on 2011/02/05 15:33 UTC
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Quite often I go through pain to discover how to do something useful, in this case how to get PHP running on Google App Engine without the 'resin.jar too big' problem, but I have nowhere to let people know. In this particular case, the web answers were incomplete, outdated or plain wrong.

I could create a blog, but it's overkill. I just want let programmers know a quick solution/approach. I'm not sure it's the done thing to ask a question and then answer it.

In short, it'd be nice to be able to just dump a sort of combined question/answer/snippet, then let others comment as usual, shoot it down, like it, whatever.

How do the rest of you approach this?

Cheers,

Shane

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