I just saw the page update (
http://wpilib.screenstepslive.com/s/...rio-networking) - thanks for that - you guys rock!
The interesting thing about today's back-and-forth between Alex and I perhaps shows a bit of a generational difference (I hate to admit it, but I'm getting old). I have a related story here...
At my position at work I'm responsible for a large software package similar to the FRC control system*. I'm also responsible for all of the support that goes along with it. We recently decided to help improve our support position (actually improve our overall position by being able to spend more time developing software via reducing the amount of time we have to spend on support) by studying our support requests and upgrading our base documentation and creating an interactive help website.
When creating the new website I was all about the linking. One of the young guys in the group told me, "who cares, I just immediately go to the search feature." I initially wrote that off as two different styles of doing things.
After getting feedback on the site from many people, I finally noticed the trend that the old guys were all about having good links while the young guys were all about the search feature. I have some theories as to why that is, but I guess the important lesson was that different people approach things in different ways. This shouldn't have been a surprise to me - I recently wrote a long post on the important of diversity on a development team for this very reason. If you don't have people on your team to expose the different ways of thinking about problems, you're unlikely to uncover all of the use cases for your product (please don't read anything into that statement regarding the developers of the FRC docs - I just wanted to bring up a real-world example to support my earlier post in the other thread).
Anyway, thanks for listening. You guys have a great future ahead of you. Especially after putting up with an old crotchety guy like me.
*
http://pi-innovo.com/product/