These 4 split ideas are great. I've previously maintained a wiki for our department and the most viewed documents are always shifting from year to year. Until now, I've never been confident enough to act on the bits of information I've gotten from people who said they liked X article because Y, and now I can see that those articles are a mish-mash of the how-to and technical reference.
Now I will be able to use this as a framework for my continuing revisions, and be able to ensure that for any subject I want to be able to expect others to teach themselves to understand, I need to have the 4 quadrants ready to go.
Sidenote: I loath the excuses I hear so much these days about self-documenting code obviating the need for __any__ documentation or code comments at all. I'm always looked at like I'm a woozle for pushing back on that. I can't decide if that POV comes from laziness or a sense of denial (this is fine) but that's a rant for another submission.
Now I will be able to use this as a framework for my continuing revisions, and be able to ensure that for any subject I want to be able to expect others to teach themselves to understand, I need to have the 4 quadrants ready to go.
Sidenote: I loath the excuses I hear so much these days about self-documenting code obviating the need for __any__ documentation or code comments at all. I'm always looked at like I'm a woozle for pushing back on that. I can't decide if that POV comes from laziness or a sense of denial (this is fine) but that's a rant for another submission.