[pbrb]

I personally love it. RTFM is pretty much the basis of my career. I always at minimum skim the documentation (the entire doc) so I have an index of where to look. It's a great jumping off point for if you do need to google anything.

Books are the same. When learning a new language for example, I get a book that covers the language itself (best practices, common design patterns, etc), not how to write a for loop. It seems to be an incredibly effective way to learn. Most importantly, it cuts down on reading the same information regurgitated over and over across multiple blogs.

[cogman10]

lol... yeah.... I've become "the expert" on so much shit just because of RTFM :D

It's amazing how much stuff is spelt out in manuals that nobody bothers to read.

The only issue is that so few people RTFM that some manuals are pure garbage to try and glean anything useful. In those cases, usually the best route is often to just read the implementation (though that is tedious).

[cosmodisk]

I have someone in my network, who is very active in PHP scene. Tutorials, tips&tricks, code reviews, you name it. He pretty much abandoned his very popular website and went all in on YouTube. Why? Apparently watching video is so much easier than reading 3000 word article.