Not having written too much code for a period, Larry Borsato has jumped with both feet into a coding project only to discover "The state of protocols and APIs for a lot of new stuff is abhorrent." Here's a crazy idea... someone should setup a site that provides quality API and standards documentation for new technologies. This would likely work best for open source technologies and projects, as vendors would prefer to keep a tight reign on their products. Even if there were copyright or other legal issues, perhaps using a way to annotate a vendor's documentation with coder's comments on pit falls, performance issues, bugs and the like could be worked up.

Larry jumped to Google to find his answers (as I often do) and will likely offer his (no doubt well documented) code to the public at some point to help others avoid the trials that he went through. If my suggested site existed, he could take a few minutes and put his comments there for an even wider exposure.

Is there anything like this out there already?