Planet CakePHP

A natural continuation from my last post How do GOOD Developers Ask Questions?:
How do good developers answer questions? When given a very specific
question that you know has a very specific answer, your first reaction
might be to blurt out the answer and be done with it. However, I like
to go the extra step and ask what they've tried so far or what research
they've done.  I like to show them how to arive at the answer on their
own as well as provide the solution. The old 'Give a man a fish
and he eats for a day, teach him to fish and he eats for a lifetime.'
Allowing one to do personal research leads to an infinite amount of
additional knowledge compared to spoon-feeding code to others.
Ofcourse this doesn't apply to simple quick-reference type
questions where you know full-well that the asker is capable of finding
the solution on their own but are asking you to save time. AVOID PISSING OFF THE ASKER BY BEING CONDESCENDING OR ANNOYING.