>Here is a small message about the general purpose of this site in regards to posting questions and how we should all perceive such action.

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

The author (Eric Steven Raymond) gives very interesting hints about asking questions, beneficial to both the OP (learning new stuff), and the responders (learning new stuff).

On top of my mind, the OP is inspired to mention:
- what he/she learned from searching
- existing code and/or steps to reproduce
- expected result
- obtained result
- attempts to solve so far