FAQs and Code Library

Anyone who's been following the VB-World Yahoo! Group the past week or so will be aware of an effort to store articles and code submitted by members, in a system similar to PlanetSourceCode, although ours will be much much w00ter, because, in the words of plenderj, "We 0wnz ;)"

However, anything like this will need an editor of some kind, so I was asked to post this poll of who you want as an editor...

PS: This list isn't meant to imply anything, it's just the names he thought of off the top of his head :)

Other (Give details below): MMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

I AM MUST:D

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Anyone?

Nonono parksie! Not me!

i vote for filburt cos he is the king and queen of cool :p

And this was supposed to be serious :rolleyes: Oh well, all threads can be considered gutterable

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Could you just clarify what you mean by "editor"

Head honcho.
Basically the person that would be allowed dictate where code samples go and what not.

The idea is that any project needs someone to lead it. Even if that person does ****all, there has to be someone to make decisions. So thats what the editor would do.

Aha right.

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i vote for filburt cos he is the king and queen of cool :p

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Raab is the king of cool!!!

you forgot to add raab to the poll. Raab is the king of cool code.

Yeah !...You are more than a guru with 178892 posts :D.

For reasons unknown to humanity, that number does not increment at all.

Jesus parksie, you shouldnt have posted that last option for other ppl :)

LOL

Oh well, can't change it now :p

Actually I can, but can't be bothered... ;)

Well, people who are not a member of the VB-World Yahoo! Group couldn't really be editor, as they don't really know what's going on.

And I believe there may be some people in the poll that aren't members. So they couldn't really be eligible, because they don't have complete details as to what's going on.

Just mentioning that fact.

Anyways, I was reading email, forgot though, who's idea was it really, who started it? And who has the most knowledgable skill with web pages and all those areas and who has the most time to spend on it?

That is the person that should be the editor.

Basically set up something and then, also have news updates or whatever automatically sent to the group.

It's a great idea, having basically the main facts about FAQ that are asked everyday and answered with the same answers everyday. At least, if people used it, they're wouldn't be many of the same questions asked, as they'd be answered in the FAQ site we are to produce.

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Anyways, I was reading email, forgot though, who's idea was it really, who started it? And who has the most knowledgable skill with web pages and all those areas and who has the most time to spend on it?

That is the person that should be the editor.

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Oh bugger :eek: Looks like it would be me, but...

...since I wrote most of the site then it can't really be me (I can't really do tech stuff and be editor)

Well I wrote a few articles, I can fiddle with tech stuff, obviously know my html and what not ....

Anyway, if we cant find someone soon, I'll take on the role for the time being!

FYI, I was the Editor-in-Chief of www.cmptr.com.

I don't really know how to be an editor :rolleyes:.
Can someone explain to me what an editor does?

tbh, I really dont care who gets the job as long as the project gets going.
We dont necessarily need someone in charge, but I do think it would be a good idea. Anyway I'll keep banging out code samples and articles....

He edits.


:D

Well, it's all your choices.

As plenderj stated, we don't even need a person doing it, we can have several trustful people.

By trustful, I mean that you all agree on a design and not ruin other works and discuss with each other about something you don't like and agree on change or whatever.

Kind of like Linux, I guess...;).

Okay this is my idea of how it could work. Suggestions and comments, please :)

1. Go to section you want to submit for
2. Submit code, supplying your username and password (*)
3. It goes into a queue to be edited (so Matt, those thousands of items are gonna take a while, we'll all need to chip in doing those)
4. The trusted editors can each access the queue, and can select to edit a newly submitted item. There will also be a list of in-progress items (an item is in-progress when it's been selected by an editor) available.
5. The item, when edited, is finally submitted and moved to its final place in the DB, and is then available to be viewed.

* Where to get these from? Should I have it so you need to register as well on that site, or should it try and get it from vBulletin? I think the former would probably be easier in this case but you can always supply a VBForums.com username so that can be linked in.

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Come on, this is kinda important :(

Of the VB Forum Gods listed above, the only one I never heard of is Jotaf98. But I voted for parksie since I count this very thread as evidence of who wants to be the editor and who wants to decline the offer anyway.

I was mildly surprised that parksie didn't want to "edit" out the "Other" option for this poll though.

The FAQs and Code Library is an excellent idea. Good Luck Guys!

Well, I can't really be the editor because if I have to maintain the pages and the DB as well I'll be a bit overstretched.

Nobody gave any comments on my idea, so I'm gonna do it anyway :)

I like matt's idea of a number of people taking charge.

I agree.

PS: It's coming on quickly now. So far we have...

Logging in
Viewing current submissions
Editors can see the queue of non-edited (separated into new and in-progress)
Editors can view individual pre-edit submissions

At the moment I've still got to code up actually editing the damn things, but that'll come soon :)

PS: I decided to stuff vB integration ;)

Will it have [Highlight=VB] tags and what not ?

Tags supported at the moment:

vbcode
code
quote
b
i
u

:)

I've missed something...what actually is it...a web site? a VB/C App?

It's a web site.

View the early prototype at www.parksie.uklinux.net/snippets

i'm in cloud cuckoo land at the moment

Better than me, I'm stuck here on earth writing php code :eek:

hmm, pretty funky. Could do with some...colour? maybe

Well, that's a better design than the first one I had ;)

Someone else can sort that out once it works. However, good luck to anyone trying to change my mind on that general layout :p

oh no, the general layout is good ;)

Well you can have my tutorial in db forums for a good start!!

And a got number 2 as well now.

Parksie why are you trying to match PSC???

Guys - do realize, we aren't making this like www.planet-source-code.com, that'd be copying.

This is basically just FAQs :).

You guys should join Raabs Cool Code Crazy Clique Club for Coders.

I was thinking about the role of the editors.
Basically there should be a number of them, as matt said.

But I've had a thought as to what they do.
When a user submites a FAQ, it sits in a queue, as parksie said I believe. Then what the editors do is check it to make sure that it makes sense, conforms to a general layout/standard, spelling is relatively correct, and that what the FAQ says is true.

Eg. I could submit something saying something that the Variant data type is the fastest for use in CPU intensive loops.

If there was nobody to check that, it'd go right up there into code optimization and would be completely wrong.

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Well you can have my tutorial in db forums for a good start!!

And a got number 2 as well now.

Parksie why are you trying to match PSC???

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Because viewing articles on PSC is a painful experience. PSC works much better when you download a piece of code (as it should be).

However, if people use ours like that and we kick PSC's arse I won't complain...

how about me, i have lots of spare time (you know, between the mackeral and whipped cream)

I've just had a look at your example, and found this:

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Animal Banana Chimp

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Frankly, I'm now a little worried about you... ;) :rolleyes:

Are you going to have the same editors to check that the code and the English used is up to scratch? Some people here are bloody good coders, but damn near well nigh on illiterate. :(

(And vice versa as well.)

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I've just had a look at your example, and found this:

Frankly, I'm now a little worried about you... ;) :rolleyes:

Are you going to have the same editors to check that the code and the English used is up to scratch? Some people here are bloody good coders, but damn near well nigh on illiterate. :(

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It was my test...there were loads of them (notice it's A B C? They all went B C D, C D E, etc. - I was testing the search)

Y'know - I was only kidding about the chimp thing. The ABC wasn't too difficult to work out (even for me). :rolleyes:

My next point was serious, though.

Perhaps.

Although most of the people on this list seemed to have fairly good grasp of English :) If the worst comes to the worst, I'll end up checking each one over for language (after it's been edited for content).

i am native english speaker, i think that me would be much good at the job... :D lol (i can really speak better english than that though)

Well, it'll be pretty obvious who can and cannot speak english properly.

Seems that way :)

Sorry ppl, I haven't managed to spend as much time on developing the site as I might have wanted, but keep on getting the articles and code together :)

Email them to me if you have to, but if you do that it won't have a profile for you, although you WILL be credited (you need to register before you can post so we can link submissions to vb-world users).

Therefore, for maximum benefit - if you want to email anything in, please provide:

username you want
password you want
vb-world username
email address (if different from the one you send it from)

I'll make sure you get put into the DB :)

can I submit my code to turn lead into gold?

Has a few bugs, but works most days.