Project of the month bragging rights - collecting your ideas here

Mon 2018.11.26

'That page was added specifically because you requested it'

Again, Thank you.

Yes, I suggested and requested a 'Tips+and+Tricks' page with the delivery intent of limiting that help to that of code snippets that are frequently used or might not be readily known. A snippet Tip help for an improved coding practice or a snippet Trick to solve an unknown situation.

ref from #2 #7: /conversations/324978/

'so it's a shame you weren't aware that it already contains '

So if I missed it, . . . . other's might also?

and exactly how does one get notified when content on that page changes?

as 'Interesting Projects' was added after the last time I last visited that page.

IMHO, projects really don't fall under that umbrella of help assistance. So why would I go there to determine if a projects page existed? Which brings up the visibility issue, spent the weekend assisting forum requests with those users that were having some difficulty navigating to locate specific help, so how does one learn of the 'Tips+and+Tricks' page to start with, unless they read the specific forum conversation link above or stumble across it from a forum reference like this one? Even a Google search falls short unless one uses that exact text 'tip' and the 'site:' qualifier. Might it make sense to at least put a link on the FAQ's page, or beneath the 'Documentation' menu item perhaps?

'We have that already at https://github.com/espruino/EspruinoDocs­/tree/master/examples'

Yes, but that is a summary of all examples. My suggestion is to sensationalize just one for a month at a time.

I also indicated in #1 above,

'Not trying to minimize the tremendous amount of work put into the underlying tutorials and examples'

Maybe there is a need for a sister successes site along side the get started development site?
Just trying to find a way to get new eyeballs to the site so that more authentic boards are placed in front of those eyeballs. "Hey Fred, did you see what Joey did with an Espruino Pico? He is on the winning feature's page this month. Wow, yeah, I've got an even better idea that beats that! Let me get one." Does the wallet hear me now?

'I thought writing a separate Markdown file would be too much of a hassle'

It is quite possible that to add this idea, will fall into that same scenario.

Several vendors get the end user engaged right from the home page. Pulled this one out of the air:

https://www.sparkfun.com/

Example solutions of what one might do at the sparkfun web site are smack in your face, so there is no doubt what can be learned at going to that referenced link or what the encompassing web site is all about.

' some awesome stuff going on with Espruino, but very little of it gets posted up'

IMHO 'bribing' someone with hardware, to post their project, defeats the purpose and diminishes the efforts of those that 'want' to show off their work. The idea of the 'Featured Project' page was to give those that actually follow through some visibility and credit. My suggestion would be to give that hardware away as a contest, or best voted over (the last year) time, winning entry, not a bribe.

Amazing, nearly another hundred views, and still not a single other reader comment.

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