Looking for Good-Tutorials Moderators
Apr 10, 2009 — 19 comments
Zach Holman
http://zachholman.comJoined over 3 years ago. Zach helps out by being a moderator at Good-Tutorials.
Original Post: Bug fixes ahoy!
beaner15: That shouldn't be happening; sorry for the apparent bug there. If you could, please file a bug report with some more details on your browser and operating system and I'll look into it further. Thanks!
Original Tutorial: Sub-command executables with Commander gem
Pretty interesting screencast and gem. Could be worthwhile in a few projects I have in mind; might fork it and play around with it some time. :)
(By the way: unless you're doing something else funky with your "clear" alias, you can quickly clear a Terminal screen with command+K.)
Original Post: Becoming a Good-Tutorials Moderator
Good points, and all points that will be addressed in the near future. Definitely have some fun stuff in store for moderators (and the whole site, generally).
Original Tutorial: Basic Game Movement - Flash AS2
Tutorials in the Flash topic require thumbnails for a reason; they should reflect the outcome, not be a stock image you use for all tutorials.
Original Post: Tutorials need love, too
I covered the moderator bit in detail under "meet the moderators".
Original Tutorial: Tutorial: Integrating the Authorize.Net AIM API with PHP
Solid. John's on board with Good-Tutorials. I think my life's complete.
Original Post: Betas and testing and versions, oh my!
@dcloud - I did update one of your tutorials last night that appeared mis-categorized. I'm not sure when you last submitted, but I fixed the submit form late last night, so it should be working now.
Original Post: Welcome to Good-Tutorials, version 6
Some of the bigger changes for the day:
- Tutorial submit now should work for all browsers
- Bunch of optimizations to make it run faster. Likely not "there" yet, but it's a start. I know it's been sluggish as of late, and I'll be working hard to make it snappy in this new version.
@shadex - thanks :)
@Pepper - That's a cool idea; I might do that at some point. There'll be more regular blog posts from this point out, particularly in the coming weeks as things really start happening with the new launch.
Original Post: Welcome to Good-Tutorials, version 6
@freddywang - You can get a feeling for advertising prices by going to the ads page. I'll likely need to better explain some of these at some point, though, so maybe in the future I'll add one page that sort of lists everything at once rather than going to multiple pages.
@pepper - No. I mean, they should show up in your account, but there's not a way to easily see whether or not they've been added. I've added a ticket for this on Lighthouse; it'll get fixed at some point soon. You can track the status on Lighthouse if you want.
@ciaika - That's something that got reverted at the last minute to get a little bit of a "safer" launch. After the current bug on tutorial submission (use Safari for the time being for that!), it's probably my number #2 priority bug. Ratings still go through, but it's just that they keep those rated tutorials visibile in the upcoming queue. You can track the status on Lighthouse if you want.
Sure; just ping me and I'll look over your "application". (Naturally too brief for a real application, but probably the most appropriate verbiage for it.)