Update on UGTV: more presentations, more submitters, and more features
Note: This blog post is from 2006. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.Just an update for those who are interested in my UGTV repository of recorded user group presentations.
First, it now boast nearly 30 presentations from 24 presenters, submitted by myself and 5 others. Thanks, everyone!
I've also added an RSS feed, so you can be notified of new postings. The URL is offered at the bottom of the list page.
Finally, I have also tweaked the interface further in a few ways.
First, thanks to Jeff Coughlin for sharing a few hints to help me fix my show/hide of the recording descriptions. I had it only showing, but not hiding, due to a bug that I hadn't gotten around to fixing. He offered me the appropriate Javascript, making it too easy not to update it. Thanks, Jeff!
Also, he wasn't thrilled by my next/previous links (I was using the greaterthan and lessthan brackets for prev/next, doubling them for first/last.) He pointed out his available custom tag, and again he made it too easy not to try, with a nifty "quickstart" in his docs. Again, kudos.
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Sadly, there were a couple of errors, if I recall, and I didn't see a place to offer comments so didn't track what I fixed, but it was minor. Be sure to validate your feed (that's where I recall the errors being). The article offers links to do that. Let me know how it goes.
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Many thanks - and keep up the good work. See you @ cfDevcon.
I want to note (in case anyone has missed it) that I did add search capability a couple of weeks ago, so one can now indeed search for a term like those above (or part of a presenter name or even part of the URL, such as to determine if I might already have a given recorded presentation before you would add it.)
But what do you or others think, now that I've responded? How might I effectively support categories? How might I best present a hierarchy of possibilities to choose from, both on adding and viewing them? And who should decide the hierarchy? Should I, or should anyone who adds a presentation be free to decide a new one? I fear, again, that it could become quite a challenge to manage for all of us (viewers, submitters, and myself making sure there's no junk added.) I'm open to ideas.
As far as allowing an RSS subscription to only specific types of presentations, how about giving an RSS feed on a set of search results?
As for your thought on subcategories, I want to clarify for readers that Nick had asked for them, so yours is a vote against them (while his response may differ).
Also, I want to clarify what I mean by "subcategories". In case anyone would say "no need to go below Frameworks to the individual ones", I'll argue that "frameworks" would already be a subcategory of "CF", and would bring about all the issues I mentioned above.
Any categorization beyond the broad categories I mentioned would be sub categorization, and to do any (regardless of how deep) is the real debate.
Whats the query sting that one sould pass to your RSS feed?
Just a side thought - maybe keywords/tags? - i'm looking to show a keyword API at cfdevcon.
But here it is: ?search=key+words
As for keywords and tags, that would go along with the idea I've had all along of eventually expanding things to have a page per presentation where folks could rate and comment on them as well. Then, allowing them to add tags would make sense, too.
Or do you mean for the submitter to add such tags? I really doubt most will. If you look, we're often not getting a description, nor the recorded date or duration, and sometimes not even the presenter. I fear that asking the submitter for more is just expecting too much.
But let me know what you're thinking.
Since I don't show the RSS feed link per the search result until after you did the search, I meant to say that if that's the reason you'd not seen it yet, I'd understand. Didn't mean to sound huffy. :-)
As for your feed reader, I don't see the UGTV stuff mentioned, but perhaps it's because there've been no additions since the one yesterday, so other stuff has forced it off your reader's top/recent display.