A name for IOTD/COTD

[Dia Kharrat]

What names do you guys suggest using for COTD/IOTD considering the fact that initially, we won't get daily submissions. The names I have in mind are:

Today's Developer Image
Today's Code Spotlight

[NomadRock]

Maybe take off the Today's part.
Deloper Image
Code Spotlight

[Mihail121]

i find the original titles ok!

[TheNut]

Code Spotlight has a nice ring to it, though I can't say the same for developer image. Some other possibilities could be:

1) Development Gallery
2) Dev. Show & Tell
3) Image Highlight

[anubis]

...guys... ? especially you dia... i thought this was our IOTD/COTD replacement ?

http://www.devmaster.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=1793

edit : my point on this matter is that i can see that IOTD/COTD is a cool feature but i don't think we should make this an exact copy. i thought in this thread :

http://www.devmaster.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=1740

the consensus was to do what baldurk proposed in the first thread i mentioned

[TheNut]

I'm just going with the flow, even if that means upstream =)

I'm not sure what plans have been finalized yet. I know there's talk about forum adjustments, wiki projects, the logo change, and of course these issues with developer show & tell. So far everything’s being intertwined so perhaps that’s causing memory lapses?

This in turn enables a new feature to be implemented: a todo list™.

[SnprBoB86]

How about [I|C]OTW (where W = week)?

If you get more than weekly submissions just enter then into a queue and once we get enough change the W to a D.

[anubis]

as some people probably haven't read the other thread :

we concluded that any "Of The *insert timespan*" submission schemes are not a good idea and should instead be replaced by a rotation system, in which old submission are shown again if the submission queue is empty. this way

a) we avoid things being stuck on the front page and
B) old, but nevertheless still interesting stuff can be seen again

my idea of an IOTD would be baldurk's developer showcase (post comments on the idea over there).
as for COTD... i think the code snippets forum could develop into that. my idea here would be to make the contents of the forum easily browsable (how this should exactly look like is sort of dave's responsiblity) from the front page. code would still be posted in the snippets forum at and would also be discussed there

[Mihail121]

Yes i'm fully agreed with anubis. No need to make COTD section or something like that cause everyone that wants to show some quick tricks (like a full implementation of Red-Black tree featuring both insertion and deletion) can do it in the code snippets forum.

[baldurk]

I'll see what I can do about getting a proper proposal written down somewhere.

[Dia Kharrat]

anubis: yes that's still the plan: to make a rotation system when the queue is empty, which is Ed Mack's initial idea. The queue is processed each day (FIFO basis). If there's a new entry, it would display that, otherwise, it would go back and display something from a previous date. That's why we're not calling it a COTD/IOTD - and hence this thread :D

I would like to have the system as automated as possible. A moderator would only have to approve the submission, and the queue is processed daily automatically - as well as the rotation if there's nothing in the queue.

Correct me if I'm wrong, from what I understood, baldurk's idea was an addition to the site's features, not a replacement to the Code Spotlight or Images. So we would have:

Code Spotlight
Image Highlight
Featured Project

The way I see it is that the featured project idea could replace the Image Highlight. But it would still work if we had all those features.

[anubis]

i see it as an replcement and i think baldurk thinks the same way, though i can't speak for him

[baldurk]

i see it as an replcement and i think baldurk thinks the same way, though i can't speak for him
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agreed. I don't (personally) see the point in highlighting code every day/week/timeperiod. However, the image/project highlight I do see the point of. The problem being the two are too similar to have both, and I prefer the project highlight because it's a more original spin, and provides more depth.

[Francois Hamel]

The problem being the two are too similar to have both

hmm, yes in a way but when you say "project" do you mean large/medium scale projects or that also includes little demos of a single effect for example?

As I see it, Image Highlight could be usefull for short term "projects" while Project Highlight for more complete/robust/with depth projects.

[baldurk]

The problem being the two are too similar to have both

hmm, yes in a way but when you say "project" do you mean large/medium scale projects or that also includes little demos of a single effect for example?

As I see it, Image Highlight could be usefull for short term "projects" while Project Highlight for more complete/robust/with depth projects.
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Anything that the person in charge of writing up the project of the week would be able to write about. That is, not just any project someone has submitted, but a project of any size or type that is interesting or special in some way. See this thread (http://www.devmaster.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=1793).

[Dia Kharrat]

It's a good idea no doubt. One thing about an Image Highlight idea is that we don't have to do any work. The person who wants to show off a demo or project would only have to submit it with a description and the person in control of it would only have to approve it. In a featured project case, we do most of the work by writing description, interviewing, etc...Is that a problem in the future with regards to updates, etc.?

[NomadRock]

I think having all 3 is a good idea. Featured projects should be very indepth. Much more than just as screenshot. I also think that a forum is not the best way to store code snippets, it just does not fit the content. There shoudl be a special repository meant especially for that. I think there should be forum threads linked to each one so people can discuss them, but the discussion should not be a part of the code.

[bladder]

I have mixed feelings about this... I like the image rotation thing, we *will* be able to comment and discuss the images right? Like they will be connected to their oen forum topic? Code of the day seems a bit, feh, for a display all by itself. I also think the code and snippets forum can be used as a Code Showcase. Just that uploading and post approving has to be enabled. The code submitter should be able to upload a zip file in that forum containing the code. A mod can check the submission and approve/diapprove before it shows up in the forum...

Maybe, the front page can show the latest 2-3 code submissions that have been approved though. Wouldnt hurt. And I like this in depth view at a project. We can have an indie project spotlight. someone can interview the developers and write an indepth review of their product, how it's coming along. If it's a finished game we can review it, if it's an engine we can review that as well.

[NomadRock]

I assume the image/forum connection will be the same as it is right now for the news items right? I wouldn't even mind if the project coverage hit commercial titles as long as the developer was on the forums. It is still a valid topic for discussion among fellow programmers, something they cant get when they submit their features list to IGN or wherever.