It's a great idea, and the site looks very good. Two suggestions: 1. Move examples section above source code section 2. Add OpenID sign in support. Personally I'm instantly repelled by sites asking me to create another account/password. And I'm sure I'm not alone. Stackoverflow.com is a great example of how effortless it could be to "register".
- Dmitry On Jul 9, 1:32 am, zkim <zachary....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'll try to keep this short. > > I've gotten a lot out of Clojure: I can honestly say that learning > this language, and being part of this community has made me a better, > happier developer, and I wanted to give something back. > > One of the pain points that I encountered when learning the language > was a lack of examples specific to the individual functions I was > trying to wrap my head around at any given time. So I took a whack at > the problem, and came up withhttp://clojuredocs.org. It's a site > that (I'm hoping) will fill this need by providing a centralized > examples database, along with solid search capabilities across both > core and third party libraries (core being the focus). > > Implementation: > ClojureDocs.org is a rails site backed by MySQL, along with some > clojure code to pull the namespaces / metadata / source and dump them > into the database. > > Highlights: > 1. Documentation and source for Clojure core, contrib, and a few third > party libraries (random selection out of what I'm personally familiar > with, and whatever was on the github trends page that day). > > 2. Search for a var across the whole ecosystem or in a specific > library. > > 3. Per var wiki-style examples section. > > 4. Per var comments section. > > 5. Per var vars-in-this-var and this-var-used-in section (my personal > favorite). Looking for a real-world example of a specific function? > This is for you. For example,http://clojuredocs.org/v/1978, just > below the source section. > > Lowlights: > 1. Ugly URLs! There's a problem in the way that URLs with encoded > question marks are being handled, so I had to move > fromhttp://clojuredocs.org/clj-ssh/clj-ssh.core/file-pathtohttp://clojuredocs.org/v/1484. > I've got an email out to the Phusion > Passenger mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/phusion- > passenger/browse_thread/thread/ed2eadfdac5c166f) but if you've got any > experience in this area drop me a line. > > 2. Strange var names (http://clojuredocs.org/v/781). Probably a bug > in the import process. > > 3. General rough-around-the-edges-ness. > > I'm treating this as an alpha, and I'd really like feedback as to: > a. How useful this would be to the community. > b. Specific likes / dislikes about this alpha release. > c. Feature requests. > > I've set up a feedback mechanism directly through the site (User > Voice), which allows voting on specific posts. I'm also considering > setting up a google group for general discussion. Feel free to > contact me directly through email. > > Questions / thoughts? > > -Zack -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
