messy blog - guidelines and tips

[Daniel da Rocha]

Hello,

As it is normal when we have to deal with scripts and code and lots of people posting on the blog, it is getting a bit confusing and hard for us to follow all the postings!
Maybe we could follow a few guidelines from now on to make it more organized?


1) Use the Title field when posting. It gives direct identification to the post and is used for archive indexing.

2) As a naming convention, let's try to use as titles for your post: 
   (number of assignment) - (name) - (any other text you want)
   For example:
   01B - Daniel da Rocha - Recursive Squares question!
   This makes it easier to identify and find it later.

3) Always write a line or so explaining what is the post about.

4) Format your code: to do so, when you are composing in blogger, go to HTML and paste your code:
    <pre class="python" name="code">
       (your code here)
    </pre>

5) When you paste your script, verify if the indentation is still in place. Without it, it is very hard to understand the code and to run it in another computer!


I hope we manage to make the blog bit more organized!
One last tip: you can always use an offline blog editor to write on the blog. I personally use the Microsoft Live Writer software to post on the blog (http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/). Much better than that tiny text field from Blogger. One good option for Macs is ecto, which I heard is also pretty good (http://illuminex.com/ecto/). Anyway, a quick search on Google will provide you with tons other tools you can pick from.

Thank you and see you tomorrow
Daniel