Nexus - More Progress on Implementation

Hope you all had a great holiday weekend (or a great weekend even if not a holiday where you are). The implementation is moving forward for the bundles. The pending release now allows me to add, delete, re-order and edit items within a given bundle. The re-ordering is not good - you have to manually change the “position” of each item. While functional, this isn’t good enough to release - so I will be refactoring this tomorrow.
Progress Update
The following items (from our previous update) have a first implementation complete:
- Each bundle is created by an individual (Paul the program manager).
- Each bundle has a subject and description (”Intro to Use Cases” and “A tutorial that is designed…”).
- Each bundle is composed of multiple items, and the items have an order (1,2,3,…).
- Each item is created by an individual.
- Bundles may allow for collaboration (multiple people submitting / editing items).
- Bundles have categories and experience levels (”Testing,…” and “Beginner”).
The following items have not yet been implemented:
- Each item can point to / represent / contain a single article, or it can be “empty”.
- Bundles can be rated and reviewed by users.
- Bundles may allow for collaboration (multiple people submitting / editing items).
How You Can Help
Bundles will demonstrate their power by providing vetted collections of articles on a single topic. You can help by starting to populate nexus with articles that you might want to combine into bundles. Or you can help by submitting articles about use cases - anything to do with use cases. The first bundle that I am going to create will be a “how to write use cases” bundle. Many of the articles that I believe I will include are articles that I’ve written over the last 18 months. I would love it if I could include other articles by other authors.
So - our team goal is to get a critical mass of articles about use cases - how to write them, how to use them, manage them, whatever. Submit some articles today. If you only submit one, that still helps a lot.


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July 2nd, 2007 at 1:03 am
Hi,
I would like to know how to submit articles for this site?
- Mukesh Soni
July 2nd, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Hi Mukesh, thanks very much for asking. There are some pretty good tutorials on the help page at nexus - http://tynerblain.com/nexus/help
I would suggest looking at “How do I submit an article?” and “Why can’t I submit an article?”
If those two don’t answer your questions - please let me know.
Thanks again