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vonbecmann

[Playground] Getting contents from the cloud?

Hi all,

There is a button to publish the contents of the playground to the cloud but there isn't a button to get the contents from the cloud?

Is that on purpose? i don't get it.

Bernardo E.C.

Sent from a cheap desktop computer in South America.

Peter Uhnak

Re: [Playground] Getting contents from the cloud?

Paste the link into GTSpotter and press enter :)

Peter

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Bernardo Ezequiel Contreras <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi all,
There is a button to publish the contents of the playground to the cloud but there isn't a button to get the contents from the cloud?
Is that on purpose? i don't get it.

--
Bernardo E.C.

Sent from a cheap desktop computer in South America.

vonbecmann

Re: [Playground] Getting contents from the cloud?

GREAT!!!!! (what a dummy!)

thanks.

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Peter Uhnák <[hidden email]> wrote:

Paste the link into GTSpotter and press enter :)

Peter

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Bernardo Ezequiel Contreras <[hidden email]> wrote:
Hi all,
There is a button to publish the contents of the playground to the cloud but there isn't a button to get the contents from the cloud?
Is that on purpose? i don't get it.

--
Bernardo E.C.

Sent from a cheap desktop computer in South America.

Bernardo E.C.

Sent from a cheap desktop computer in South America.

Sean P. DeNigris

Re: [Playground] Getting contents from the cloud?

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vonbecmann wrote

GREAT!!!!!

Yes, isn't it!?

vonbecmann wrote

(what a dummy!)

Not at all. We are terrible at documenting all our amazing features. How would one guess that besides the fact that Spotter can do everything but open your beer bottle?

Cheers,
Sean

Peter Uhnak

Re: [Playground] Getting contents from the cloud?

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Sean P. DeNigris <[hidden email]> wrote:

vonbecmann wrote
> GREAT!!!!!

Yes, isn't it!?

vonbecmann wrote
> (what a dummy!)

Not at all. We are terrible at documenting all our amazing features. How
would one guess that besides the fact that Spotter can do everything but
open your beer bottle?

I found it when exploring spotter extension methods...

The problem is that we want to strike a balance between "no information" and "information overload", which is quite hard, because everyone has different preferences and features are added and removed almost daily to at least one of tools you use.

So here easy discoverability is in my eyes more important than documentation.

E.g. opening inspector on all spotter methods is even easier than googling a website where the documentation/list of features may or may not be.

Plus this doesn't impose extra cost on the developer, as the source acts as documentation.

Of course this doesn't always apply...

Peter

Ben Coman

Re: [Playground] Getting contents from the cloud?

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 9:08 PM, Peter Uhnák <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Sean P. DeNigris <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>>
>> vonbecmann wrote
>> > GREAT!!!!!
>>
>> Yes, isn't it!?
>>
>>
>> vonbecmann wrote
>> > (what a dummy!)
>>
>> Not at all. We are terrible at documenting all our amazing features. How
>> would one guess that besides the fact that Spotter can do everything but
>> open your beer bottle?
>
>
> I found it when exploring spotter extension methods...
>
> The problem is that we want to strike a balance between "no information" and
> "information overload", which is quite hard, because everyone has different
> preferences and features are added and removed almost daily to at least one
> of tools you use.
>
> So here easy discoverability is in my eyes more important than
> documentation.
> E.g. opening inspector on all spotter methods is even easier than googling a
> website where the documentation/list of features may or may not be.
>
> Plus this doesn't impose extra cost on the developer, as the source acts as
> documentation.
>
> Of course this doesn't always apply...
>
> Peter

Perhaps presenting an inform message "Paste link into Spotter" when
the <publish to cloud> button is pressed would not be too intrusive?
cheers -ben