Cookbooks @ Adobe
Adobe has rolled out the next generation of it’s development recipes portal: Adobe Cookbooks
There are two major stories delivered with this new version:
- Contributing has become a lot easier.
- The prominence and recognition for community members who actively participate in Cookbooks was increased.
In detail, there is a set of new features that are making the experience more enjoyable and productive.
- Support for “topics” and “tags”.
- 17 technologies & products, including non-Adobe ones: AIR, Flash Professional, ColdFusion, LiveCycle, Dreamweaver, Flash Catalyst, ActionScript, Mobile and Devices, Video, PHP and more.
- Improved content discoverability:
- Search engine optimization
- Ability to drill-down by tag, or do a full-text search
- “data visualizer” – the Flash widget you see on the homepage, which is a fun way to explore the content and the community behind it.
- Related articles recommended for each recipe.
- Leader board featuring the most active and the most recent contributors, including integration with Community Help profiles.
- A new way to pull in new recipes, called “recipe requests”: users can ask for a help on a task or topic, and receive solutions from the other members of the community.
- Slicker design, improved performance, etc.
Most of the recipes at Adobe Cookbook are Flex and ActionScript. AIR has only 60+ of them which is very low.
I like the rating system.