Googlewave-tutorials.com

Googlewave-tutorials.com is a growing online portal for articles and tutorials on the Google Wave technology. The articles featured on the site are broad and varied to allow anyone to gain from Googlewave-tutorials.com, whether you're an interested reader, new starters to Internet technologies or an experienced developer we have a range of tutorials for your level on Google Wave and the surrounding frameworks.

Released in 2009, Googlewave-tutorials.com is a growing index of tutorials for the Google Wave framework and surrounding technologies. We support and encourage all tutorials relevant to the Wave framework.

Tutorial submission

All tutorials submitted to Googlewave-tutorials.com are manually checked before being added to the index to maintain the quality of tutorials available throughout the site. In addition to this, we also provide user's of Googlewave-tutorials.com the ability to report any listing as broken or otherwise not suitable.

Tutorial submission is very simple and relatively painless. After submission, you'll receive an email to confirm the tutorial has been successfully submitted to the index. From here, the tutorial goes into a 'pending' state until we are able to audit the content to be suitable for Googlewave-tutorials.com. During this process the tutorial is not available within the index although you, as the author have the ability to modify your submission during this stage. Access to your tutorial is detailed within the email notification. On successful approval you will receive an email to notify you of your tutorial being featured on the site.

Google Wave tutorials featured on the site can be filtered to support your search requirements. Tutorials can be sorted using the following options:

• Beginner (technical level)
• Intermediate (technical level)
• Advanced (technical level)
• Most recent (chronological)
• Popularity (click rate)
• Wave Videos

Click rate

The tutorial click rate allows tutorials on Google Wave to be filtered by popularity. To maintain this value as a reliable indicator of tutorial popularity we record what tutorials you've clicked on within a tiny Cookie file located on your machine. This file automatically gets deleted from your machine after 1 day. For more information on computer Cookies please visit surfthenetsafely.com. Please note, you may not see the click rate for any given tutorial change immediately after clicking on the tutorial due to our caching algorithm.

Tutorial categories

All tutorials are categorized into relevant sections to aid people looking for tutorials, and to define the overall purpose of the tutorial. Currently, the tutorial category is defined by the internal approval process although this may move onto the tutorial form submission. For the time being, due to this early stage with Google Wave itself we are still identifying the relevant categories and for this reason we are assigning each tutorial the most relevant category as we approve them. The categories currently available are:

• Wave Extensions
• Wave Robots
• Wave Security
• Wave User Interface
• Facebook & Wave

All categories are available on the left hand panel throughout the site, headed 'Google Wave by category'.

Site Profiles

A Site Profile within googlewave-tutorials.com allows publishers to promote their website within the index. A Site Profile allows the author to create a permanent link to their details within googlewave-tutorials.com together with some additional information about the publisher.

Tutorial Tagging

Tutorial tags are now included for every tutorial submission to help locate tutorials on Google Wave. Similar to tutorial categories, tutorial tags provide more indications what the tutorial details. Any given tutorial can have any number of tags although each tutorial can only belong to one category. Tags are located below the tutorial description as shown in the following image. Note, tags are only available for tutorials submitted from March 2010 onwards. Example tags: Recipe, Notifications and Active API.

Tutorial Search

Googlewave-tutorials.com now supports tutorial search to help visitors locate articles and tutorials on Google Wave and surrounding technologies. The tutorial search form is available at the very top right corner of the template, present across the entire website. Simply type your search criteria into the text box and click 'go'. Alternatively, you can also press the keyboard 'return' button to perform the search.