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March 2019 Site Update

Matt

Highlights

 

  • Loads of improvements to support Dreamboard v2, which is coming soon! image

 

  • Easily paste a Parts List / Bill of Materials (BOM) into content.

 

Adding product links where other Community members can easily buy the parts used in a project can be quite time-consuming. We've added a new 'Paste BOM' (upload Bill of Materials) feature to the Product Link dialog. Here are a few screenshots of it in action;

 

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     Just fill in the Excel template we've provided, copy the sheet to the clipboard,

 

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     and paste it in... where it'll give you a quick preview of the data...

 

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     ...then you can insert it into your content...

 

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  • Community members do an awesome job at spotting spam content (huge thanks for doing this!!). We'd like the platform to automatically remove more than it does now & looked into a few options. Today we've activated an improvement which we're hoping will help a lot.. can't really say more than that image

 

Improvements / Fixes

 

  • Tweak to the video widget in element14 Presents Projects to get it to sort by recent content
  • Image gallery CSS timeout (hopefully fix an error we sometimes saw)
  • Switch to new Community Avnet logo
  • Create your first content message when no content shown My Content
  • Add 'Zedboard Community' link to 'Find Products' menu
  • Add 'Zedboard Forums' link to 'Discuss' menu
  • Disable Hangouts functionality for Events (no longer used)
  • Lock the Subject field for DMs sent for GDPR
  • Update privacy policy
  • Make the initial get in Recent Content Widget configurable (should help with performance of Overview pages which use it)
  • Fix menu links in Design Center to point at correct URL

 

+ 2 other improvements

 

Behind the Scenes

 

You might be interested that we're experimenting with Microsoft Azure for certain aspects of our development cycle, and to help build out features more easily/faster. One simple thing we've done behind the scenes is to link our environment stop / start scripts to a Logic App which will send automated messages into Microsoft Teams to inform team members that the servers are restarting. Although this is simple integration, it's very handy for our wider teams to know what's happening, without us having to remember to send a notification manually.

  • Hi Matt!

     

    I tried out the Product Link Paste BoM tool, it works well! To ease things from schematic to Product Links, I wrote some code for EAGLE.

    Creating Product Links in a Blog Post, using EAGLE

    For the Product Name column, I decided to format the text like this:

    "Value - Device [Package] // Description"

    Maybe for some future update we could brainstorm on the best way to change this for a future version of the Paste BoM tool (cosmetic, so low priority). For example, everything after // could be in a lighter colour, or everything between square brackets could be in italics, etc. Anyway my code is really basic, I can change it to any format - perhaps on second thoughts I should have added markup-style tags..

  • That's much more ambitious than any of my 1970's Reality boards consists of a either a Z80, Z8, 6502, COP1802, 2650 or 68000!

    I cut my teeth on these programming in their native assembly languages.

    Back then many devices were OTP so you really hand to nail your code and designs or end up with a bin full of spent PROMs.

    The fun was the journey with all of the small accomplishments and disasters on the way.

     

    Here's a silly question that I'd thought I'd never ask.

    Does anyone know the whereabouts of a spare Signetics 2650 that I can get my hands on?

     

    Q: When is a RISC not a RISC?

    A; When it is a RISC with added instructions! Like many of the current generation ARMs.

  • in reply to danzima

    Absolutely, like using the Sudo command in Linux. Strangely, the longer and more effort that has gone into the SPAM, the more satisfying it is to delete with a single click. I always back my action up with a paragraph or two before clicking submit - just in case I've misinterpreted the post and someone, like yourself, has to investigate the originators complaint.

     

    Rod

  • in reply to 14rhb

    YES! Who doesn't like swinging the banhammer? But only responsibly, of course.

  • in reply to 14rhb

    lol. I'm absolutely certain some will still get through image