Dev Portal Update: New Steem Developer Resources
Hello Steemians,
Today we’d like to tell you about recent improvements we’ve made to our developer portal as well as our plans for continuing to improve it over time. This might be slightly technical for the average person; however, considering the critical role that developers play within the Steem ecosystem, we feel it is important to bring them to your attention.
Improving Documentation
While Steem has managed to accomplish much in its brief life, excellent documentation is one place where we’ve lagged behind. That’s why we’ve created a dedicated “Portal Team” - to ensure that every Steem developer has the information and resources they need to succeed.
Our Plan
We’ve started by adding a glossary of Steem-specific terms and beginner tutorials. Our plan is to update the portal with new information about every other week. As we continue to improve the portal, it will get easier for beginning developers to get started, and for more advanced developers to reference more obscure api calls.
Community Generated Materials
We are fortunate to have a community filled with engaged developers who have created very useful tutorials, some of which we will be adding to the portal. We will make these tutorials easier to find by aggregating them in a central location and enhancing them with helpful examples that use consistent best practices.
Feedback
The Portal Team is still at the beginning of this project, so we are very open to requests for specific tutorials and suggestions for improvement. Email any suggestions to Steemit’s Developer Advocate: [email protected], with the title “devportal - $subject”.
Be sure to check out the developer portal here!
Team Steemit, Portal Squadron
P.S. Team Steemit recently published an update regarding Communities/Hivemind written by our very own @roadscape! If you haven’t already, be sure to check it out here.
Great to see another communication. I think it would be great if the steemitblog could be pinned somewhere easy to see, without having to go through the voting process.
Why not just follow it? That way the people who care can see it and the people who don't can ignore it. Facebook does the same with dedicated pages you can follow.
I follow lot's of things. :) sometimes there is a month between posts, so not really worth a daily check.
True, would be a good use for multiple feeds. I keep my followings so that I can't miss any post so it is not as much of a problem for me :)
Good karma good notes
this will help a lot for new users glossary of Steem-specific terms, and improvements always needed for the betterment of the system.
tutorials for the beginners are needed. I see in the field so many new users who do not know how to use Steemit platform and they have no guide to direct them. such as the official article from steemit. so we old users have to hassle to serve new users, whereas we do not get Steemit's salary on this kind of work. lately I admit very busy with the number of new users in my area.
Good Info
Fantastic thanks for the update!
Thanks for the info, this should also help with 3rd parties who want to implement Smart Media Tokens into their platforms!
@steemitblog Please support RTL languages! It is very difficult to type RTL languages!
This is not a Steemit Blog post, but a Steem Blog post. Shouldn't devs know the difference??
Steemitblog is the account used by Steemit (the company) to publish updates.
Yes, but this post has nothing to do with Steemit... Irony?
Except that Steemit (the company) is posting about the updates that they are making
So, with the foresight of naming something "Steemit Inc", to discuss the developments on the Steemit platform via @steemitblog, they decided not to create something called "SMT Inc" or @smtblog. All the while, they know that the Steemit platform is only one small use case within the Steem Blockchain, and completely unrelated to Smart Media Tokens...
Sounds like laziness to me. And either purposefully or ignorantly misleading.
Looking forward to having a steemdev with excellent documentation.
This will increase the steem dApps production rate.