Avoid confusion, improve JogAmp's visibility

Hi

Lots of people still find broken links to dead websites about JOGL. For example, http://jogl.dev.java.net/ is dead, kenai.com/projects/jogl/ points to an outdated version of JOGL 2.0. Is there a way to modify the latter so that it redirects to jogamp.org?

I contacted several webmasters because their tutorials are completely outdated. As some wrote them only to get a better audience and much advertising revenue, they don't care :(

The obsolete Netbeans OpenGL pack should be updated or removed:
http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/3260/netbeans-opengl-pack

I think it'd probably be worth organizing the tutorials on the wiki pages and marking tutorials obsolete. At least then we'd have an idea of just how much of the available information is out of date.

You're right but there are already tons of obsolete tutorials whose links are not in the wiki but really well referenced in major search engines.

That is a problem.

Any ideas?

On 11/21/2012 02:08 PM, io7m [via jogamp] wrote:
> That is a problem.
>
> Any ideas?

Well, we are not the world police of JogAmp/JOGL links and material :)

However, I guess we already have mentioned *old* stuff in our wiki/tutorial,
i.e. linked in a separate section.
Ofc .. we can cont. this and add more links to old stuff ..

Same goes for NB GL pack,
maybe we can mention this in our IDE wiki, i.e. to not use it.

Then we can also contact maintainers of said links and registry,
but since those *old* things might be no more maintained,
nobody might care anymore - dunno.

IMHO .. that is all what we can do, publish our findings here,
notify 'upstream' .. done.

Over time everything will be fine. IMO the situation is already
better, i.e. people do find our resource pretty easily via
various search engines already. We are ranked almost on the top.

Our avg. page stats 2012:
  11k-16k Unique visitors
  20k-30k Visits
  700k-930k Hits
  130-220 GB Bandwidth

This month 20% of views went to the Wiki start page:
  *      113,050
  /wiki/  28,837

http://jogamp.org/stats/jogamp.org.201211.html

~Sven

Ok I will contact Netbeans guys.

Look at this tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EaaQrgvsL0

The guy extracts the DLL from the JAR whereas it is not required and he uses the wrong JRE the first time, what a crap!

On 11/25/2012 03:11 PM, gouessej [via jogamp] wrote:
> Look at this tutorial:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EaaQrgvsL0
>
> The guy extracts the DLL from the JAR whereas it is not required and he uses
> the wrong JRE the first time, what a crap!

Yeah .. lot's of things have changed since February 2012 :)

Maybe simply point them to our Wiki - done.

~Sven

I already did it several times.