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James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
Posted by James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Treehouse Leaderboard on the Big Screen

So I was inspired by Christina Hooper's question about recognizing badges earned in a company and it got me thinking.

If you are using Treehouse as a workplace professional development tool, and you want to show this off to your clients you could use something like Ducksboard and put it on an Internet-enabled TV to make Treehouse leaderboard.

I decided to write such a script proof-of-concept using the Treehouse teachers as an example team. It's up on github at barnettjw/treeboard

live version: http://treeboard.mooo.com/

If you wanted to make your own leaderboard

Step 1) Get a Internet TV

Step 2) Sign up for Ducksboard

Step 3) Create Custom Ducksboard widget

Step 4) [Install script]((https://github.com/barnettjw/treeboard)

4 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Looks like Dan Gorgone is in the lead on points but Jim Hoskins is ahead in the badge count :smile:

Christina Hooper
Christina Hooper
8,706 Points
Christina Hooper
Christina Hooper
8,706 Points

James Barnett That's a really awesome idea! I'm going to have to look into that more.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Christina Hooper - Glad you like it :smile:, as I said in the first post the proof-of-concept bash code I used is up on github. Let me know if you have any questions.

Christina Hooper
Christina Hooper
8,706 Points
Christina Hooper
Christina Hooper
8,706 Points

I think I want to find a way to somehow show their experience and skills... hmmm... sort of like a combination of this and the way the Treehouse profile uses the point system to show how skilled someone is in a particular thing. Sort of like with Dan and Jim - Dan has more training in CSS than Jim.

And I really really love the treehouse badges... if there were a way to integrate those...

Definitely got me thinking... :)