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Approximately forever 
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Chris Maunder
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Microsoft C++ MVP
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Odd. I thought I'd been more long winded than that before, but don't recall seeing it before.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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Dear friends of CodeProject staff,
I have a question about article competition and about prize assignments.
In march I published the DataGridView Filter Popup[^] article which received good responses from other CodeProject users.
The latest newsletter announces the winners of march. I agree with the choice of the Perceptor: An artificially intelligent guided navigation system for WPF[^] article as best overall article, but I don't agree with the choice of the Multi Remote Desktop Client .NET[^] as the best c# article.
Of course I always appreciate who share something with others but I think that the proposed code is substantially a wapper around a preexisting activex control and that the article content is very laconic.
I am quite disappointed and I would know which are the rules applied in designating the "best" article. I just realized that the rating and popularity indicators don't matter. Nor it doesn't matter if the article proposes an original solution and if it contains a comprehensive explanation.
I share my code because I like to think I've done something useful to others and to learn from others. I think everyone is encouraged to do more and better when he or she receives positive feedbacks. The others appreciations is fundamental and a prize is a kind of formal appreciation about the done work.
Considering that every competition provides its rules, I don't understand why you don't make public your rules.
Morever, I don't understand why you don't write the reasons that brought to award an article.
Thank you very much
V.R.
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Winners are chosen by the readers, not by us. I've updated the rules on the Monthly comp page[^] to make this clearer (they should appear in half an hour or so)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I agree with you, Vincenzo; competitions rule is not clear. Also, you know that with a server at hands, you can receive messages that you are not permitted to see a public page, you can have postings mixed in any way against you, and many more; also, sometimes claiming for being a winner and writing about a programmer's difficult life might lead to win a competition with a non technical article.
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Permalink gives:
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/View.aspx?fid=352449&msg=2988490[^].
BTW: each time I edit such message and submit it, I get an error, anyway the message is actually updated correctly. The error message is:
An Error Occurred
Ticket: (No ticket provided - possibly an error in the error-system)
Error: An error occurred in this page. The error has been recorded and the site administrator informed.
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-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
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Sorry about that - we're working on a fix at the moment.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I see is fixed now, thank you very much.
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
-- Iain Clarke
[My articles]
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Hi ,
im unable to download demo project from..
"http://www.codeproject.com/KB/COM/CompleteActiveX.aspx"
Please help me out.....
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What problem are you seeing? "Can't download" doesn't give me a lot to go on. Have you retried?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Works for me
DaveBTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)
Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)
Why are you using VB6? Do you hate yourself? (Christian Graus)
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We are having problems with spoofing of authors, how about if an author is added an email is sent to that person and doesn't proceed until the added author approves it?
In addition removal of an author should only be possible after apporval by all authors listed.
Yes, a pain but this is getting out of hand.
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I do need to do something but part of the issue is that sometimes email simply doesn't make it through to some members because of over enthusiastic spam blockers. This could mean articles are stuck in limbo.
I guess an email "Please approve this" can be sent to all involved, along with instructions to each author to pass this on to the other authors to ensure they get it.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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That seems reasonable. Since all authors involved in something should be taking a look at the post editing version anyway spotting cases where the filters were hungry shouldn't be a real difficulty.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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That's actually almost coherent. Some (most?) of the blog entries have outstripped all previous records of crapdom.
[update] I've just been through all this guy's blog postings. What a huge pile of crap. Whoever approved these should be whipped and then banned.[/update]
modified on Friday, April 17, 2009 3:07 PM
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Hans,
Hans Dietrich wrote: I've just been through all this guy's blog postings. What a huge pile of crap.
Really sad to hear such a comment. I'll delete all my posts and will remove my blog from Codeproject RSS feed.
Regards,
Jijo.
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Bring 'em back. My blogs also appeared severly mangled, and Chris and Co sorted them out for me. Please don't deprive CP of them just because a technical SNAFU got in the way.
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Hans Dietrich wrote: [update] I've just been through all this guy's blog postings. What a huge pile of crap. Whoever approved these should be whipped and then banned.[/update]
Hey Hans,
I went through his blog : http://weseetips.com/[^]
It's not earth shattering stuff, but they seem to be pretty normal blog entries. Perhaps the CP code didn't pull the entire content and may have just got the first few sentences?
Anyway the guy has removed all his blog entries stung by your feedback, so I guess there's no point in discussing this now
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I actually like his blog.
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
-- Iain Clarke
[My articles]
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Nuked
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Well, for one thing, you're trying to put your article text into the DESCRIPTION. Pay attention to what you're doing.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Hi John,
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Well, for one thing, you're trying to put your article text into the DESCRIPTION. Pay attention to what you're doing.
I've just added my RSS feed to technical blog. I've done nothing else. Well, how can i correct it? Any idea?
Regards,
Jijo.
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