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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[^] 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 designing 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.
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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Well, I'm glad to see you're concerned about article quality, because otherwise I don't think you would have posted this. There are many good reasons why I post articles here, but the article competition isn't one of them. Reason? Because most of the people voting probably have not - and will never - use the article, and therefore haven't a clue about whether the article is useful or not.
Over time, you will get many good comments. Value these, and try to use even the bad comments to improve your articles; the serious members here will notice and appreciate them. I think you know by now that there are many immature members here - don't let these people color your experience. Write for yourself, because you like sharing; for the serious members, because they will appreciate it; and to improve your code, because you will get good comments.
The article competitions are CodeProject's version of beauty pageants; they are superficial and largely meaningless. Just ignore them - I do, and I don't vote in them either.
I hope you will continue to write the very best articles you can.
p.s. The CP admins don't read this forum regularly, so if you really want an answer, you should post in the Site Bugs / Suggestions forum.
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Hans,
thank you for your answer.
I share my code because I like to think I've done something useful to others and to learn from others.
Which is the measure of the usefulness? Feedbacks like comments, votes and, why not, prizes.
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.
That said, I'm surprised to read that a serious site like CodeProject adopt superficial and meaningless beauty pageants. Why? Which is the purpose?
I would like one of this three things will be done:
- Competition will be removed at all
- Competition will become serious, with public rules and prize reasons.
- Competition will be explicitelly declared as a facetious roulette game.
I will follow your suggestion, posting my doubts in the Site Bugs / Suggestions forum.
thank you again
Vin
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Try to look past the superficial. Take the long view; in the end, the serious members will give your articles the votes they deserve. You will only make yourself unhappy to expect anything else.
I wish you the best of luck.
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Hans,
thank you.
you're right.
Vin
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Hey,
Is it possible once and article is moved out of the unedited contributions sections to still ad an author (or co-author) to it?
Cheers
BN
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This is more of a site question than an article-writing question. The CP admins don't look at this forum regularly, so you might want to ask this question on the Site Bugs / Suggestions forum.
p.s. I'm not sure what the answer is, but I suspect it is "Yes - contact a site admin for help". You can contact a site admin by emailing submit at codeproject dot com.
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Ok, ty for the help 
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Yep. Just please send us an e-mail at submit@codeproject.com and we'd be happy to add it for you
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project
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devimages wrote: So if you are a gold or silver advertiser in the product catalog would you be eligible to write such an article?
This is a little confusing because there are gold and silver members, and also gold and silver catalog entries. They have nothing to do with each other. Gold and silver catalog entries refer to the paid catalog entries. There is also a free catalog entry called "bronze".
devimages wrote: If so how would it be submitted?
If you want to submit a free "bronze" catalog listing, go to the Catalog entry on the green menu bar above. You want the Post a Catalog Item menu entry.
If you have any problems, you can post a question for the CP admins on the Site Bugs / Suggestions forum.
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devimages wrote: Lets assume I have a paid-for advert in the Product Catalog. Does this make me eligible to publish an article in the Product Showcase?
I don't know.
devimages wrote: what specifically are the qualifying criteria to allow such an article to be published?
You basically just pay for it - see my post above for link to Product Showcase info.
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An article about a simple and short class using anonymous pipe for inter-process communication could be interesting to someone?
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I look forward to seeing it.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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Thanks for your reply. The article is on the way.
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I have posted an article called File Searcher in C#[^] .
On April 8, I wanted to update the text and the source code of this article. So I wrote an email to submit@codeproject.com. The email contained 2 attachments: "ViewHtml.aspx.htm" (an updated version of the html text) and "FileSearcher.zip" (the new source code). The email also contained the name of the article and its URL in the email body.
- But the article still has not been updated! What did I do wrong?
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Manfred Bittersam wrote: But the article still has not been updated! What did I do wrong?
Probably nothing. That was only 2 days ago. The CP editors have some backlog, so I wouldn't worry for another few days. If you're really concerned, post a message on the Suggestions forum, and ask what the status is; I don't think the editors read this forum regularly.
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Hello all - I'm an independent contractor, and would like to do some research into the stature of senior developers within busines culture in the past few years.
Speaking to senior developers in the domain of business programming - we were all attracted to business programming because we were respected and the pay was very good.
But is this still true? Do we have the same career opportunities as our colleagues in - say - sales, marketing or finance? Can we expect to rise as high in a company, or even within our own professional hierarchy? Is our opinion as valued as our other colleagues outside of development? If we do rise in the company, do we have to shed (or even deny) our technical expertise? Do we find positions above us are filled by NON technical people, because of a belief that general business skills are more valuable than our analytical skills and intimate knowledge of business processes?
I have heard fellow seniors complain that they feel they are being sidelined in their company as their opinions and input are quickly dismissed or patronised - often by the same people who felt they had valuable input and insight (or perhaps, demands and complaints) for IT. Does this attitude really exist, and does it hold you back when you are ready for advancement?
And - ultimately - is their a salary ceiling for developers? As high as it may be, is it actually a dead-end with few opportunities for advancement?
I think an article on this topic would be interesting to senior developers, or up-and-comers who are considering where their career paths might go. Or, has this article already been written? I'd love to see a reference to it.
I would greatly appreciate any comments, anecdotes, rants or insights on this topic.
Thanks to all,
Carlo
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This sounds like it could be an interesting article. I say 'could' because it will depend entirely on the data you collect to back up your analysis. Obviously, with too little data, the results would be questionable.
How do you plan to collect enough data to support a competent analysis?
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I wanted to get some observations from others to see if there was anything to this. My own professional experience was making me suspect that this was the case, but I certainly wouldn't write about just that.
I have talked to three placement agents about this - two in Montreal, one in Europe - and they generally agree. One exception was in investment banking: developers working within Swiss banks had become frustrated with their limited horizons and were able to make the jump into investment banking. You can guess what shape they are in now.
I just can't think of any non-IT manager that rose to their position from senior developer. I have met managers who have had SOME development experience, but they had jumped tracks so early that they would not have risen to senior. By contrast, I have met IT managers with little or no technical experience (most recently, a CIO of a $250M company).
Observations from others might give me an idea on where to look for hard data, which is what brought me here.
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Good luck. I will look forward to reading your article.
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CrashAlpha wrote: I just can't think of any non-IT manager that rose to their position from senior developer.
What distinct feature that managers require, would we (as developers) lack?
I are troll 
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