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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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Eddy Vluggen wrote: What distinct feature that managers require, would we (as developers) lack?
- tact
- ability to communicate with stupid people (eg, users) without becoming rude or insulting them
- ability to anticipate top management requests
- ability to sit through long, boring, and non-productive meetings
- ability to take hands off mouse and keyboard while holding a conversation
- ability to look people in the eye when talking to them
- ability to write plans and reports that can be understood outside the department
- ability to work normal hours (ie, hours that 90% of the company works)
- ability to comprehend and accommodate the business objectives of the organization
- ability to manage arrogant developers
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Thanks for making a convenient list
I are troll
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Hans Dietrich wrote:
1. tact
2. ability to communicate with stupid people (eg, users) without becoming rude or insulting them
3. ability to anticipate top management requests
4. ability to sit through long, boring, and non-productive meetings
5. ability to take hands off mouse and keyboard while holding a conversation
6. ability to look people in the eye when talking to them
7. ability to write plans and reports that can be understood outside the department
8. ability to work normal hours (ie, hours that 90% of the company works)
9. ability to comprehend and accommodate the business objectives of the organization
10. ability to manage arrogant developers
So, how many would qualify as business/social skill? (Where #7 represents the inability or lack of interest in communicating outside of your area of professional interest).
The impatience, lack of tact, and lack of accomodation reinforces the impression of arrogance - but contradicts point #6, which is a clear sign of insecurity. Here we see the sterotypical developer: socially inept outside of their domain, rude and arrogant within it. Is this what constrains developer's careers?
I HAVE seen people like this rise to the role of IT managers only to fail when their team sees then as impatient and contemptuous. Often, they cannot delegate, end up doing everyone else's work and the resulting stress and rushed results reflect poorly on everyone.
So, would a company look at IT managers and leaders like this and think:
1) We can't let someone like this manage people outside of IT.
2) If we brought in a manager from outside of IT to manage an IT project, their communication and team-building skills would more than make up for their lack of technical expertise.
Are these scenarios realistic? I also believe that nowadays, these stereotypes are in the minority - but is the stereotype so prevalent that developers cannot escape it?
Carlo
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CrashAlpha wrote: Are these scenarios realistic? I also believe that nowadays, these stereotypes are in the minority
Based on working on different contracts at dozens of companies over the last ten years, I disagree. Developers as a group have different mindsets and motivations than other workers. The exceptional developer who can achieve a global awareness of the business environment is rare. The developer who can function effectively and successfully as a manager is rarer still.
I agree that it might happen, especially if a company supported and encouraged developers to take this career path. However, I have never seen a company do more than pay lip service to this.
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Hans Dietrich wrote: Based on working on different contracts at dozens of companies over the last ten years, I disagree.
Well, so much for my attempt at diplomacy! Like you, I have been contracting for quite some time - in my case, 20 years this year. Most of my work is outside of Canada - and especially outside of my home province of Quebec (difference rate expectations). While working in the US, I found it seemed more likely that I would meet non-steroetypical developers than at home in Canada. Typically, thse non-sterotypical developers would be musicians, and since I briefly worked as a professional musician myself there may be bias that creeps in. I make no comment on whether professional musicians are seen as management material or not.
But let's say that you are right amd the developer's reputation as socially awkward and professionally myopic is well-deserved. You suggest that the companies themselves could be doing more to address this, but aren't.
Is this because developers are too valuable where they are? If so, we can't expect the company's to change, can we? Given that assumption, would you advise developers with ambitions to rise to higher pay levels and unrestricted career paths to NOT aspire to becoming "senior developers"?
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