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One of the articles in this month's competition was not written by an individual author but rather was written by "Software Developer's Journal", which describes itself as "a magazine for professional programmers and developers publishing news from the software world and practical articles presenting very interesting ready programming solutions." See who's who[^].
I don't think that it's fair to ask individual authors to compete against a publication. Publications by their very nature are in the business of writing articles; their authors are usually paid to write articles and often make a living from it. Individual authors, on the other hand, are not usually being paid to write articles; ordinarily these individual authors write articles in their spare time, typically as a hobby or in an effort to "give back" to the community.
I recognize that these are generalizations that might not be universally applicable. For example, some individuals might have written their articles on "company time" and are therefore being paid for it. Some publications might be "public interest" style publications, strictly not-for-profit.
But I still think that there's a dividing line and that it's not fair for publications to compete in the "monthly competition".
Best always,
Mike
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I agree. I'm sure that the publishing company would not care about receiving the prize for First Place (such as the Dundas Charting package). But for the rest of us, winning a cool software package is an excellent extra incentive to keep writing high quality articles for the CodeProject.
Note: I would feel this way even if one of my articles was not currently in the Article of the Month competition! 
Josh
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You can email Chris about this - in case he misses this post.
Regards,
Nish
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Mike O`Neill wrote: One of the articles in this month's competition was not written by an individual author but rather was written by "Software Developer's Journal", which describes itself as "a magazine for professional programmers and developers publishing news from the software world and practical articles presenting very interesting ready programming solutions."
This is why I didn't vote for it and as of this posting, doesn't look like they are doing so hot in the competition. Not right that they already have 7 articles, and they are probably going to get "Platinum" membership long before me  All they need is one article from 25 different authors and then they become platinum. I, as an INDIVIDUAL, have to write 25 articles of my own. Chris needs to take a look at this.
Paul
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I agree with you.
Just one question. What difference makes being a platinum member rather than a, say, silver member?
Regards,
FG.
A polar bear is a bear whose coordinates has been changed in terms of sine and cosine.
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he article was written by Arkadiusz Merta, not by Software Developer's Journal[^] but I understand your concerns. SDJ is named as the conbtributor since they kindly allowed us to republish the article which was first published in their magazine.
I guess the question is: what would be the difference if Arkadiusz had submitted the article himself instead of simply allowing SDJ to send us the articles of his and other fellow contributors? We don't ban articles because theu have been published elsewhere.
Note: SDJ is not the CMP owned Software Development Magazine[^].
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
-- modified at 16:55 Saturday 15th April, 2006
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Chris Maunder wrote: I guess the question is: what would be the difference if Arkadiusz had submitted the article himself instead of simply allowing SDJ to send us the articles of his and other fellow contributors?
Why didn't he? If his article wins, then Software Developer's Journal gets the credit. In that case, would SDJ get the prize or Arkadiusz?
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Fellow CodeProject consumers,
In the end, who cares. CodeProject has setup one of the premier collaboration sites for development. In some ways even better than MSDN. The idea of rating articles is subjective at best, since each article is specific to a set of consumers.
In the end we all win, because of the sheer amount of information CodeProject has made available to all of us.
What if President Bush submitted a technical article here. We all know he wouldn't have been the author, but if it had merit regarding something I was developing, I'd still be glad it made it to the site.
Let's keep our eye on the puck people; CodeProject is a great asset to us all. With or without an occasional hickup.
Cordially,
Greg (aka Developer with 25 years of experience, and around when sharing of knowledge via the internet wasn't).
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gstangler2 wrote: In the end we all win, because of the sheer amount of information CodeProject has made available to all of us.
Good point
gstangler2 wrote: around when sharing of knowledge via the internet wasn't
Yup, remember those days when my source of info was Byte!, Compute, and (a then fledgling) Dr. Dobb's Journal (who I still subscribe to ).
Paul
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