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Thanks787225-Mar-15 19:30

25-Mar-15 19:30

Mess cleared after report. Edited the post in order to save the article.

Programmer : A machine that converts coffee into code !

phil.o25-Mar-15 19:56

25-Mar-15 19:56

Gone

Smile | :)

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.

Product spam in QA

Thomas Daniels25-Mar-15 7:08

25-Mar-15 7:08

Spam: Please check this out[^]
Spammer: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=11526073[^]

The quick red ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.

Re: Product spam in QA

Tom Deketelaere25-Mar-15 9:02

Tom Deketelaere

25-Mar-15 9:02

Agreed it's in the wrong forum, but should we nuke him for that?

We have a free tools forum:
http://www.codeproject.com/Forums/1627782/Free-Tools.aspx[^]
And as far as I can see the "tool" he created is free.

So perhaps a comment that he should post it there should suffice? And then close the "non-question".

Tom

Re: Product spam in QA

ZurdoDev25-Mar-15 9:35

25-Mar-15 9:35

I agree.

Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

Re: Product spam in QA

Thanks787225-Mar-15 19:38

25-Mar-15 19:38

http://www.codeproject.com/suggestions.aspx?msg=5028362#xx5028362xx[^]

Programmer : A machine that converts coffee into code !

Re: Product spam in QA

Tom Deketelaere26-Mar-15 1:50

Tom Deketelaere

26-Mar-15 1:50

Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

Isn't this article spam or, at best, off-topic?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov25-Mar-15 3:33

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

25-Mar-15 3:33

I think the article Exam: 70-486-Developing ASP.NET MVC Web Applications[^]
by http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=4072087[^] is nothing but spam.

It looks like participation in the commercial activity around those Microsoft certifications. What science, technology or software engineering does it discuss, what does it teach? Nothing. This is a set of references, with highlighted priced for books, and, among them, some free of charge resources. Money, money…

I strongly believe we should never accept any posts related to certification. It has nothing to do with the topics of our site, or, say, real education. This is nothing but bureaucracy built around software and developers. And, as it turns out, commerce…

If we accept discussion or certification, why not discussing, say, salaries of software engineers? Smile | :)

Smile | :)

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

modified 25-Mar-15 10:19am.

Re: Isn't this article spam or, at best, off-topic?

Manfred Rudolf Bihy25-Mar-15 3:56

Manfred Rudolf Bihy

25-Mar-15 3:56

Well said Sergey! I'm no friend of this Micro$oft money machine either.
First of all the prices are way through the roof and secondly what do you learn?
You learn for passing a test.
No deep understanding!
No real insight!

I

hate

it! Period!

P.S.: Way back in 1999 I got to know some MCAs our company hired to take care of our infrastructure. They weren't worth the money of the paper that certificate was printed on.

"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"

Ron White, Comedian

What's the use?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov25-Mar-15 4:10

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

25-Mar-15 4:10

Thank you, Manfred.

Ah, now you are about the use of such certifications… Totally agree with you. I never ever met a person for whom the certifications were useful in any way. This is just scam. If some companies give some importance to it, this is their problem (and again, no benefits). Nothing can replace systematic study. But can it provide a little help? I don't thing so. It can help creation of the illusion of knowledge, which is worse than lack of knowledge. Overall, I think the effect is predominantly negative, not even counting the loss of money.

Also, take a look at this recent article: .NET Interview Questions and Answers - Code Examples. I down-voted and explained why I think the article is bad:
.NET Interview Questions and Answers - Code Examples.

One more: Top 10 HTML 5 Interview Questions.

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

modified 25-Mar-15 10:17am.

Re: What's the use?

Tom Deketelaere25-Mar-15 4:46

Tom Deketelaere

25-Mar-15 4:46

Personally I agree with you on the whole certificates thing.

But this:

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov wrote:
If some companies give some importance to it, this is their problem (and again, no benefits)

is not entirely true. The company's do get some benefit from it, better license prices, free licenses, ...
It's not a measure of knowledge tho (as they would like to believe), not even close to it.

So yeah it's all about money.

Tom

Re: What's the use?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov25-Mar-15 5:09

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

25-Mar-15 5:09

Whatever… I just don't care about that. This is still their problems. Smile | :)

Smile | :)

It doesn't make all the certification scam (as I think) any better.

Thank you for your comment.

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Re: What's the use?

Tom Deketelaere25-Mar-15 8:57

Tom Deketelaere

25-Mar-15 8:57

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov wrote:
This is still their problems

True

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov wrote:
It doesn't make all the certification scam (as I think) any better

Also true

I guess programmers have different view on these certificates Smile | :)

Smile | :)

Tom

Re: Isn't this article spam or, at best, off-topic?

den2k8825-Mar-15 4:16

25-Mar-15 4:16

I totally agree. This is advertisement pure and simple. Yes, it regards programming; no, it's not an article or a resource of CodeProject.

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OriginalGriff25-Mar-15 2:49

25-Mar-15 2:49

This: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=11554438[^]
Is asking QA questions (deleted) about colonic treatments.

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov25-Mar-15 3:34

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

25-Mar-15 3:34

10th...

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Plagiarised would be article.

OriginalGriff24-Mar-15 23:55

24-Mar-15 23:55

This: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=164197&aid=889924[^]
From this: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=3645986[^]
Is a copy'n'paste from this: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn217895.aspx[^]

He also has another badly formatted "article" in the queue: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=164339&aid=890172[^] and though I can;t see where that comes from, I'd suspect it's plagiarised as well. If he goes, there isn't a lot of point in letting this through even if he fixes the format, is there?

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Re: Plagiarised would be article.

phil.o25-Mar-15 0:36

25-Mar-15 0:36

No, obviously there isn't.
I'm trying to find the source for his second article.

[Edit] Can't find the source of the second one, either. It seems like a compilation of several codes gathered from several places and mixed together to produce some sort of quick how to. [/Edit]

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.

modified 25-Mar-15 7:03am.

Richard Deeming25-Mar-15 2:23

Richard Deeming

25-Mar-15 2:23

Final kick applied.

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

Spammer from moderation queue - Gone

OriginalGriff24-Mar-15 21:05

24-Mar-15 21:05

This: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=11553180[^]
Cheap rubbish in French.

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

modified 25-Mar-15 4:05am.

Spammer in the Lounge...

Agent__00724-Mar-15 20:48

24-Mar-15 20:48

Post: http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=5027563#xx5027563xx[^]

Member: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=11553286[^]

You have just been Sharapova'd.

Mitchell J.24-Mar-15 22:24

24-Mar-15 22:24

Gone

Plagiarised would be Article

Rajesh waran24-Mar-15 19:05

24-Mar-15 19:05

This article http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=164298&aid=890101[^]
is copied full content from http://jqueryasp.net/modal-popup-using-jquery-asp-net/[^]

Member http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=11549888[^]

~R@JEES#

Even author accepts it

Thanks787224-Mar-15 19:26

24-Mar-15 19:26

dispaly gridview in pop up window[^] Laugh | :laugh:

Laugh | :laugh:

Received +5. Looks like he has sock puppet also.

Programmer : A machine that converts coffee into code !

Re: Even author accepts it

Rajesh waran24-Mar-15 20:12

24-Mar-15 20:12

Yes, Posting it as solution and continue with new article. $Shucks | :-\$

~R@JEES#

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