September/October Article contenders
It is time to vote for the September/early October articles to determine which should receive $200. Please vote for the articles you think are the best (you are voting for articles, not people). Your votes will help determine two of the three articles to be awarded. I reserve the right as site admin to award the third (although your votes will influence the third winner).
Vote now!
Introduction to PDL By isemenov
How to Handle Currencies By Anwar-ul- Haque
Object Oriented Ajax By VectorX
Simple Thread: Part II By Arjay
Persisting the scroll position of child DIV's using MS AJAX By Steven Berkovitz
Using Web Standards to Simplify Web Control Development By Steven Berkovitz
Customising Your Desktop Using Visual Basic.NET 2005 By Hannes du Preez
FTPS vs. SFTP: What to Choose By Eugene Mayevski
An "Outlook Like" Control By Adel Eddin
Dynamic C++ Objects By Arne Steinarson
Creating a Dockable Panel-Controlmanager Using C#, Part 2 By JonnyPoet
How To Retrieve EMC Centera Cluster/Pool Capabilities By Adel Eddin
SFL 2.0: Service Framework Library for Native Windows Service Applications, Part 1 By Igor Vartanov
Distributed Network Object By Ejaz Anwer
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We are now accepting and publishing articles for the next round. Articles received between October 16th and the end of November will be in the running. Submit articles early to let people have time to read them!
[1541 byte] By [
Brad Jones] at [2007-11-20 11:37:09]
# 1 Re: September/October Article contenders
There were a good amount of articles, and each was good in its own way.
I tend to be a bit critical of the JavaScript and AJAX based articles, but in my opinion, they just don't truly cut it. I can't consider them really good articles.
EDIT: I liked that the voters are hidden. I think that minimizes some peer-pressure.
# 2 Re: September/October Article contenders
I think these past few weeks, everyone is busy writing articles, no time to read articles. Haha...
# 3 Re: September/October Article contenders
I think these past few weeks, everyone is busy writing articles, no time to read articles. Haha...I really liked the Simple Thread Part II Its very helpful,and explained me some things I never had understood before. Customizing the desktop shows up a lot of API stuff and gives a good insight into how to control the desktop with an own program. so this is very helpful when customizing the dektop for self designed programe is needed.
I liked that the voters are hidden. I think that minimizes some peer-pressure
Yes and I fully agree with you. :wave:
# 4 Re: September/October Article contenders
By the way Brad, it's contenders, not contendors. I hope you don't mind me saying...:D
# 5 Re: September/October Article contenders
By the way Brad, it's contenders, not contendors. I hope you don't mind me saying...:D
I don't mind at all :). Corrected ;)
# 6 Re: September/October Article contenders
Good amount of articles this time :thumb: and well spread out amongst basic/advanced as well as covering a wider area ( creative solutions, tutorials, frameworks ) :thumb:
Was harder making a decision this time :D
I too like the fact that the voters are anonymous. Would it also be possible to reveal the poll results only when the poll is completed ? That could help in not influencing peoples' decisions by the current standings..
# 7 Re: September/October Article contenders
I too like the fact that the voters are anonymous. Would it also be possible to reveal the poll results only when the poll is completed ? That could help in not influencing peoples' decisions by the current standings..I thought, that it only could be seen, when you already have voted, isn't it ?. So how this can influence people at their votings ? Or is it visible to people, before the voting is done by them too ?
# 8 Re: September/October Article contenders
I thought, that it only could be seen, when you already have voted, isn't it ?. So how this can influence people at their votings ? Or is it visible to people, before the voting is done by them too ?
Well, here (http://www.dev-archive.com/forum/showthread.php?t=437325) are the results of a test I did. I was logged out and I could see who voted.
# 9 Re: September/October Article contenders
I thought, that it only could be seen, when you already have voted, isn't it ?. So how this can influence people at their votings ? Or is it visible to people, before the voting is done by them too ?
You can click "View Poll Results" link to view the results even though you haven't vote.
# 10 Re: September/October Article contenders
All these articles are really great, and it is so nice to see so many articles this time! Well done to everyone that contributed! :thumb:
I really like the fact that the voters are hidden. There isn't a "View Poll Results" link in this poll, because the voters are hidden, as it should be.
Good luck everyone! :)
# 11 Re: September/October Article contenders
I saw the results before and after I voted. Just wrapped it up.
Brad's article wasn't there?
# 12 Re: September/October Article contenders
I saw the results before and after I voted. Just wrapped it up.
Brad's article wasn't there?Yes I just tested it I used another machine and didn't log in and was able to see results without voting.
This is maybe a bug and should be handled.
# 13 Re: September/October Article contenders
The polls are a part of the vBulletin software, so they operate the way the operate. Overall, I think it is okay. If someone wants to see the results before voting, they can. That is a bit goofy, but hey....
My articles are not eligible to win, so no point in listing them.
Brad!
# 14 Re: September/October Article contenders
The polls are a part of the vBulletin software, so they operate the way the operate. Overall, I think it is okay. If someone wants to see the results before voting, they can. That is a bit goofy, but hey....
My articles are not eligible to win, so no point in listing them.
Brad!
# 15 Re: September/October Article contenders
How do I add mine to the list? I features humor :p
# 16 Re: September/October Article contenders
How do I add mine to the list? I features humor :p
Well, in this Announcement (http://www.dev-archive.com/forum/announcement.php?f=11&announcementid=44) ( which is on every forum of CG ), Brad explains exactly how you can submit an article. Once submitted, reviewed & published, people will be able to vote for your article too.
# 17 Re: September/October Article contenders
Huh! What just happened? My article is no longer there :(
# 18 Re: September/October Article contenders
Huh! What just happened? My article is no longer there :(
It wouldn't have been there if you haven't submitted it. As explained in my previous post, you must submit an article, it gets reviewed, then, possibly published.
The Chit Chat Forum (http://www.dev-archive.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=22) is for kidding around, not this ( the Feedback Forum ).
# 19 Re: September/October Article contenders
The Chit Chat Forum (http://www.dev-archive.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=22) is for kidding around, not this ( the Feedback Forum ).
Yes (I'm agreeing with Hannes) - if you are not serious, then please say so. Posts in any forum outside of chit chat are going to be taken as serious.
Brad
# 20 Re: September/October Article contenders
You don't have to gang up on me you know :( But I thought it may have been a good idea to feature a little bit of humor as well as the main info, because I found some of the other articles dull and boring.
Is humor wrong?
Thanks.
# 21 Re: September/October Article contenders
Is humor wrong?
It is when people don't realize it is humor. :eek:
And I wasn't sure if your comments were serious or not. As such, I wasn't sure if I needed to post information and links on articles. Additionally, when you said yours was missing, I spent time looking in our queues and various other areas within the site to verify if you had submitted an article....
I took you seriously because I didn't know you were joking around.
Bottom line, I little bit of fun is okay, but you need to be absolutely sure everyone knows you are joking around. A lot of times, where you say something is as important as what you say. If you jokingly yell fire in a theater, not everyone is going to think it is funny. ;)
Brad!
# 22 Re: September/October Article contenders
lol :p
It had the word region in it(just in case your looking for it).
Thanks.
# 23 Re: September/October Article contenders
It never made it to the review board. What was the title? Did you submit it through the manner mentioned/linked by Hannes?
# 24 Re: September/October Article contenders
One thing I forgot to mention...
Back when I first submitted an article, I didn't understand some things. You cannot edit your article without re-submitting it. There should be two categories when viewing your non-published articles (Pending Review and Working). It needs to be submitted and left in the Pending Review section until you receive and e-mail stating whether it was published or not.
# 25 Re: September/October Article contenders
To add to what PeejAvery said, once you are in the process of submitting an article, amke sure you click the button labeled "Submit for posting". Only when this button is clicked, it will proceed to the Reviewing queue. Also, make sure to look at your My Articles (http://www.dev-archive.com/myarticles.php) page, where it shows the progress of each article, as explained by PeejAvery.
# 26 Re: September/October Article contenders
I'm going to start a new thread called "Suggestions for improving the article submission processes". I'd like to hear any specific, constructive suggestions for making things better, clearer, and easier.
Brad!
# 27 Re: September/October Article contenders
It had the word region in it(just in case your looking for it).
Found it! It is titled C++ Win32: Inverting Regions. But, this is a thread submitted to dev-archive Individual FAQs, not the articles. Any C++ moderator can review that post.
The articles is not directly related to the forums. If you want to submit an article, go to the dev-archive homepage and click "Submit an Article" on the sidebar. Or go to http://www.dev-archive.com/login.php?mas=1&url=%2Fedit-article.php.
# 28 Re: September/October Article contenders
Where's the voters
The votes remained stagnent for a couple of days now.
Vote people, vote! :p
# 29 Re: September/October Article contenders
Where's the voters
With the number of people visiting (and lurking) on the forum, there should be tons of votes.... It makes it hard to put these to a public vote when few people are willing to actually cast a vote...... :sick:
Brad!
# 30 Re: September/October Article contenders
With the number of people visiting (and lurking) on the forum, there should be tons of votes.... It makes it hard to put these to a public vote when few people are willing to actually cast a vote...... :sick:
Brad!Honestly voting is a work too my friends as then people needs to read the articles. And readimng them its not so easy to do a decision maybe, as if you are specialized to a specific language, you have maybe difficulties to decide. As people in this forum normally are honest in their doing ( I assume :D ) so its maybe really difficult for them to do a decision.So this way I think its a big number of readers of posts, but only a limited number of voters. Thats what I think why the number of voters is small.
