That's a pretty cool link. The reviews are a hoot. I didn't peruse them sufficiently to know whether or not anybody called it a good Sumer-time read, or not.
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That's a pretty cool link. The reviews are a hoot. I didn't peruse them sufficiently to know whether or not anybody called it a good Sumer-time read, or not.
Bring Timeshifter back. He will be sure to start some sh*t
Where do I sign up?Quote:
Originally Posted by RobDog888
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I tried to bring back the contests, and the first one we had a huge participation... but the second one we had one submission
Yep i have to say even though i didn't participate in either (i struggle to find the time at the moment) i didn't even know the second one was under way as you stopped posting about it in Chit-chat. Not everyone just has the new posts screen up and so i think if you do decide to try it again then you should definitely add a post advertising it in chit-chat.Quote:
You cant be 100% successful all the time. Thats not the definition of a programmer. lol. Maybe it was the topic or content etc. for the second one
Also you subject for your first competition was better, taking a look at the second one i had never heard of that dice game.
Yes that thread and book alone have given me many hours of unbridled joy and made me happy i became a member.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I wonder if the name of the forum is anything to do with it??Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
VB is not what people are learning anymore at college or university and so when they go looking for a programming site the name doesn't resonate with them which is a shame as this is a great site.
I think I've been here over tens years now...since the beginning most of the answers I have needed come up in searches. Not only here but when using Google. My point is I don't think the number of new posts has a direct relationship to how many people are using the site. I don't post solutions that often because the experts here tend to know the nuts and bolts along with the whys. I'm content to help when I can and enjoy the show.
I'm usually on every workday day several times.
Here is the top of how many viewers there are just at this posting. I call it respectable for a site of this nature:
As a moderator do you have access to statistics on how many people visit the site daily that you can post? Just something to put some meat on the discussion.Quote:
I see my name!
Well, you're not doing your job then... the pill pusher Ed-something or other is really pushing it. 1 post in this thread 3-4posts in another.... spmming his own thread with 2 posts.... sweet jesus momma...Quote:
Unfortunately I do not. My job is to basically weed out the :spam:(which is a lot!!!) and to move threads. That would be something that Brad or Steve would have.
-tg
The Metro forum is pretty hilariously silent. Can you imagine if they'd created an Azure forum?
I'm not suggesting there is anything inappropriate about either techology. What it really tells us is a lot more about the types of members we have here. At least in terms of .Net, since Microsoft pretty much left VB6 progammers out in the cold on both.
My conclusion would be that the membership is mostly students, hobby plinkers, and vocational coders. The few professional and experienced programmers probably answer far more questions than they ask.
Of course I'm sure some are doing more than tinkering with Metro (or UAP, or whatever it is called tomorrow, maybe Golden Levitating Boots?) but they wouldn't ask about it here because the odds of good answers are better elsewhere. So it becomes a bit of a self-defeating situation: no questions being asked here, nobody asks new questions here. Basically, "the community doesn't live here."
Azure has no forum here but I'm sure it gets a slightly larger trickle of questions, though somewhat the same situation applies.
Not a chance. The acronym is taken.Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
Hey Woss, I guess all communities change over time but it definitely doesn't feel the way it used to on here.
I think the bulletin board format is getting a bit long in the tooth now, but I remember getting involved in some fantastic discussions and a few collaborative projects through this website which wouldn't be possible over the modern StackExchange format. There are people on this website who gave me more valuable knowledge than I ever got from a classroom and I'm forever indebted to them.
I almost wish I worked with .NET just so I could contribute as much as I used to be able to.
(Joking... I don't.)
Hey Pena :) LTNS.
Great observation. Yes, the forum model does have the ability to maintain a thread for a long time without seeking a specific end state - things can evolve for many months if there is recurring interest. It can foster a terrifically friendly and supportive atmosphere under the right circumstances.Quote:
Originally Posted by penagate
StackExchange (which is great for purely learning stuff in a hurry) is eager to divide broad topics down to specific and mostly esoteric points and solve them definitively and then analyse the crap out of it until the people who did all the work have been divorced from it by the machine. It can be sterile and soulless. That said the SE model is very interesting and it is always being reviewed and improved. It's probably a superb model for corporate CRM (or whatever they are calling it these days) systems to take inspiration from.
This, a thousand times over.Quote:
Originally Posted by penagate
What is this doom nonsense?
Ouhhh Doom, now that was a video game!!!
Still playing it.
Look who just got resurrected!!
No playing games here. too busy and any free time Im posting :D
Who got resurrected? -_-
I think he was a mafia boss a long time back.
Falwell was resurrected? Oops! Wrong thread.
I ran the Mafia game threads. IIRC, I played the character that was initially murdered.
You should run another! I missed the first one.
I have no idea why any of them would do such a thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Neither do I.Quote:
Originally Posted by mendhak
Of course, you aren't one of the insane ones.
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Originally Posted by Mendhak
The Ghost of Froggy past!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Mendhak, come back. We Shaggy needs some competition in the pun contests.
Isnt it Maria Month? -_-Quote:
Originally Posted by Arrow_Raider
I cant remember approving any of these posts!! :mad:
Atheist.... Welcome back.
Yuss! Everyone is coming back!
This forum is like sooooo 5 years ago
We will see how long it lasts...
NIIIINNNNE THOUUUUUUUUUUUUSAND YEARS!Quote:
Originally Posted by dclamp
-tg
I have returned from the dead and shall reopen the pub forthwith.
Where is my beloved Bodwad ?
Sorry, no dogs allowed.
But I miss him.:( He was cuddly and only rarely pooped on the carpet.
Mendhak, how's life man? LTNS!
Unlike my ex-girl friend who was poopy and rarely cuddled on the carpet.Quote:
Originally Posted by venerable bede
I have to say that I don't get that nostalgic about programming languages, or not at all, as I do with Games so I would just have to say that I will just miss persons leaving but not dead languages (as much sympathy I may have for VB6 I, well, I really don't care).
Having said that I'm relived to see that there are many members here that joined earlier than I did and are still active so I don't feel that I am the old timer here.
I however do miss the good ol' API C development - posting on early 1.0, 2.0 on Microsoft mobiles. Was having a good time till MS decided to do it .net oriented. And then they decided to create W8 mobiles. Who is having one now? Muharrrhaaarrr! :P OK off topic.
Now it's Judas Priest time!!!
I'm not sure Wossy actually left in the end. He got sucked into the Internet of Things and nobody ever truly escapes the tentacular clutches of that forum. There are dark things in there.
He does have probably the best avatar on the forum.Quote:
He was cuddly and only rarely pooped on the carpet
Ouch. That cat will be hollerin'.Quote:
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
Well I'm still hanging around! :-) And I'm glad to still see the regular names from when I joined such as kregg, dClamp, Mendhak and the likes. (Of course Wossy as well! :-D)
There's a few things I remember about CC in my day. (Which is not as far back as most here, but still a while ago...)
One was Wossy's brilliant jokes (Examples here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here
Hairball's obsession with Oceanebelle
Mendhak with his sciences... (And upside down text on his site...)
And how young and stupid I was back in the day!