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I fully agree, Paul. And let me qualify by saying I submitted an article as well, but it was for an Excel addin, not Outlook or VStudio, so I was not eligible.
Unless we start paying the CP staff's salaries, we can only expect a best effort. And yes, things will fall through the cracks. And who has time to compile and vote on every article ever written here on addins?
I don't need a tshirt that badly.
onwards and upwards...
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I appreciate the sentiments but if you feel this strongly about it then why not mention it on the page the competition was first announced? With competitions it's more about steering people's ideas in a certain direction to think about things they may not have thought about before than trying to find the perfect solution for a given problem. I'm open to having a range of competitions to find the best article on a given topic, but that simply wasn't the goal here - hence the time limit.
With regards to Oz's entry it did include new functionality so was included. With the VS6 entry that was simply a search filter being too keen and me being too blurry eyed. It's been removed.
Just to prove that this is more about having fun than being organised I've added a late entry from an eager programmer who has been hassling me all morning to accept his (extremely late) entry.
Oh - and Rama Krishna automatically wins a T-shirt for being a legend.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
With regards to Oz's entry it did include new functionality so was included
I believe that Oz's entry should've won along time ago (personally) but the first argument was that this article has been under development for at least 2 years and not 2-3 months like all the others.
Chris Maunder wrote:
I'm open to having a range of competitions to find the best article on a given topic, but that simply wasn't the goal here - hence the time limit.
To prove that there was a time for development and
Chris Maunder wrote:
I've added a late entry from an eager programmer who has been hassling me all morning to accept his (extremely late) entry.
He should comply with the term and conditions of the compention and accepted it.
Chris Maunder wrote:
With competitions it's more about steering people's ideas in a certain direction to think about things they may not have thought about before than trying to find the perfect solution for a given problem
In order to compete there should be a fairness in equal proportions among all competitors. Our world has already too many of that, surely CP could do without it!
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Chris Maunder wrote:
With regards to Oz's entry it did include new functionality so was included
I believe that Oz's entry should've won along time ago (personally) but the first argument was that this article has been under development for at least 2 years and not 2-3 months like all the others.
Chris Maunder wrote:
I'm open to having a range of competitions to find the best article on a given topic, but that simply wasn't the goal here - hence the time limit.
To prove that there was a time for development Oz entry was accepted.
Chris Maunder wrote:
I've added a late entry from an eager programmer who has been hassling me all morning to accept his (extremely late) entry.
He should comply with the term and conditions of the compention and accepted it.
Chris Maunder wrote:
With competitions it's more about steering people's ideas in a certain direction to think about things they may not have thought about before than trying to find the perfect solution for a given problem
In order to compete there should be a fairness in equal proportions among all competitors. Our world has already too many of that, surely CP could do without it!
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Anonymous wrote:
In order to compete there should be a fairness in equal proportions among all competitors
Oz's article is already very popular, how can it be fair????
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Anonymous wrote:
Oz's article is already very popular, how can it be fair????
Just because an article is already popular it does not give the right of excluding it from the competition, however even though it was re-written for VS.NET it raises arguments about the competition  . I believe that the article should stay even though the project was already planned, designed, tested and implemented...actually that's why it should stay, go to the authors home page and see how much effort he has put in the project! 
Le's all calm down and enjoy the ride 
ES
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First off, I want to offer my personal opinion to what was directly said about my entry: Although Line Counter has been around for a long time, it has been updated to comply to with the rules of the competition (e.g. external XML source, VS.NET 2003 compatibility). I believe that, after all, the competitions are intended to serve the communities by giving back to those who share and also as an incentive for people to actually spend the time to write new code. There was in fact new code written for Line Counter (as well as a healthy addition to the article) due to this competition, and this is why I submitted it for the competition.
There is criticism about the fact that Line Counter is not a new product and therefor I had the benefit of submitting code that has been in development for a while. I started wroting a long paragraph about the fact that this is a double sided coin (as others had the benefit of learning from my code where there was no such thing for me when I started), but that's not the point really. Maintaining something like Line Counter is hard work and I find it strange that anyone would think that my doing so should disqualify me 
Anonymous wrote:
Chris Maunder wrote:
I've added a late entry from an eager programmer who has been hassling me all morning to accept his (extremely late) entry.
He should comply with the term and conditions of the completion and accepted it.
This is a community site. We're not about bureaucracy here, nor are we about deadlines and strict rules. Chris isn't grading a term paper and I don't see anything wrong with someone sending in an entry late. I mean, if it's a VS.NET addin that is somewhat within the scope of the competition, why not? I personally hang out here to have fun and share with my peers. So let's put this all in perspective, shal we?
-Oz
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Well said Oz 
Good luck to all entrants no matter how early/late/etc there entry is 
Derek Lakin.
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Right on Oz. Good luck to all others as well, I sincerelly enjoyed all articles!
Let's rock 
Cheers,
Erick Sgarbi
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We enjoy all of codes submitted by competetors.
Good luck you all.
A. Riazi
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