Monthly contest: This Article Must Win
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Here's the deal, Marc Clifton has written an astoundingly good article which I believe epitomizes what CP is all about. His article is up for article of the month (web) and you can vote for it here : Survey Voting Form - Best Web Dev Article of April 2018[^] I Am Not Affiliated With Marc Clifton I assure you I am in no way affiliated with Marc Clifton but I know an award-winning article when I read it. Further, my article is in the running for that same contest, but Marc's article is far better and you can tell he put loads of work into it. Please take a few seconds and vote for his article. Here's a link directly to his article: Build a Prototype Web-Based Diagramming App with SVG and Javascript[^] Reason It's just that when you read an article this good which is so evident that an author put so much work into it, you got to give props. :thumbsup:
Speechless. Thanks raddevus, your post (and the comment you left in the article itself) made my day (my week actually!)
Latest Article - Building a Prototype Web-Based Diagramming Tool with SVG and Javascript Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Here's the deal, Marc Clifton has written an astoundingly good article which I believe epitomizes what CP is all about. His article is up for article of the month (web) and you can vote for it here : Survey Voting Form - Best Web Dev Article of April 2018[^] I Am Not Affiliated With Marc Clifton I assure you I am in no way affiliated with Marc Clifton but I know an award-winning article when I read it. Further, my article is in the running for that same contest, but Marc's article is far better and you can tell he put loads of work into it. Please take a few seconds and vote for his article. Here's a link directly to his article: Build a Prototype Web-Based Diagramming App with SVG and Javascript[^] Reason It's just that when you read an article this good which is so evident that an author put so much work into it, you got to give props. :thumbsup:
I tried, bad reputation.Must be my loose morals. :)
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Here's the deal, Marc Clifton has written an astoundingly good article which I believe epitomizes what CP is all about. His article is up for article of the month (web) and you can vote for it here : Survey Voting Form - Best Web Dev Article of April 2018[^] I Am Not Affiliated With Marc Clifton I assure you I am in no way affiliated with Marc Clifton but I know an award-winning article when I read it. Further, my article is in the running for that same contest, but Marc's article is far better and you can tell he put loads of work into it. Please take a few seconds and vote for his article. Here's a link directly to his article: Build a Prototype Web-Based Diagramming App with SVG and Javascript[^] Reason It's just that when you read an article this good which is so evident that an author put so much work into it, you got to give props. :thumbsup:
Marc always delivers the goods (along with Mr Barber). Their articles should be used as templates for how it is done.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
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I tried, bad reputation.Must be my loose morals. :)
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
theoldfool wrote:
I tried, bad reputation
Now, on a site like this, you had to know you'd get a response like this, right? https://i.stack.imgur.com/VAYOC.png^ :laugh:
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Speechless. Thanks raddevus, your post (and the comment you left in the article itself) made my day (my week actually!)
Latest Article - Building a Prototype Web-Based Diagramming Tool with SVG and Javascript Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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theoldfool wrote:
I tried, bad reputation
Now, on a site like this, you had to know you'd get a response like this, right? https://i.stack.imgur.com/VAYOC.png^ :laugh:
pull my finger! :)
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Here's the deal, Marc Clifton has written an astoundingly good article which I believe epitomizes what CP is all about. His article is up for article of the month (web) and you can vote for it here : Survey Voting Form - Best Web Dev Article of April 2018[^] I Am Not Affiliated With Marc Clifton I assure you I am in no way affiliated with Marc Clifton but I know an award-winning article when I read it. Further, my article is in the running for that same contest, but Marc's article is far better and you can tell he put loads of work into it. Please take a few seconds and vote for his article. Here's a link directly to his article: Build a Prototype Web-Based Diagramming App with SVG and Javascript[^] Reason It's just that when you read an article this good which is so evident that an author put so much work into it, you got to give props. :thumbsup:
I have absolutely no use for any of that code as this is very far removed from anything I do on a day-to-day basis. Yet this article indeed deserves all the 5-votes it can get, and it absolutely got mine. Articles that make you want to dive into and learn an unfamiliar topic the way this one does are few and far in-between.
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I have absolutely no use for any of that code as this is very far removed from anything I do on a day-to-day basis. Yet this article indeed deserves all the 5-votes it can get, and it absolutely got mine. Articles that make you want to dive into and learn an unfamiliar topic the way this one does are few and far in-between.
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It is extremely well-deserved. Your article _must_ win. It is fantastic and I am stunned by how much work absolutely had to go into that. :thumbsup:
raddevus wrote:
It is fantastic and I am stunned by how much work absolutely had to go into that.
A lot of it was research and googling how to do things. Once I got the basics handled, I started adding more pieces, but the implementation was really just a view-controller. At that point, I started writing the article because I didn't want to forget all the lessons I'd learned up to that. The irony was, I hadn't added connection points yet, figuring I could do that after writing about the basics. It was then that I realized the V-C pattern was not going to handle it, and I needed a true MVC model. Besides, I had kludges I wasn't happy with. Oi! So right in the middle of the article, I switch to a true MVC pattern and ended up refactoring almost all the code. Hence the section "Refactoring the Prototype to use an MVC Pattern." It was an interesting decision point. Do I rewrite the article at that point, starting with an MVC pattern, or do I let the prototype remain and explain the switch to MVC. I decided to let it remain as is and talk about refactoring it to an MVC pattern, figuring it would be educational and besides, I don't mind showing my dirty laundry, as it were. The reader gets to see more of the development process that way rather than just being presented with a finished product. So, thanks again for your amazing feedback!
Latest Article - Building a Prototype Web-Based Diagramming Tool with SVG and Javascript Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Here's the deal, Marc Clifton has written an astoundingly good article which I believe epitomizes what CP is all about. His article is up for article of the month (web) and you can vote for it here : Survey Voting Form - Best Web Dev Article of April 2018[^] I Am Not Affiliated With Marc Clifton I assure you I am in no way affiliated with Marc Clifton but I know an award-winning article when I read it. Further, my article is in the running for that same contest, but Marc's article is far better and you can tell he put loads of work into it. Please take a few seconds and vote for his article. Here's a link directly to his article: Build a Prototype Web-Based Diagramming App with SVG and Javascript[^] Reason It's just that when you read an article this good which is so evident that an author put so much work into it, you got to give props. :thumbsup:
Okay, voted, just hope you're not Russian (or I'm in trouble :)
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Okay, voted, just hope you're not Russian (or I'm in trouble :)
