Quality of the articles

Nish Nishant

Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

I need someone who can extend that for 100 columns.

:laugh:

Regards, Nish

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cmk

But why do you need 11, why not just make 10 bigger ?

...cmk Save the whales - collect the whole set

Clickok

:laugh::laugh::laugh: Poor Eric! :rose:

:sigh: Still searching for a good resource to LEARN English grammar ... :~
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Maximilien

I think it's just bad taste pointing someone like that in the Lounge. Just vote down the article and/or offer comments locally to the article; The article will put in the purgatory.

Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad

Marc Clifton

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

And I find it hard to believe that someone with that sort of profile can write this sort of code or article.

VB does that to you. Marc

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amclint

:laugh::laugh::laugh: Ugh, I laughed so much I'm kind of sick now X| Seriously though, we need a black hole category to put some of these articles in....:~

Aaron Clint Work

Rama Krishna Vavilala

That's why I hide all my certifications.

Ed Poore

Didn't to me :ducks: Ok, I admit it I started off on VB but havn't touched it since when I get the choice X|

Chris Maunder

You guys are brutal!

cheers, Chris Maunder

CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

Chris Maunder

You don't understand. This table...goes...to...11

cheers, Chris Maunder

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Christopher Duncan

:laugh: Beat me to it!

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Lost User

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

pretty much every other certification known to man.

Including certified midwife and crocodile wrestler?

The tigress is here :-D

Lost User

You joined in though :-D

The tigress is here :-D

Chris Meech

Chris Maunder wrote:

You guys are brutal!

Why do you say that? I haven't even begun to mention vb yet. :-D

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Colin Angus Mackay

Maximilien wrote:

The article will put in the purgatory

I was about to correct a little gramatical mistake you had in there, but then I realised one of the possible corrections would sound totally absurd. The article will get put in the purgatory "get" generally being used as the opposite of "put" it makes it sound very odd. e.g. "I get the apples off the shelf." Now reverse the action. "I put the apples on the shelf." Back to the original statement. You can also say: The article will be put in the purgatory

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Mark Salsbery

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

And I find it hard to believe that someone with that sort of profile can write this sort of code or article.

I don't see ASP.NET anywhere in the list.

RC_Sebastien_C

"I think it's just bad taste pointing someone like that" for little gramatical mistakes on an international forum :rolleyes: Seriously, I thought the "be" was simply missed when Maximilien typed, but I'm curious about that last line:

Colin Angus Mackay wrote:

The article will be put in the purgatory

Is removing the "the" a question of style or grammar? That sounded good to me (who speaks English as a second language).

Member 96

Funny because a lot of computer repair places use our software and they are consistently the most likely to *require* support whereas the plumbers and electrians and every other non computer related service company have comparitively few problems. But the real kicker is that some of the worst people to install and use software and follow even basic instructions are those that put those little letters after their name. It's become a red flag of sorts for our support department that we're going to have trouble. I too have a *very* dim view of certifications having been on both sides of the fence, I have all sorts of certifications but I know how to read a lot of info and pass a test fairly easily, I wrote most of my Novell CNE certification test in less than 10 minutes and they are supposed to take an hour or more. But the info I memorized had really little to do with the more important practical knowledge I gained on the job. I'd much rather hire a person with experience and no certifications or a person with interest and no experience or certifications than I would ever consider hiring a person with lot's of certifications and no experience.

Member 96

Yeah, I'm not impressed at all with their attitude, way too harsh, they should spend their energy giving some constructive criticism to the author, it's easy to sit on the sidelines and snipe at people.

Andy Brummer

Someone I knew in tech support took a great call. 6 MCSEs were trying to figure out this 8602 error on post and they just couldn't figure it out. So he told them to swap the keyboard and the mouse. Problem solved. ;)

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