What to make of the vast void of silence
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Drew Stainton wrote:
Sexier topics that include VCF and MVC as secondary features are going to get a lot more bites.
It's going to be tricky writing a WPF article that doesn't use WPF.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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I recently submitted several new articles and what has surprised me a little is how little response I got. Well actually, pretty much none whatsoever would be more correct. I would have thought that some of the ideas being presented would have interested at least some of the people here, but apparently not. Am I missing something? Does no one have any interest in anything outside of the latest and greatest that comes out of Redmond? People bitch and moan all the time at what Microsoft puts out, but when someone else comes along with an alternative, it's met with silence. I think this is a bit sad, because it means that we are locked into not *only* the development languages that Microsoft chooses to offer, but that even the design of software is now completely driven by them, alternate approaches be damned :( Doubly depressing of course is that despite a fair number of views, the uni-votes shoots the article rating to hell because so few people vote. What was going to be a series of articles now has me asking myself why I'm even bothering. Deduct man-points as you see fit.
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Jim Crafton wrote:
why I'm even bothering.
Heh, I've lost count of how many times I've asked myself that, what with univoters and unappreciative comments. In the end, I always come back to the same thing: I'm doing it to repay CP for what I've gotten here, but I'm also doing it for myself. Writing articles has been reward in itself, because of what I learn in writing them, and what I learn in other, less direct ways. I hope you will reconsider.
Best wishes, Hans
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I recently submitted several new articles and what has surprised me a little is how little response I got. Well actually, pretty much none whatsoever would be more correct. I would have thought that some of the ideas being presented would have interested at least some of the people here, but apparently not. Am I missing something? Does no one have any interest in anything outside of the latest and greatest that comes out of Redmond? People bitch and moan all the time at what Microsoft puts out, but when someone else comes along with an alternative, it's met with silence. I think this is a bit sad, because it means that we are locked into not *only* the development languages that Microsoft chooses to offer, but that even the design of software is now completely driven by them, alternate approaches be damned :( Doubly depressing of course is that despite a fair number of views, the uni-votes shoots the article rating to hell because so few people vote. What was going to be a series of articles now has me asking myself why I'm even bothering. Deduct man-points as you see fit.
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog
If you're writing articles for praise and reviews, you're doing it for the wrong reason. You should write articles because you like to write and enjoy knowing that you're helping someone. If you get a comment - great - but don't expect a pat on the back. While the internet is great for getting immediate feedback, the feedback is often negative, irrelevant, or completely absent (despite lots of page views). Ratings are similar - some readers don't understand your article for whatever reason and give it a low rating - others just don't rate or make it a point to rate low. Keep writing and build your online persona/voice. It's cool to see other people citing your work (after it has been around for a while) or hitting your article from Google when you're actually looking for something else. If you plan to write a book, the articles you publish here are good material for publishers to assess your style and, often more importantly, you perseverance. Writing, like life, is what you make of it - enjoy it just because you can do it :)
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I recently submitted several new articles and what has surprised me a little is how little response I got. Well actually, pretty much none whatsoever would be more correct. I would have thought that some of the ideas being presented would have interested at least some of the people here, but apparently not. Am I missing something? Does no one have any interest in anything outside of the latest and greatest that comes out of Redmond? People bitch and moan all the time at what Microsoft puts out, but when someone else comes along with an alternative, it's met with silence. I think this is a bit sad, because it means that we are locked into not *only* the development languages that Microsoft chooses to offer, but that even the design of software is now completely driven by them, alternate approaches be damned :( Doubly depressing of course is that despite a fair number of views, the uni-votes shoots the article rating to hell because so few people vote. What was going to be a series of articles now has me asking myself why I'm even bothering. Deduct man-points as you see fit.
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog
Really though, no one except you uses VCF here. If your articles, say were about MFC, a lot more people would like it because MFC is dominant here.
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