Too bad for all others who meet her down the street.

OMG, I've been away from 'lounging' for a while and totally forgot about that. These trials are like soap operas. They go on for ages and if you go to serve in the army, when you get back you only need one episode to be right back on track.

I won't send him the project. If he wants the degree than he should be able to proove he deserves it. I'd ask him what problems he faces, and give him some links to articles (if you really want to help him). Because that would indeed be help. He won't learn anything if you give him the project. And would end up in this situation again, and try to cheat his way thorough just because it worked before. That won't help him. Also, how do you know that his email was for real, and not just pretending, so he could have more time for fun and not do any work?

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Do you also correct people telling jokes because they do not correspond to reality?

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You completely missed the point.

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Neh. Being in the EU, the spiders were complaining about discrimination, so they were offered a free market too. Romanians and Bulgarians are still waiting for it though.

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I don't get it. All the fuss around Vista is about eye candy and that's true. I does look flashy glowy and poppy, but there are some nice interfaces. I don't see the contradiction. ...of course it a matter of taste, but still

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Failed for the second time while downloading.

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Michael Sync wrote:

site run by "B" has the same stats like my site.

It really depends on the category of audience your getting and not so much on the number. Having just a technical blog will target audience from technical fields. Having all sorts of info on your blog as you mentioned will gather all sort of people and there's a higher probability that ads are not targeted towards that audience.

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Yes. I get this too now. First time I tried it failed at some point. Now it's stuck on downloading. Their servers must be under demand.

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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

I might have missed that as I scanned through the article quickly. I did not see the author making a statement that Poker can make you a better software developer. I have never seen a software developer good at Poker yet, so I would have disagreed outright:)

I didn't finish reading the article. It just annoyed me. But then again I'm trying to quit smoking and I'm very easily annoyed during this period, so who knows. Alright, out for some running time. I have those bad thoughts you know...

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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

1. Reading books, blogs, and magazines to be essential for programming

Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

2. Expert developers have a different skill set than average developers.

Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

3. Almost no one is as good as they think they are.

Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

4.Working with Incomplete Information

Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

5. Almost no solution is simply a good thing, instead it's a good thing given the right situation.

This is a typical case of "cold reading". The points are generally true and can be applied to almost any other profession. Try it with doctor, chemist, psychologist, or whatever other profession that comes to mind, that involves a certain degree of thought in the process. So the actual "software developer" profession in the article is redundant. He might as well have chosen something else, and I think the point should have been made how poker might teach you something useful when applying the knowledge, not that it will make you a better software developer which I think it's a crap statement.

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I have to disagree. I remember when active on the ASP.NET forum that there were indeed stupid questions, but their number was not that high. I remember occasionally being amazed at the incompetence of some users, but quickly moved on the the serious posters. This happend, but there were far more valuable questions than abuses. Nowadays there are valuable questions as well, but it's difficult to find them. You have to search through the bunch of crap and go several pages deep. And this is only one part of the problem. I also get annoyed because of the stupid questions and the behavior of people so I get out of there.

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Chris Maunder wrote:

I'm tempted by the idea of allow community banishing of those members who abuse the site.

I think that's a good idea. Probably along the lines of warning the user a couple of times that his behavior was reported as inappropriate and if he continues he's account will be deleted. There probably needs to be a prescription period as well, so that let's say after few years his account isn't "accidentally" deleted for deeds gathered through this period.

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I haven't met Ann yet. I guess she's new here.

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As much as that was funny, that is sad. That guy didn't even know what was in front of him. Hell ... didn't even hear the name of the programming language. :doh: Mark's reply was really funny.

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leckey wrote:

links of their behavior. It would not be for flaming,

They will inevitably get flamed by someone. I for one am not into that pointing fingers thing. We should ideally end up educating them, but that's not an easy thing. Most important we should find some way of cleaning up the forums of the inappropriate questions which just hide the serious questions into a sea of incompetence and unprofessionalism.

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You are right. Besides the poor quality of questions, unfortunately there's not much respect going on neither. I realize this is a sensitive issue and the solutions to tackle these problems are not easy. But we should work on this to find a solution. Appealing to common sense doesn't seem to have an effect.

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:rant: It's been a while since I've been active on the programming forums mainly because I've been very busy these last months, but I was having one of those "bored" moments and I decided to have a look. I've heard a lot of talk about the poor quality of forums lately but I must say I was really surprised at how bad it is. It has seriously degraded since the last times I visited them. Especially the ASP.NET forum. I also know there was a lot of talk on numerous occasions as well about redesigning the forums and John Simmons has iterated this as long as I can remember, but I really think we need to find some solution for this problem because it is sad what's going on. And it's just bringing down the community. Probably some system where valuable users of the community can somehow mark these messages so that they're moved a couple of pages away or move them to a beginner's sister forum of the main forum. I know there is a high level of work going on into improving the website by trying to solve all sort of problems like article moderation, etc, but I think this is also something that needs to be looked into, because it's just sad what's going on. [EDIT] My suggestion is having a sister forum for each programming forum (or at least for the ones that are having troubles). A beginner's forum, where valuable users of the community can move those questions that are ultimately the straightforward "google it" or just so simple that they don't even deserve mention on a serious programming forum. [/EDIT]

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As AlexeiXX3 mentioned, dynamically generated controls are not recreated after the page postbacks. The thing is that the postback resets the page to it's original state, so any information regarding the dynamically created controls is lost. Why is that? Because the Page class is stateless. The Page recreates child controls based on the tags in the aspx files, so your controls not being present there are not shown. What you need to do is recreate the controls in the OnInit event or any event that fires before PageLoad, or in PageLoad if you do a check to see is the page is posted back. See this article[^] as an example. The thing to keep in mind is that when recreating the controls to assign them the same ID they previously had. This way you will retain the state of the controls. That's because when you postback a page the values of the controls are saved in the viewstate, but when state is restored to the controls, it actually looks for the controls with the coresponding ID's on the page. If it can find them it will restore them. So you don't have to worry about state as long as you recreate your controls correctly.

Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy