Hans, thank you. you're right. Vin

Dear friends of CodeProject staff, I have a question about article competition and about prize assignments. In march I published the DataGridView Filter Popup[^] article which received good responses from other CodeProject users. The latest newsletter announces the winners of march. I agree with the choice of the Perceptor: An artificially intelligent guided navigation system for WPF[^] article as best overall article, but I don't agree with the choice of the Multi Remote Desktop Client .NET[^] as the best c# article. Of course I always appreciate who share something with others but I think that the proposed code is substantially a wapper around a preexisting activex control and that the article content is very laconic. I am quite disappointed and I would know which are the rules applied in designating the "best" article. I just realized that the rating and popularity indicators don't matter. Nor it doesn't matter if the article proposes an original solution and if it contains a comprehensive explanation. I share my code because I like to think I've done something useful to others and to learn from others. I think everyone is encouraged to do more and better when he or she receives positive feedbacks. The others appreciations is fundamental and a prize is a kind of formal appreciation about the done work. Considering that every competition provides its rules, I don't understand why you don't make public your rules. Morever, I don't understand why you don't write the reasons that brought to award an article. Thank you very much V.R.

Hans, thank you for your answer. I share my code because I like to think I've done something useful to others and to learn from others. Which is the measure of the usefulness? Feedbacks like comments, votes and, why not, prizes. I think everyone is encouraged to do more and better when he or she receives positive feedbacks. The others appreciations is fundamental and a prize is a kind of formal appreciation about the done work. That said, I'm surprised to read that a serious site like CodeProject adopt superficial and meaningless beauty pageants. Why? Which is the purpose? I would like one of this three things will be done: - Competition will be removed at all - Competition will become serious, with public rules and prize reasons. - Competition will be explicitelly declared as a facetious roulette game. I will follow your suggestion, posting my doubts in the Site Bugs / Suggestions forum. thank you again Vin

Dear friends of CodeProject staff, I have a question about article competition and about prize assignments. In march I published the DataGridView filter popup[^] article which received good responses from other CodeProject users. The latest newsletter announces the winners of march. I agree with the choice of the Perceptor[^] article as best overall article, but I don't agree with the choice of the Multi Remote Desktop Client .NET[^] as the best c# article. Of course I always appreciate who share something with others but I think that the proposed code is substantially a wapper around a preexisting activex control and that the article content is very laconic. I am quite disappointed and I would know which are the rules applied in designing the "best" article. I just realized that the rating and popularity indicators don't matter. Nor it doesn't matter if the article proposes an original solution and if it contains a comprehensive explanation. Considering that every competition provides its rules, I don't understand why you don't make public your rules. Morever, I don't understand why you don't write the reasons that brought to award an article. Thank you very much V.R.

I could surrender, but often human beings are stupid and proud. So I must reply... Hmmm, ok.. 1. this expression cannot be used as callback funcion 2. If you use that expression in many place of your code, instead of using a central function, you have to change the literal 16 in all places. Use a costant at least. 3. Why not waste some stack space? ahah ;-) Greetings Vin

I've processed that code with WinZip. The result is:

bool foo(int n) { return (n > 16); }

modified on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 4:34 PM