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Winner of Veign's Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Announced
Wordzilla:
I'm just glad you aren't stuck with Borland junk anymore now, mouser :)
-f0dder (December 08, 2006, 03:19 PM)
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mouser:
ps2. It might help to put things in perspective if you knew that I have been working my a** off recently to get us donated prizes for the game programming contest (vrgirl too!). It is not fun work, in fact it is downright exhausting. The C++ Builder contest was far more work than I expected, and frankly these contests may really be just more trouble than they are worth for a small site like ours. And I don't get any of those prizes - I don't get anything but the satisfaction of having good stuff for people to win, and the satisfaction of knowing that the site improves and becomes a better place that more people will like and that people who are already here will like more (i hope).
I wouldn't dream of entering any contest or giveaway we have on the site; never have, never will. If I had awarded the contest prize to myself I would expect everyone here to be furious, and rightly so. Hope it's clear now that that's not what happened.
Veign:
Given what mouser has said, there really is no need for my response as its just saying what has already been said.
One point about my choosing the winner. I had never known it was Tinjaw who I had selected until mouser pointed it out to me. I was focusing on the entrants and addressing them by email only. So, the fact that a DC member was selected was just a coincidence. Should add this too. In my top 5 were people who had only wrote a line or two of text. So it wasn't the length that mattered but what it conveyed.
I also want to say one thing. I have spent my programming life putting the 'community' before my needs. I have dedicated countless hours to newsgroups, developing software, asssisting other developers, and just trying to make other people better without worrying about what I get in return. This was just another way to give back without worrying about lining my own pockets.
I hope people understand that mouser and myself did this with good intentions.
(mouser / DC and me / Veign are not working together in anyway. I only know of him through these forums)
CodeTRUCKER:
ps2. It might help to put things in perspective if you knew that I have been working my a** off recently to get us donated prizes for the game programming contest (vrgirl too!). It is not fun work, in fact it is downright exhausting. The C++ Builder contest was far more work than I expected, and frankly these contests may really be just more trouble than they are worth for a small site like ours. And I don't get any of those prizes - I don't get anything but the satisfaction of having good stuff for people to win, and the satisfaction of knowing that the site improves and becomes a better place that more people will like and that people who are already here will like more (i hope).
I wouldn't dream of entering any contest or giveaway we have on the site; never have, never will. If I had awarded the contest prize to myself I would expect everyone here to be furious, and rightly so. Hope it's clear now that that's not what happened.
-mouser (December 08, 2006, 03:27 PM)
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I appreciate the additional input.
CodeTRUCKER:
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I also want to say one thing. I have spent my programming life putting the 'community' before my needs. I have dedicated countless hours to newsgroups, developing software, asssisting other developers, and just trying to make other people better without worrying about what I get in return. This was just another way to give back without worrying about lining my own pockets.
I hope people understand that mouser and myself did this with good intentions.
(mouser / DC and me / Veign are not working together in anyway. I only know of him through these forums)
-Veign (December 08, 2006, 03:29 PM)
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I do have to admit that the effort that is being put into clarifying this situation is very helpful.
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