Re: How to make downloadable source code available to website visitors?

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> Pwnd :)
>
> Hopefully he learns his lesson.

I learn every day, especially from my enemies. If a doctor doesn't take the
medicine he prescribes, how good is he?

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
Sometimes you eat the elephant.
Sometimes the elephant eats you.

"Lee" <noSpam_easyTree77@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Pwnd :)
>
> Hopefully he learns his lesson.
>
>
>
> "Swaregirl" <swaregirl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> news:QTcle.1238$4N2.472@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
>> Kevin,
>>
>> You have a lot of nerve to be so condescending. Before you write
>> little snide code snippets, you need to clean up around your own front
>> door. Or better yet, clean up your own books and code. Especially
>> when anyone can go to Amazon.com and see the reviews of your books.
>>
>> Especially after you helped write one book with that squeaked out a 3
>> star rating after you bolstered it with your own 5 star rating.
>> Especially when you helped to write another that bombed outright.
>> Especially when and you are the only common denominator between the
>> two.
>>
>> Especially when the complaints were that the code for BOTH books was
>> riddled with errors. One review said that 80% of the code was
>> incorrect in the Beginning SQL Programming book was incorrect.
>>
>>
>> Beginning SQL Programming (Programmer to Programmer)
>> by John Kauffman, Brian Matsik, Kevin Spencer, Ian Herbert, Sakhr
>> Youness, Julian Skinner
>>
>>
>> 3 Star rating based on 11 reviews - pumped up with your own glowing
>> "review" of your work.
>>
>> "Overpriced for meager information", July 27, 2001
>>
>> "Rubbish", November 22, 2002
>>
>> "Absolutely Appalling!!!", October 18, 2002
>> Reviewer: MR M J O'Sullivan "gameshaven" (London) - See all my
>> reviews
>> "This has got to be the worst book on any computing subject ever
>> published. The try it out sections and code snippets throughout the
>> book are about 80% incorrect, honestly the level of errors and poor
>> coding is disgraceful. Wrox books are normally of a very high quality
>> but this one is absolutely terrible, I can't emphasised that enough. I
>> begun this book with high enthusiasm for this subject but now my
>> enthusiasm has totally diminished. Apart from the appalling level of
>> errors there is also a high level or repetition, which can only be
>> down to poor communication among its authors. Then in other areas
>> you'll find exceptional weak explanations or explanations lacking
>> altogether."
>>
>> "Typos, inconsistent examples, sidetracked, advocate for Micr," August
>> 16, 2001
>>
>> Here you are, Kevin, gushing your opinion of your book and trying like
>> hell to get that perfect 5 star rating:
>>
>> Beginning to End SQL Programming, April 11, 2001
>> Reviewer: Kevin Spencer (Pell City, AL USA) - See all my reviews
>> I am one of the authors of this book, so of course my rating is going
>> to be a little prejudiced. However, I must say that I'm very proud of
>> this work, and after reading the complete work, I thought it should be
>> called "Beginning to End SQL Programming." There isn't a single aspect
>> of SQL that is not covered in this book. While it is designed to cover
>> using SQL from the beginning, and written in a style that is easy for
>> novices to understand, it covers more about the actual use of SQL than
>> any other SQL book that I've seen. I actually use it as a reference
>> myself!
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1861001800/qid=1117079903
>> /sr=1 -2/ref=sr_1_2/102-9867468-7270568?v=glance&s=books
>>
>> -----------------------------------
>>
>>
>> Beginning Mac Programming
>> by Jeff Thompson, Kevin Spencer
>>
>>
>> 1 Star rating - 1 reviewer. Come on Kevin, why didn't you give
>> yourself a 5 star rating on this one. Too embarrassed?
>> Comment:
>> "poor tutorial, but good overview of cocoa and carbon", February 24,
>> 2002 "...Magic code appears in the project without ever being
>> introduced in the tutorial. There are multiple errors in the tutorial
>> as well. I guess it is good practice to be able to debug on your own."
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1931841004/qid=1117079903
>> /sr=1 -3/ref=sr_1_3/102-9867468-7270568?v=glance&s=books
>>
>> ---------------------
>> All of this and you have the nerve to bleat about on about the
>> grammatical and spelling errors that posters make and how so many
>> programmers are dumb and lazy.
>>
>> You are a genius in your own mind only. No true genius would be
>> satisfied with mediocrity.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Kevin Spencer" <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:#7rBHJRYFHA.3320@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Here's a Freebie:
>>>
>>> ' Conditional, depends on Knowledge
>>> If (IsNothing(Me.Knowledge))
>>> Me.ShareKnowledge = False
>>> Else
>>> Me.ShareKnowledge = True
>>> End If
>>>
>>> ' Non-Conditional
>>> Me.NeedCode = False
>>> Me.Educate()
>>>
>>> --
>>> HTH,
>>>
>>> Kevin Spencer
>>> Microsoft MVP
>>> .Net Developer
>>> Sometimes you eat the elephant.
>>> Sometimes the elephant eats you.
>>>
>>>
>>> "Swaregirl" <swaregirl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:dLWke.2361$TJ2.1967@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > I would like to build a website using ASP.NET. I would like
>>> > website visitors to be able to download code that I would like to
>>> > make available to
>>> > them and that would be residing on my personal server.
>>> >
>>> > Are there any code samples or books that someone can recommend so
>>> > that I can
>>> > implement this. I would prefer VB.NET code, but I am willing to
>>> > convert from C# if necessary.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>


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