The votes are in!
And below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, June 2013 !!!!
The TechNet Guru Awards celebrate the technical articles on TechNet, contributed from valued wiki authors like YOU!
Each month, the contributions are scored by a panel of judges, and the winners of each category are showered with love and attention from all corners of TechNet.
See the links at the bottom, to find out more about the competition and how to enter.
We have picked the top three highest scored contributions for each category to bestow our awards upon.
The awards are in gold, silver and bronze, the gold obviously being the top winner of the category.
The last column is a few of the comments judges made during the judging process.
My fellow wiki ninjas will be digging deeper into some of these articles in this blog series, so watch out for those.
A big thank you also to the other authors who did not make the top three of each category.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
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BizTalk Technical Guru - June 2013 |
Ed: "Thanks to Ron, Abhijit, and Mohit! We had a great collection of articles for our first month for the BizTalk Technical Guru competition! And congrats to Ron! We'll feature your article in a variety of ways! The four BizTalk contributions are here."
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SharePoint 2010 Technical Guru - June 2013 |
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Matthew Yarlett |
Uploading (and Resizing) Images to a SharePoint Picture Library via a Webpart |
Margriet Bruggeman: "Handy to have this code!"
Peter Laker: "Nice article. Who's the mugshot of?"
Ed Price: "It's very clear! It's great how you take us through this, with the code and image for clarity."
Tom Van Gaever: "Please do not set AllowUnsafeUpdate to true http://hristopavlov.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/what-you-need-to-know-about-allowunsafeupdates/" |
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Sunny Dasgupta |
SEO Friendly SharePoint Sites/Pages |
Margriet Bruggeman: "Good to know!"
TVG: "SharePoint 2013 PG has invested a lot in making SharePoint a better WCM solution. I would create a series that lists all the improvements for public facing websites (image rendition, device channels,...)"
Peter Laker: "Top tip"
Ed Price: "Short and sweet! Good use of images! Sunny, I think you ended up with two of the top three because you write well on very important topics!" |
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Sunny Dasgupta |
New! SharePoint 2013: Branding Solutions as an App! Showcase your solutions now! |
TVG: "I like the showcase idea"
Ed Price: "This is an important business lesson! It would be great to follow this up with technical "how to" examples, with all the details. As I mentioned, you have a good business mind to know what people want to learn about!" |
Ed: "Peter, the mugshot is of Matthew! I've got to admit it... SharePoint was truly an amazing category. First, there were 20 contributions. 20! Can you believe it??? Second, it was an incredibly tough call for our judges. There were so many great contributions, and they are so different. Personally, I thought Gokan delivered some fantastic articles, and I was a little sad to see that his didn't make these top three! (But the three winners were also excellent; therein lies the problem... so much excellence!) I love how Gokan formats the articles and devotes little sections to explaining concepts (using bold and bullets to help make them pop). To everyone: Please leave a comment if you'd like any suggestions on how to improve your articles! I think we'll leave those suggestions on your article comments, if you want them. And to Sunny, as I mentioned, I think you ended up with two of the top three, even though they were short, because you write very well and you have a fantastic business mind to know what people want to learn about! And congrats to Matthew, who maintains the gold medal two months in a row (but it was a close call)! Overall, I just want to say thank you to all the contributors (Sunny, Matthew, Usama, Stefan, Ashish, Gokan, Libin, Mohammad, Suresh, and Joydeep)! It really makes us want to be able to reward you all, because there was so much quality!!! Check out all 20 contributions here."
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Small Basic Technical Guru - June 2013 |
Ed: "I have a soft place in my heart for Small Basic, an investment for Microsoft to give to the community and to make programming so fun, social, and simple that 8 year olds love to learn it. I'm glad to see the new Small Basic category for June and that Jibba Jabba jumped in and gave Nonki a run for it! Thanks to both Nonki (with 6 great submissions) and to Jibba Jabba for their contributions! See all of Nonki's contributions here."
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SQL Server Analysis Services Technical Guru - June 2013 |
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Yogish Bhat |
Aggregations in SSAS |
Peter Laker: "Excellent subject. Excellent detail. Nice formatting."
Ed Price: "Great explanations, clearly written, and good job breaking up the sections so that it's easy to read and to use the TOC."
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Yogish Bhat |
MOD Function in MDX |
Peter Laker: "Useful tip. Thanks!"
Ed Price: "Great solution!" |
Ed: "Thanks Yogish for jumping in there and representing Analysis Services!"
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SQL Server Reporting Services/Power View Technical Guru - June 2013 |
Ed: "And thank you to Tim for 6 great articles about Reporting Services! Find all 6 here."
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Transact-SQL Technical Guru - June 2013 |
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Naomi N |
How SQL Server Determines Type of the Constant |
Richard Mueller: "A good recommendation to explicitly CAST values, with an example of possible consequences if you don't." |
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Naomi N |
SET ANSI_PADDING Setting and Its Importance |
Samuel Lester: "Outstanding contribution! I love the process of walking us through the debugging you performed. People who read this article gain an understanding of not only the SET ANSI_PADDING setting, but also how you arrived at discovering this as well as the technical resources available to ask in the MSDN forums. Very, very good!"
Ed Price: "Very in depth article with great code formatting!"
Richard Mueller: "This explains an issue I was not aware of. Well researched. Good to include a script to correct the situation." |
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Johnny Bell Jnr |
SQL Server Result Set In An HTML Email |
Richard Mueller: "Very instructive. I like this because similar techniques can be used for other applications."
Samuel Lester: "Great article and very handy for sure. I'm a big fan of code generation through T-SQL as you're doing with the @HTML parameter. I use similar tricks often to generate code for other programming languages. Very good!"
Ed Price: "The text does a great job setting up the code blocks!" |
Ed: "Transact SQL was our second largest category with 9 submissions (4 from Naomi)! Naomi holds onto her title for a second month. Thanks go out to all our contributors... Kalman, Naomi, Sathyanarrayanan, and Johnny Bell! You made it tough on the judges to select from an excellent group! Please go check them all out here."
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Visual Basic Technical Guru - June 2013 |
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Reed Kimble |
How to Communicate with a Microcontroller or Other Serial Device in VB.Net |
Richard Mueller: "A well written article with great information and a detailed code example. The explanation should allow someone to adapt this for many applications."
MR: "Well written and very descriptive."
Anthony D. Green: "This article has the most interesting topic but I wish it had a more concrete example like making a robot dance or something. Serial port communication is a common forum question as the writer points out - I'd be great if the user had something in the sample to run against/debug. Another suggestion I'd make is that the author break up the very long code sample into discrete steps with the paragraph describing the code following the code immediately. Right now a reader is confronted with a wall of text and has to try to grok it all at once before proceeding to the prose or scan back and forth to get it."
SB: "I like the article - I've seen many issues in the past with serial communication and its always a bit of a vague topic so any article is a positive in my opinion. It would be nice to link this to Micro-framework which added VB support and is another way of working with microcontrollers. Article is well written with good clean examples."
Ed Price: "Incredibly in depth with beautifully formatted code!" |
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Paul Ishak |
Bitmap.Lockbits De-Mystified .Net |
Richard Mueller: "This was a difficult decision to rate these Wikis. This is a well researched article with good explanation of the steps required."
Mark Rideout: "Great details, though formatting makes it hard to read."
Anthony D. Green: "This was well written and well factored for reading. My only complaints are the lack of syntax colorization and the noisy line numbers. The topic is just obscure enough that it would have helped a lot to have a paragraph or two at the beginning to tell me what Lock bits is and why it's interesting rather than just jump into a deep dive. It links to another article which gives the motivation but it would have been great to have that inline."
SB: "Rather than an article I felt this was more a series of code snippets. Although very useful I prefer a narrative explaining things. I think that the content is OK but it alludes to the fact of performance improvements but would like maybe a bit more info as to how much more performance improvements can be made using this."
Ed Price: "I love how the article has its own banner image! Good code samples. Great job!" |
Ed: "Reed and Paul grab the medals for a second month in a row! Great job, guys!"
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Visual C# Technical Guru - June 2013 |
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Dan Randolph |
Named Pipes IO for Inter-process Communication |
CW: "Well, rating this time around is pretty straightforward, what with there being one article. The only real dig I have against the article is that it brings up a GUI for this and I never see it. I know it isn't remarkable, but when you mention a GUI, I sort of expect to see it. Otherwise, this article provides a simple sample of using named pipes in c# code between two components."
Christian Lukito: "Good proof of concept showing how to use the API. But it will be more better if can provide real worlds example in what way this is more useful."
Ed Price: "Very clear and easy to read! Great code snippets with good formatting!" |
Peter Laker: "Only entry! Win!"
Ed: "We've got new blood for the Visual C# category! Let's see if the contributors from May want to take on Dan in July (the contributions are already starting to come in)."
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Windows Phone Technical Guru - June 2013 |
Ed: "Isenthil grabs a medal for the second month in a row! Congrats to both winners!"
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Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - June 2013 |
Ed: "Sachin (our May winner for VC#) is in his element here with the new Windows Store Apps category! Three entries and three medals! The competition is already growing for July!"
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WPF Technical Guru - June 2013 |
Ed: "Oh, hey. I do want to mention that just because Peter and I are the only commenters on a few of these, that doesn't mean we're the only judges. We just like to express ourselves, I guess. For our final category, we had a few people come out to compete! Thanks to Guarav, XAML guy, and Magnus! You can find all 5 of their contributions here."
A great big thanks to EVERYONE who contributed an article to last month's competition.
Hopefully we will see you ALL again in this month's listings?
If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can produce a more useful, clever and better produced wiki article than the winners above, here's your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
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