Each month I try to post a personal review of what happened at vbCity during the previous month and this month is no exception :)
Helper Of The Month (HOTM)
Congratulations to David Jeavons aka djjeavons for winning the June 2005 HOTM. David won fairly easily this month as his nearest rival for the HOTM title had around 1000 points less then David.
.NET Fella
Congratulations to Vikram Warrier aka vikramjb for winning the June 2005 .NET Fella Award. Vikram has been there or thereabouts for the award for a few months now and it was great to see him finally get it.
Newsletters
Just one devCity Newsletters was sent out in June, on May 25th (It went out a little late on June 1st). We are always on the lookout for people to write articles for our newsletter so if you would like to get involved please contact Ged Mead, aka xTab
vbCity sends out a community newsletter email once a month, usually around the last week. All registered vbCity members can choose to receive it by going to their profile, selecting preferences and then ticking the Yes, send me monthly Community Update mailing checkbox. You might notice some items from this post appear in the newsletter!
Site News
The leaders continued with their updating of members from Hyperactive to Guru status. We are working along the lines of nominating Hyperactive members who catch our eye with the quality of their technical posts. All the leaders then have a chance to vote whether the member gets upgraded to Guru status. We anticipate this will be done each month, although there is no requirement for the number (or indeed any) of members that get upgraded each month. Our thanks go to Chris for creating the web site we have been using to perform this process. The hyperactive members who were awarded guru status are list as June2005 gurus!
A new feature has been added to the advanced search at vbCity. You can now search for words contained in attachments too.
Another new feature is the adding of a reply number to each reply in a thread. It appears to the left of the subject line and is marked #1, #2 etc. Clicking on these links places a URL in your browser address box that can be used to directly link to an individual reply.
Leader News
Each month our resident genealogist, Wonkotsane digs up some fascinating and little known facts about our new leaders and this month it was the turn of djjeavons, aka the Marquess Of Walthamshire.
We have missed Gilles this month as he has been spending time looking for a new house. We hope he finds the perfect home soon and gets back to vbCity :)
Congratulations are due to Breakfast3001 who passed his exams with flying colours and also to betrl8thanever who has taken up a new job :)
Other News
One of most popular posts in the vbcity Lounge Forum was It's a Girl. Good luck to johnminkjan and his wife and I hope the adoption goes through quickly.
At the end of May there were around 431,000 posts and 145,750 members at vbCity