Office extensibility team has quite a lot of work to do before Excel MVP's can do in TypeScript everything they do everyday in VBA
the VBE hasn't been updated since 1998, and likely won't see another update ever again
yet, billions of lines of VBA code execute every day in business-critical code worldwide
the VBA folks have basically no tooling
nothing free anyway. until Rubberduck came along. slowly, we're eating every other add-in's lunch. (except vbWatchdog, that one's impossible... but its author is a Rubberduck contributor now, so..)
> Over the past twelve months, 32 developers contributed new code to Rubberduck VBA. This is one of the largest open-source teams in the world, and is in the top 2% of all project teams on Open Hub.
Here on Meta GD, there are both tags and tagging. On both MSE and MSO (and probably others as well, but I didn't check), tagging is a synonym of tags, so that should probably be applied here as well, right?
yeah. I'm considering reinstating the "swirling code" as a light shade of gray... and then swapping the shadow ducky for the actual yellow SVG, for color
@MathieuGuindon I think the shadow of the duck is a bit weird too symbolically. It offers good contrast with the type so that works but it sort of suggests an absence of a duck
and I have to admit I had to laugh out loud at ""RUBBERDUCK" lettering in a signature Showcard Gothic font... I'm not mentally prepared to let go of." I've found that endearing lol
I.. yeah.. I don't want to spend too much $$.. nobody gets paid to work on this, and some contributors have spent hundreds of hours already - wouldn't be fair IMO. OTOH, "Crafted the complete branding of the 'Rubberduck' OSS project" can't look bad in a portfolio, no?
I think for a student the experience is worth more than whatever ends up going on their resume but so many people use that argument to try an leverage some free time out of juniors that it's a running gag at this point :-)
then again I know many of my students do it regardless and I've done it in the past if a project was dear to me
well, I supervised one of the core contributors' actual internship with this project, and it got 2 devs to learn C# and actually land a real-world programming job already
but I totally get how people don't count their hours working on that open source stuff, my own bf is in open source so I've been getting a taste of how it works for years lol
yea the thing is it's relevant for them to work with you if you teach them coding but for a graphic designer they would be on their own, it could hardly be qualified as an internship
they do search engines, just hired a few folks but oh boy it's tough to find people in this field
Web devs if you're looking for them, you can find a bunch in Les Mordus du Web on Facebook
we were just looking for a web design teacher and that was one of the places I've looked. I also needed a designer though and found mainly developers so that didn't work for us
I used to do a lot of front-end but then I had my first kid and realized how difficult it is to debug anything when you can get interrupted at any moment!
then I just started outsourcing and now barely consulting anymore, teaching is taking up all my time
I think I'd be happy to have twins because we sort of wanted three. I figure get it out of the way and just be in damage control mode for a few years lol
I think parenting is a great fix to perfectionnism :-P
since you're local, we give a branding class in the fall and our students need to find their own client
they work with the client and develop the branding, multiple proposals with some applications but we ask that the student have good leverage to create what they think works best
just yesterday I had a regular user/issue-contributor realize that there's an awesome "indent" linkbutton on the code explorer toolwindow... IIRC the feature shipped well over a year ago
Why have I favored monosyllables for game terms, skills, attributes, etc over the years?
They’re friendlier for layout.
A monosyllable is typically short, meaning it’s less likely to deform justified text or become decoupled from dice or modifier indicators due to wrapping.
Here on Meta GD, there are both tags and tagging. On both MSE and MSO (and probably others as well, but I didn't check), tagging is a synonym of tags, so that should probably be applied here as well, right?
