BoonEx All Stars
I am in a rather unique position here. How so? My skills do NOT include coding or great amounts of technical experience with our software. That is a confession of sorts, and I admit that I could not write one piece of code if my very life depended on it. Therefore, I need to focus on making contacts with people who CAN do these and other things, and I have garnered a good bit of knowledge regarding who is able to perform needed services, who has truly good hosting, where to find that great template or detailed help for coding corrections and so on.
Years of mails with customers and service providers has resulted in good insight on where and whom to go to for what customers need, and conversely - where NOT to look. Perhaps one of the most overlooked sources is what we call "Our Community." Yeah, we say it, but give it little thought when doing so.
Take a look at the blogs and forums, and note the people who regularly contribute there. Forget the occasional arguing and pettiness, and focus on the real resources who regularly provide help by scolding, pushing, guiding, offering alternatives and general good and helpful assistance to newcomers who are truly still much better than I at this business. These are the ones who test our software and painstakingly reinstall new betas, bend and twist things, offer guidance, point out errors and make everything we do much better. This is the larger BoonEx community, which brings vast talent and experience to our enterprise.
To these people, and you know who you are, I unabashedly and humbly offer my deepest respect and genuine thanks for everything you do for BoonEx and its customers. Indeed, it is all of you who comprise the BoonEx All Star Team! Hats off and applause, please!
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So Mike.... Who else at Boonex wants to make that confession?
I simply cannot figure out what a "run by coders company" might look like!! And before anyone says "Google, Microsoft, etc", I do remind you that these companies are run not by coders at all!!!
Programmers would simply go out of business if it wasn´t for the team that does "the rest".
You´re a true pro Mike!
Regards,
Hernán
This is AntonLV's blog where the certification info is: http://www.boonex.com/unity/blog/entry/Product_s_Certification
We all stars would be eager to know what is involved in this certification process see more
For those of us who do contribute alot of time helping other members here at Unity, I would also like to say Kudos. Its people like this that gave me the help I needed back when I first began too. I may not be the best at coding, CSS, or anything for that matter.. But I am willing to give what knowledge I do have to help a little..
@CodeSatory - Of course see more
If you have a look at the post by AntonLV, the mods are "reviewed by a single certified professional", and "you are not allowed to choose the reviewer".
It also states, "The extension ... must be fully functional and meet extensions' requirements and has no potential security and other problems otherwise, it can not be certified."
This see more
Might even add in a couple of tickets more to TRAC and jot down a couple of solid solutions off the top of my head. Right now I don't have time to hack in mods for the market, and I'm not going to pay premium just to be able to be an All Stars free helper before I get a chance to put some of the other benefits into use. At least I made it to MyDatery's grand list the other day --- that's got to count for something! I'll make it a point see more
Very true... I have been learning the aspects of Dolphin for 3 years now and met some great people on here. My greatest praise goes out to YOU Mike, for always being so amazingly thoughtful, and helpful ( you may not know code.... but you TRULY KNOW People :) .... and my second WOW is definitely to JTadeo.... He is above amazing..... and has been right from the start.
"Tigger" :)
@Caltrade - yes - too many to remember and list, and if I left someone out .... just wouldn't be right. You're stars in my book - each one.
@HL- gee Dude! I'm just admitting that I am not good enough to get in there and kick the ball around with you big guys! (taking confessional survey, will see more
"RE: "My skills do NOT include coding or great amounts of technical experience with our software."
Geezuz Mike. you're my support agent. Luv ya, but I need someone who can actually perform support... which in most places would include reading code, discerning proper and improper code.. problem solving of CODE... and TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE.
This could be why I haven't gotten any help with that cron error? Where can I buy someone who can read my cron.php see more
I was pretty freaked to find out my tech isn't exactly a tech. NOW.. let me propose something. If your main skill is in connections and knowing who knows what.. That's a viable skill. Your referrals might have much more value for the time it would take me to find and screen freelancers.
IF they'd re-name your position to "Support Liason", I still might have see more
Seems everytime I need help I have to pay for it and it seems that everytime I try to contact someone to help me from the main company the time lapse is too much to handle .Maybe see more