Massive grongratulations!

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Hartmut, the only problem I would have with that, is that it will allways be /me/ to asign points. It's much simpler now, and - yes - takes much less time than a month ago, but still is not one of my favourite actions. I'd rather answer perl questions :)

Another problem - which proved here already - is that it's not only asigning points, but I also have to *read*, because it is in good habit of the forum that the promotees get 10 points for a reaction on their congratulation thread (provided they enlighten the forum with some private info :). This means that I must also watch is anyone on the list already had his/her own congrat thread already (like Pete, who will show on the promotion list next week). So I invite the promotees to tell something about themselves and collect 10 points (V.V. Ravi, steven Burgess, and Nick Wickens are gladly invited to do so too and collect their 9 additional points)

Martin, updated.
Justo, you tell me :)
Jeanine, you are added.
PIYUSH, thanks
Jeff, you are on the manual list already, so don't complain :P

[Nick Wickens · Accepted solution]

The details of my life are quite inconsequential.... very well, where do i begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for Morris Dancing. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my ........

Actually my life is not nearly as exciting as Doctor Evil's - I work for a Small Insurance (The No 1 in Childrens savings !!!) company in Tunbridge Wells, Kent England and have done so for the last 10 years both on NCR mainframe and HP9000. Prior to that was a 6 year period on IBM MVS mainframes also in Tunbridge Wells, I went to school in Tunbridge Wells, was born in Tunbridge Wells and will probably die in Tunbridge Wells !.

If you want to see how 16 years of IT and shiftwork have effected my waistline check http://www.nickwickens.co.uk.

[KCS_1]

Congratulations~~

All listed up members!

cu @ forum.members

[Chris Wilshaw]

Nick,

I think you've watched Austin Powers one or two times too many :)

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Nick, that's a good one. I had a good laugh.

Merijn, always well done as usual! :-)

I wish Dan could do something about the spacing problem so that the alignment of data (including the headers) will not go into disarray.

My 2 cents. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Merijn,

Sorry, I wasn't complaining.
Just pointing out to Jeanine the J/M situation.

As always Merijn, job well done.
And BTW, I'm shining up a crown for you my friend....not much longer now.
Want me to call all my SA buddies & have 'em post Perl questions? ;^)

Cheers,
Jeff

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Jeff, can they handle obfuscated code? :))
Can you reserve me a leightweight crown with black lining (my favourite color), I'm affraid I have to wear it for a long time, and I am soooo used to this comfy pointy hat.

perl-5.8.0 - the next stable release - is planned for ..... TODAY!

So I guess the perl5 porters team will be flooded by questions the coming month :/

I'll make my ports available on https://www.beepz.com/personal/merijn ASAP

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Duncan Edmonstone
gab jones
Volker Borowski

<< Congratulations on your Royalty >>

steven Burgess
Slootweg
Tim Fulford
Ray Smith
shahul
U.SivaKumar

<< Congratulations on your Wizardry >>

Leif Halvarsson
Nick Wickens
Georg Tresselt
Mike Hassell
Sukant Naik
Baj
Jon Mattatall
Arockia J Jeganathan Pet
Baadsvik
Osmanagic Kocbek
Marc Dijkstra

<< Congratulations on your Graduation >>

Stefan Saliba
Zeller
Tim Schaefer
verhaegen
V. V. Ravi Kumar
Patrick Preuss
Blumenshine
Dave Chamberlin
Dave La Mar
jaeger
Fred Martin
Pat Campbell
Holger Knoppik
Chris Stewart

<< Congratulations on your Professionalism >>

Everyone

<< Keep up the great work! >>

Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[Volker Borowski]

Hello everybody,

excellent job procura! Congrats to all!
Hey, this thing moves fast. Steven has only some 80pts left for egyptian headgear!

What about me ? Well there must be a bio somewhere in this forum, so just as a shortcut:

age 38, single, no kids, in SAP/UNIX/Oracle for about 8 years now, 5 years in development before. What is about to come ? Well, SAP is changing all the time, currently they go for JAVA, so yet another new topic in SAP-Basis.

Have a nice day
Volker

[Justo Exposito]

Hi Procura,

You can give us Graphical Statistics about the forum.

Regards,

Justo.

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

justo: No, not from me, will be too addictive and thus will take too much time.

[V. V. Ravi Kumar_1]

hi Procura,
these are my details.

Iam from Hyderabad, India. My family stays far away from here. My mother is a house wife and my father is a govt. employee.

Iam working in CMC limited as HP_UX system adminstrator. we have two L-class machines with hp-ux 11.0

i joined in forums last year November, and i was not active in forums. but recently i started participating more, and iam enjoying it very much.

thanks to everybody in the forums, who has contributed points for me.

[Seun Ewulomi_1]

Great job Procura.

Thanks for your efforts, its well appreciated.

regards,
gab

[Animesh Chakraborty]

Hi Procura,
It was great.
Can we have another update ?

Regards
Animesh

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

animesh, (and others), I post these statistics in Dan's monthly Success threads

It's up to you to turn these into congratulation threads :)

https://www.beepz.com/personal/merijn/#Stataistics will always show the complete list plus statistics

[Animesh Chakraborty]

Hi Procura
That was great
I jus saw it.
https://www.beepz.com/personal/merijn/id-20021003.html

[Sean OB_1]

Procura,

Thanks a lot for creating this for us. I think it's great to be able to see where you are in the picture, and where others are in relation to you.

Great work!!

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

It started like most things: A temptation. I just couln't resist finding out how the structure of the forum was :) [ See my personal quote ]

[Victor_5]

Excellent, congrats!

[Hai Nguyen_1]

Hu hu hu! Procura, how come you demoted me three times (Wizard > Grad, Grad > Pro, and Pro > nothing). Please look at the last line of the statistics:

...
230 20020716 58 14 100.0 % CA646427 Hai Nguyen

Hai

[someone_4]

Congrats to everyone !!
Great job !

~ Richard

[Wodisch]

Thanks, Merijn!

It's a pleasure to see so many new hats on so many well-known and soon-to-be-well-known names!
So I was "not connected" for about two weeks time and we've got new royalties, wizards, new graduates, pros and Dan knows how many new users...
Did Dan not already wear a "Pro" hat? Am I getting old or did he reincarnate into his pre-hatted state???

Congratulations to all of you and thanks for taking you time to answer!

Knowing exactly how much work these statistics are, I do understand why you won't do it graphically. That was one of the reasons why I stopped doing this statistic business (and your "perl" scripts are much more elaborate than my old "awk" scripts every were, I am sure).
Maybe someone else want to take over that task?

Regards to you all,
Wodisch