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Started by u/pimathbrainiac • November 16, 2014, 01:29:50 PM
The CodeWalrus project
EDIT (by DJ): If you can see this message, this means that you are one of the few members who have been granted access to this website, or you are reading this late and the site already opened before you did so.CodeWalrus ( ), which was founded on October 25th 2014 under the TI-Walrus project name, is a group of game programmers for mobile devices such as TI calculators, hosting a discussion forum dedicated to game programming for mobile platforms ranging from TI/Casio/H...
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • December 09, 2014, 12:55:09 AM
Registrations disabled for the time being
Due to some issues with OneAll Social Login that resulted into people being able to circumvent the admin approval mode when registering (and thus, getting forum access instantly), we have currently disabled registrations until we have confirmed that admin approval can still be used without any way it can be circumvented. That said, closed-beta is pretty much closed to registrations by now anyway so it probably doesn't matter at this point.Whoever created an account that can be identified will no...
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • December 10, 2014, 04:40:25 PM
Registrations enabled again (but not approved)
Registrations have been enabled again, requiring manual administrator approval of the accounts. We checked to ensure that it is also the case for social network-based registrations as well and if that's not the case, then social login will be disabled until the first. People can now sign up fine, but we will not approve any new account until January 1st. An e-mail will be automatically sent when they are approved.
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • December 13, 2014, 12:24:16 AM
We are now on Twitter and Facebook!
Now that the next step to reveal ourselves is underway, we are happy to announce that we now have a Facebook page! also have a Twitter account: on January 1st 2015, you will be able to get notifications about new forum topics there, as well as some site updates, so make sure to follow us.
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • December 20, 2014, 09:41:18 PM
Only 10 days left before public opening!
(Cross-posted from and )Now that December 19th has passed, here is a little update about the site current status, for people who did not have the chance to learn about the plan or people who just signed up and might have been wondering why their forum account is not being approved yet:-Basically, to sum things up, it is possible to create new f...
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • January 01, 2015, 02:47:30 PM
CodeWalrus opens its doors to public
Over two months after being founded and 7 weeks after its forum started operating in private mode, CodeWalrus finally opens its doors to public! It all started early in June 2014, when the idea of creating this new forum came to birth in a discussion between me and pimathbrainiac. On October 24th, it finally started for real, with us two, along with aeTIos, juju and Streetwalrus as founders. Many reasons were behind the starting of thi...
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Started by u/aetios • January 18, 2015, 08:02:31 PM
Staff Announcements - January '15
Hey everybody, report from your staff here!It's been a few weeks since we launched, and I hope everyone has been enjoying it so far here. We're always looking for points to improve so if you have any ideas, post them. You might just have this epic idea that we never thought of!In the few weeks since we launched, we've already gone through a few changes:- pimathbrainiac has resigned from his staff position, because he's very busy with regular life and he told us he can't have the additional...
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • January 26, 2015, 05:46:20 PM
CodeWalrus now available in 4 languages!
With our growing non-English native userbase, we have decided to add multiple languages to the forum software: Dutch, French and Japanese. Although support for those languages is partial (custom navigation and menu options are still in English and Japanese translation is incomplete), hopefully this should make it easier for our visitors or members who have troubles using the website in English.You can change your language settings at the top of every page to the right of CodeWalrus logo, via a d...
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • February 14, 2015, 05:03:31 PM
Hayleia and Matrefeytontias joins the Elite Coder group
In a previous announcement , we started doing staff updates and made the new Elite Coder group, designed as a badge for notable programmers that offers some extra forum privileges, an official thing. The announcement stated that the next one would be on February 14th. Today we are pleased to announce the addition of Hayleia and matrefeytontias to the [url= ;sa=members...
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • November 28, 2014, 07:25:15 AM
Walrification begins monday!
Starting Monday , this is when, in the calculator community, you will start seeing signs that CodeWalrus exists. Since this week began, some of our staff members have started using the tagline "Remember the day the walrus started to fly..." in their forum signatures on other forums and my Bandcamp music store was redesigned to fit the site theme. On December 1st 2014 , as forum avatars, it's Walrii...
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • March 02, 2015, 06:29:58 AM
Topic tags feature, rule amending, staff update and new sub-forum
We were supposed to announce this last week, but the TI-Connect and Ndless news delayed it, but we are pleased to introduce a new forum feature: Topic tags! Basically, in your topic title, if you put some text inside brackets ( , for example), it will now be converted into a color tag that can be clicked. Clicking the tag will allow you to quickly search the forums for similar topics! It also draws attention more so if, for example, your project is...
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Started by u/Yuki • March 04, 2015, 03:43:47 AM
CodeWalrus to reopen its doors
Well, that was quick. As we said, we had some staff departures today:- aeTIos lacks the time to do any admining, he therefore resigns;- Streetwalrus don't have any time either, he takes a hiatus and may come back to the position at a later date.So we're now in severe understaffing, as a result, we decided to close the site and made a closing post . However, as we decided the fate of the website, we concluded the best course of action would actually to leave it op...
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • March 13, 2015, 05:11:25 AM
CW restructure, major updates and upcoming events
With just three staff members left and fear that I would have been forced to take a hiatus in a few months, the only way to continue keeping the website alive was to process into a restructure of our staff system. When I ran Omnimaga (which I founded in 2001), the main staff had some activity requirements to meet in order to ensure that we can maintain the website adequatly and keep its activity steady. That idea was transplanted into CodeWalrus when I co-founded it in October 2014. However, the...
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Started by u/novenary • March 15, 2015, 03:58:05 PM
Reboot incoming
15:52:50 up 94 days, 17:08, 10 users, load average: 0.25, 0.48, 0.65 Server upgrade, time to reboot. I'm gonna do it sometime today around 20:00 UTC, should be only a couple minutes of downtime at most so don't panic. IRC channels are still available in the meantime if you need them. UPDATE (by DJ): The server reboot by Streetwalrus went on smoothly.
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Started by u/Yuki • March 18, 2015, 12:38:16 AM
How to throw money at walruses
Hey, it's me, Juju, four favourite admin in charge of funding. As you probably know, this site runs on a low budget (basically, we pay for hosting, the domain name and eventual contest prizes, it's not that expensive) and there's quite a few people who were asking me how they can help to keep the site alive. So, figures I'd make a post on how to do so.One way to throw money at us, I mean, donate is the Subscriptions feature of SMF. Go in [url= ;area=subs...
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • March 31, 2015, 06:23:05 PM
Freenode IRC syncing discontinued
Due to lack of users and the fact that almost everybody who use #CodeWalrus IRC channel are already on EFnet, Omninet or using one of the two forum shoutboxes, we have come to the decision to discontinue Freenode support and linking for #CodeWalrus. From now on, in order to use the #CodeWalrus IRC channel, you will have to use one of the following method:-Connect to EFnet then join #CodeWalrus-Connect to Omninet then join #CodeWalrus-WalrusIRC (main website IRC shoutbox)-OmnomIRC (alternate one...
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Started by u/novenary • April 01, 2015, 03:14:20 PM
(APRIL FOOLS) CodeWalrus to promote walrus hallucinogens
What follows is an April Fools joke. The psychedelic forum theme remains available as secondary theme, though, since some people wanted it to remain available as an option in their profile settings. (For French people, ceci était un Poisson d'Avril. Walrii aime beaucoup le pwésson ) Faisant partie d'une récente campagne hallucinogne, nous avons décidé de mettre en place une nouvelle espèce à partir de fluides gastriques de morses. Ainsi le site a changé de thè...
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • April 01, 2015, 12:25:38 AM
(APRIL FOOLS) CodeWalrus to become French-only starting next month
UPDATE: Following was an April Fools joke. We are remaining an English website, so don't worry, you won't need to learn French. Fun fact, though: April fools day in French is "Poisson d'Avril" (April Fish), and walruses love fishes and seafood. As you might have noticed, our website logo has changed, now reading "Le Morse de la Prog" instead of "CodeWalrus". Although CodeWalrus is an English-speaking website, the entire staff team speaks French as its native...
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Started by u/novenary • March 19, 2015, 10:18:36 AM
The Efnet channel is back
We managed to get ops back on the Efnet IRC channel so you guys are now free to join it again.
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • May 19, 2015, 03:51:10 PM
Unexpected site downtime
There was some unexpected downtime a few minutes ago, which was caused by a broken SMF modification package that did not uninstall itself properly. When installing SMF mods they are stacked on top of each others, meaning that to uninstall certain mods you sometimes have to uninstall the rest, and some mod packages are not made properly, which makes things worse.As a result, we had to attempt reinstalling SMF from scratch then re-install the mods one by one, which failed, so we instead had to res...
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • May 23, 2015, 06:39:08 AM
IRC/WalrusIRC partial downtime
Some features on WalrusIRC, such as the post notifier bot and syncing of messages/joins/parts between Omninet and EFnet networks, are currently out of service, due to Omnimaga downtime. Chatting from EFnet and WalrusIRC shoutbox remains operational without the bots that were connected via the affected server. The missing chat features will return as soon as Omnimaga does or if the bot owners connect their respective bots to a different server.Accessing #CodeWalrus via Omninet might still be poss...
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Started by u/novenary • May 25, 2015, 10:34:06 PM
Unexpected downtime - Streetwalrus commits harakiri
So yeah, mysql update temporarily blocked access to the db, it's back up now.Damn, that was the scare of my life. ._.And no I didn't really commit harakiri, I couldn't write this post otherwise.
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • June 11, 2015, 12:51:00 AM
Cumred_Snektron and DarkestEx now Elite Coders
In light of their increasing contributions to the forums and their recent releases, we are pleased to award Elite Coder spots to two CodeWalrus members: Cumred_Snektron and DarkestEx !Although Cumred has only joined the TI community in late 2014, he has released the following programs (some of which are still in the works):- FBO Particles System for Windows-DovahCalc for both the [url= ...
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • July 01, 2015, 12:10:19 AM
Alexgt promoted to Elite Coder & Spring CWPN Newsletter out
Two weeks ago, Cumred and DarkestEx were promoted to Elite Coders, but it was only a matter of time before Alexgt becomes part of that group as well. Today, it is now a reality!Like Cumred, Alexgt joined the community in late 2014, although he became active a while later. Despite being new, he already has stunning projects for the HP Prime:- Mineprime: Minecraft for the HP Prime , which is coming along nicely and features very smooth speed-[url=h...
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • July 08, 2015, 05:20:52 AM
Facebook/Twitter/Google login disabled (now re-enabled)
I have decided to disable logging in and registering via social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and Google until further notice. Currently, OneAll servers, which handles forum account linking with social networks, are not reachable, which caused every forum page to take over 1 minute to load or give SQL errors.We encourage posting at to suggest the addition of an user-configurable connection timeout feature (like what th...
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Started by u/Yuki • June 21, 2015, 09:44:51 PM
New feature: Social networking
We're glad to announce yet another feature: links to social networks in profiles! They will show up in your profile and in topic view as icons to the appropriate website, so you can easily find an user's profile on social networks and messaging apps. So far we implemented Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, Skype (it was already there before), YouTube and GitHub and their icons in topic view will come soon. Please go to the approp...
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • July 02, 2015, 12:36:29 AM
Posting one topic in multiple sub-forums is now possible!
Have you ever made a calculator project, but then been forced to create a second topic for it in order to release it in the downloads archives? Have you ever ran into the dilemma about where to put the topic of a project that is both for calculators and computers or a discussion that fits way more than one category?Well, good news: CodeWalrus now has a new feature called "Clone Topic"! Basically, you can request a staff member that a topic be listed into multiple sections, for which we recommend...
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Started by u/novenary • August 09, 2015, 09:54:43 PM
PSA: CW downtime and data loss
Tonight, a former admin and co-founder of the site who had stepped down but was still trusted with root access to the server broke down and deleted the entire filesystem of the server. I had to restore a week-old backup to get it back up and running, so a lot of posts will be missing. We apologize for the trouble.User has been permanently banned for site vandalism and multiple episodes of defamatory content (although the latter would only have resulted in 3 days of moderator preview and no IRC a...
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • September 04, 2015, 05:00:01 AM
(Updated) Back-to-school site additions and changes
With school starting comes site updates! First of all, we are sorry to announce that Duke "Tape" Eiyeron will no longer be full time CodeWalrus staff. He will now be part of the "part-time maintenance" group. As he moved on from forums in general, he could no longer fullfill his full staff position, but he will still help when he can, while also trying to find time to work on his projects. He also retains his Elite Coder badge. We hope that he can still pop in every now and t...
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • September 28, 2015, 12:20:11 AM
CodeWalrus restructure
In order to adapt to today's calculator community, we have decided to perform changes to our internal staff policies. The first change was made to our staff activity policies. They forced every full-time staff to post at least once a day on the forums whenever the site averaged under 3000 posts a month. Above 3000, the requirement was three times lower. Now, the requirement will be closer to what Omnimaga had when I ran it: 10 posts a month, with the difference being that the gap between each po...
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • October 10, 2015, 10:45:22 PM
Cumred and Ivoah join staff
CodeWalrus have been short on staff for several months now. While three regularly active staff members are generally enough to keep up with our average activity of 50 posts per day, this proves to be quite problematic when it comes to site management during periods where one or more staff are busier with life duties, during busier periods in the community and during political matters. In the end, this results into delays in everything, such as the Summer newsletter, which was supposed to be out ...
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Started by u/novenary • November 04, 2015, 02:04:26 PM
New IRC channels
We decided to create a couple side channels for CW on Efnet IRC, two new channels are now available to public : #cw-anime and #cw-spam. The former is dedicated to anime fans in general, while the latter will have looser rules compared to the main #CodeWalrus channel (especially with regard to bots, the rule thread will be updated accordingly).Note that we're not going to pull an Eeems here, all kinds of discussion are welcome in the main channel as long as it remains within the site rules.The ch...
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Started by u/novenary • October 26, 2015, 08:05:19 PM
Goodbye Eiyeron
It's with regret that I have to announce that Eiyeron has decided to take a leave from the community. He just entered university and wants to focus on his studies and start a new life. As such, he is stepping down from his moderator position and is not expected to come back to CW anytime soon.Goodbye Eiyo, it was fun having you around.
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • November 10, 2015, 07:48:25 AM
Recent site updates
Although most were minor, there were quite a few site updates recently, some including changes:-The comic and TV shows sub-forum has been renamed to Media Talk. The Gaming and Walkthrough board was also renamed to Gaming, as it confused some people.-The forum rules were updated with IRC-specific rules to clarify our bots policy, following the recent addition of new IRC channels. Forum rule #10 was also added: Microcat console project sub-forum now features its own them...
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • October 24, 2015, 05:26:34 AM
CodeWalrus turns 1 year old
1 year ago, it happened: CodeWalrus became a thing. It was the day the walrus started to fly. While the idea was first brought up on September 6th 2011 then discussed in June 2014, it is on October 24th 2014 that this new website and forum project officially started. At the time, no official name had been chosen yet, although TI-Walrus, CalcWalrus and TI-Legacy were among the first being considered. A few days later, a name that is less calculator-centric was chosen: CodeWalrus. Then the http://...
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Started by u/Yuki • January 01, 2016, 07:48:02 AM
Happy new year/birthday/POTY 2016!
Well, it's 2016 now, hope you guys had a good 2015! Thinking of that, it's been our first full year, as CodeWalrus officially opened to the public on January 1st, 2015, and quite a lot of stuff happened since then. Good stuff, bad stuff, well this is what shaped our beloved new forum through the year.Speaking of which, the Program of the Year (POTY) results for the year 2015 just came out on ticalc.org , celebrating the be...
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • December 24, 2015, 09:05:43 AM
Major CW sub-forum changes underway
After some discussions and with 2016 arriving, we have decided to apply some changes to the structure of the CodeWalrus forum categories and sections. It is not complete yet and most topics haven't been moved yet, but here are the highlights:-CodeWalrus Website: Site updates now split from feedback-Featured Projects: No changes-Development and Multimedia:1) Development is now a separate category from Multimedia2) There are now two calculator s...
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Started by u/Yuki • February 11, 2016, 08:56:17 PM
1000th topic
Figured I'd celebrate this milestone by creating the 1000th topic. Congrats, everyone.
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Started by u/novenary • February 13, 2016, 07:40:05 PM
News editors
We finally decided it was time to have dedicated news editors on the forum. We are aware that some people are willing to write periodic news or just standalone articles more often than we actually post things on the front page. That's why we are now introducing the News editor group, which grants the ability to post news to the front page without going through a moderator.The first member to be granted this privilege is pimathbrainiac with his monthly project recap. Thanks for...
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Started by u/aetios • February 21, 2016, 08:20:20 PM
Warning: Staff Updates Inside
There have been some changes to staff recently: 123outerme got promoted to Elite Coder. Congratulations, 123outerme! I ( aeTIos ) rejoined staff as Topic Moderator after resigning from staff early 2015 due to being very busy with school. If you have any topic moderation to be done, poke me any time Another Elite Coder is pending approval, but personal life issues have prevented him from joining for now. ...
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • March 24, 2016, 05:59:08 PM
Staff, Elite Coder and affiliation updates
In the last two months, there have been some staff, Elite Coder and affiliation changes on CodeWalrus, but not much time to write a news about them. Some just happened now, but others are a long overdue, news-wise, so here they are:-Although this actually happened over a month ago, we are pleased to have aeTIos back in the CodeWalrus staff group. He had to step down in March 2015 because he no longer had the time to contribute, but since then, the staff requirements changed an...
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Started by u/aetios • April 01, 2016, 12:01:06 PM
New April Fools site themeing
EDIT (DJ): Yep, this was fake. But if there are enough requests, maybe there will be an option to invert the site theme in the future or a separate one with the option enabled. Sup everyone! You probably have noticed that as of recently we've been working on improving the Codewalrus user experience, because of course we want you to have the best possible experience using our great site. Because of that today we enter the first phase of the rollout of the new theme we have been developing. ...
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Started by u/Yuki • April 07, 2016, 06:31:10 AM
New arcade!
Well, this was a feature we were shooting for since the site opened, then probably forgot about, but here's a new section of the site we just opened: The Arcade. You might remember it as a rather popular feature back in the Invisionfree and SMF 1.1 days on Omnimaga, well it's pretty much the same principle, but this time we're adding the games the community made, be it a web game, a calc game or a PC game, as long it works in the arcade. More and more games will be added over time, we hope you e...
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • May 09, 2016, 03:32:37 AM
MOVED: boi dat unicycle
This topic has been moved to Randomness .
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Started by u/Yuki • April 13, 2016, 05:00:09 AM
Want some walrus swag? (CW badges)
Got those things printed today (thanks mom!), it looks pretty nice. I might get some more of them printed and made into those 3" round badges (also available in 1") and give them away (provided shipping isn't terribly expensive, for things like those I guess it shouldn't), otherwise there's Redbubble or something like that, or in person shall we ever meet. You can reco...
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • June 17, 2016, 03:19:36 AM
Introducing Monthly/Yearly CW Project Awards and disbanding of Elite Coder group
Back in December 2014, we created the Elite Coder user group in order to allow more prominent programmers, regardless of if their games have a mainstream name and genre or not, to gain more visibility for their projects and themselves. In return, the ones who were rewarded had to be somewhat active on CodeWalrus forums and show their commitment to the community. Unfortunately, with the changing demographics of the TI community in recent years, it eventually became clear to us that the Elite Code...
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Started by u/Dream of Omnimaga • June 30, 2016, 05:21:27 AM
How the CW Monthly Project Award will work
So I thought I should clarify some stuff about the CodeWalrus Monthly Project Award that starts tomorrow night. Here is how it will work:1-Basically, once June is over, a poll will be posted on the forums and front page, with a news article listing all active projects this month.2-In the poll, you will check boxes for your 5 favorite projects or projects that you find the most worthy.3-The number of projects you can select in your vote...
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