They are so many authors that post literally CRAP, and double their files instead of putting everything in one single zip.
Cought!kermCought! Sorry. It's cold out there.

*Cough*At least capitalize my name, and I'm not the only one*cough* hmm, it seems to be catching...

oh whoops sorry kerm martian, my shift key seems to be broken. i must agree tht you upload a bunch of crap.

Come on, lets not bash on Kerm because he doesnt upload a lot of really good programs. There is nothing wrong with what he does. Maybe Kerm should get his files reorganized to make you people happy and stop attacking him.

I feel it is my duty to point out that he has sent in a couple e-mail submission to me stating some programs that he would like removed...

Yes, he could reduce his programin half if he grouped them, but he has the right to do it his way too. I give Kerm props for being creative. I certainly couldn't think of some of the programs he has made....

Plus he has a featured file now, you can never bash on a featured author :-), not until you are one of course!

Good call! ;-)

Hey, the point of this article is NOT to flame Kerm. >:O

There's nothing wrong with uploading simple routines for beginners to use.

He should group all of them so that the beginners have an easier time finding them.

Hey his OfficeDE for the ti-83P is pretty damn good for a Basic prog. Its also a free spreadsheet (and some other stuff), whether its in basic or not.

Thank you! Do you have any suggestions for making it better / more advanced?

Why not make two categories:
-Temporary
-Definite

When the user posts a program, it goes in the temporary folder when the users can view it. When it is accepted, you can move it to the definite folder.

Voting would make things complicated and too many subfolders would make things harder to get.

Another thing, some people post their programs two times.(ie: TI-83, TI-83Plus) There should be something that let's you copy the program without necesserally having to send it two times and it wouldn't make your programs list two times bigger than it should be.

Someone suggested to start over. If you are thinking about that, you could use PHP and a MySQL database instead of CGI.

If you need anything, do not hesitate to contact me.

*chuckles at the thought of starting over*

We already use SQL, by the way.

How about having a web-based SQL Expression form? :)
That way users can filter just what they want.

(I'm kidding by the way, not enough people know SQL)

It would be nice to have sql also allow you to sort out files ou have veiwed already, or ranked already.

Hey I am not trying to be to some people but why dont Ticalc just get rid of some of the shells that are made in basic and games that arent finished and what not! Some of these programs that are made are really useless! I have to admitt some of mine are useless but i found out some people do use them!

I doubt that I sparked the idea, but I emailed the staff a a couple weeks ago and asked them to clean out my profile. About half of my files (from the begininning of my programming days) were crap. Having realized this and also knowing how it is to look for programs with all the crap around, I told them what I wanted deleted and they seemed more than willing to do it.

Well, lets just say that we get about an e-mail every 5 days requesting some sort of change. So it was not directly you, but an accuimulation of many e-mails that eventually annoyed me :-)

And you are right, just e-mail filearchive@ticalc.org for any changes to your author profile that you can't make by a simple update.

Thanks, Morgan. Anyway, may I suggest a little "Delete" button next to a file in the "Manage Author Information" section? I know it would have helped you and I out. But if this happens, files may just disappear, which is why you should have an email to confirm the deletion.

Well, as I have said before this could be compromised by other people gaining access to accounts that aren't theirs, tus you could see yourentire author profile dissappear. Just e-mail filearchive@ticalc.org I answer it and am fairly good at responding with in a day.

"Well, as I have said before this could be compromised by other people gaining access to accounts that aren't theirs, tus you could see yourentire author profile dissappear. Just e-mail filearchive@ticalc.org I answer it and am fairly good at responding with in a day."

Hence the reason there would be an email confirmation like I said.