On 04/15/2004 01:54 AM, Andy B wrote:
one question though.... how can you tell if a class or package you are writting or want to attempt to write has ever been created before?? 99.99999% of the time anything i ever thought of for classes/packages to write are either too simple or the idea has already been created before...
i.e. i want to make something different but dont know how to start with it i guess....
Although the idea of offering prizes to winners is compelling just by itself, interested authors should not participate just because the award was created and provides prizes to winners.
There should be other reasons to partipate, like sharing the work that you may have developed when you tried to solve your own development problems using solutions that you found to solve those problems well probably introducing innovative approaches.
Contributions that qualify as innovative may be not absolutely original. The approach itself may have original aspects, at least in the PHP world or just considering what has been submitted to the site so far.
Anyway, innovation does not come from your first attempts to solve your current problems. Innovation often comes when you try to improve your current solutions.
Even if you do not have now a package to submit that may be considered innovative, maybe if you continue perfecting your current solutions to your own problems, maybe you will find innovating soon or later and then you will be ready to submit something that may qualify to be nominated to win the award.
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