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Experts Exchange Milestones reached by "fanpages" a.k.a "fp." (but not "BFN"):

-> 18 December 2005 <-

First 1,000 questions answered & first 1,000,000 points accumulated across 25 Topic Areas, including Certifications as follows:

Programming - Master Level (Rank: 52/5,014)
Microsoft Office - Master Level (Rank: 23/1,980)
Microsoft Access - Master Level (Rank: 143/4,144)
Visual Basic - Master Level (Rank: 50/7,125)
Microsoft Excel - Sage Level (Rank: 8/638)

(Ranked 134th out of 70,824 total registered Experts)

-> 23 December 2005 <-

Visual Basic - Guru Level (Rank: 50/7,132)

(Ranked 133rd out of 70,948 total registered Experts)

-> 20 June 2006 <-

Microsoft Excel - Genius Level (Rank: 8/732)

(Ranked 108th out of 75,154 total registered Experts)

-> 15 September 2006 <-

Reached rank #100 (out of 76,517) with 1,610,983 points across 26 Topic Areas
Questions Answered: 1,564 / Questions Participated: 1,211 / Questions Asked: 0 (zero)

Microsoft Excel - Genius Level (Rank: 7/794) with 1,149,646 points

Visual Basic - Guru Level (Rank: 32/7,353) with 240,812 points

Microsoft Office - Master Level (Rank: 25/2,116) with 65,213 points
Microsoft Access - Master Level (Rank: 158/4,366) with 64,865 points
Programming - Master Level (Rank: 57/5,836) with 62,442 points

-> 1 May 2007 <-

"Suspended Account Notice

Dear fanpages,
Your Experts Exchange Premium Services account has been suspended"
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# Questions questions, give me no answers, That's all they ever give me...
To cut a long story short I lost my mind

(Fortunately I have a backup around here somewhere)

[ http://www.experts-exchange.com/QH_258171.html ]

Questions Asked: 0 / Questions Open: 0 / Questions Graded: 0 / Questions Deleted: 0
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"Congratulations to our new Wizard-fanpages"
(19 July 2005)
[ http://www.experts-exchange.com/Applications/MS_Office/Excel/Q_21496148.html ]

"I've found (to my chagrin) that on questions where we both post code, {fanpages} has often coded for data possibilities that I hadn't even imagined."
~byundt

"{fanpages} brings a wealth of web and database experience that, like the others here, helps us round out the solutions and teaches us alternate approaches to solving some of the unusual problems that arise."
~zorvek
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"Congratulations to our new Sage-fanpages"
(31 October 2005)      
[ http://www.experts-exchange.com/Applications/MS_Office/Excel/Q_21613770.html ]

"{fanpages} is one of those people who are so good that I don't even try tackling a VBA problem once I see he has posted code... his bullet-proof code puts to shame any first attempt (and possibly second or third) that I might come up with."
~byundt

"...once you see fp code in a thread, its usually unwise to add your own version.  Unless the asker wants code that is less than 30 lines long :)  Your overall vb knowledge is very respectable, and constant use of error checking is something we should all strive to do."
~mvidas

"Our longtime resident guru who has a questionable sense of humour and unquestionable coding talent :)"
~brettdj
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"Congratulations to our new Genius--fanpages"
(21 June 2006)
[ http://www.experts-exchange.com/Applications/MS_Office/Excel/Q_21893566.html ]

"{fanpages} has a well-deserved reputation for code that anticipates (and solves) many of the different ways that a user can cause a macro to fail. If he has already posted in a problem, as mvidas so aptly put it, the only hope of besting him is if the user really wanted to solve the problem in fewer than 30 lines of code."
~byundt

"{fanpages}, it's a pleasure to share the threads with you. You are THE master of written word buffoonery and you make me laugh - day and night. You know how to be the perfect gentleman one minute and then turn around and skewer the unsuspecting victim with a stinging repartee.  Your code is pretty good too."
~zorvek

"Your code is always impressive, but where I am impressed the most is in how you consistently set the bar high for error handling and for anticipating almost all the ways something can go wrong.  It's definitely an example that I could do well to follow."
~matthewspatrick

"I am always gobsmacked by just how prolific you are at producing code. Not only that  but it seems to be more bullet-proof than code from any other contributor here. Just how you find the time to hold down a job and produce so much on a pro bono basis beats me."
~patrickab
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Find me here:

[ http://www.1upGamers.com ]
[ http://www.1upGamers.com/forums/ ]
[ http://www.1upGamers.com/author/fanpages ]

Or here:

[ http://www.AVForums.com]
[ http://www.HotUKDeals.com ]
[ http://www.ThreeSpeech.com ]

Occasionally here:

[ http://fanpages.f2s.com ]

Sometimes elsewhere:

[ http://backtype.com/fanpages ]

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