User talk:Markhobley

Welcome to Rosetta Code! I'm Mike, and I noticed you created an account.

Some quick things you should be aware of:

Template:Mylang	Helps you show what languages you're familiar with, and helps us become aware of skills with languages we haven't seen.
Category:Unimplemented tasks by language	A place to find tasks missing solutions in various languages.
Blogs, twitter, facebook...	We have them, and are interested in yours.
Special:Webchat	Logs you into #rosettacode on the Freenode IRC channel. Not usually the most active communications medium, but occasionally helpful. It's logged at http://irclog.perlgeek.de/rosettacode/today.
Rosetta Code:Village Pump	A general Q/A and discussion area.
Rosetta Code:Finances	For most of Rosetta Code's history, expenses have been paid out of my pocket. I can't afford that much longer, and so you can see the state of Rosetta Code's finances, and how you may help. If you enjoy or are excited about the site, please consider reading through it.

Sorry for the boilerplate; it can be a bit difficult giving an individual greeting to each person. If you post information about your technical interests and background, I'll probably read it. If you already have put that kind of information on your user page, I probably already have; I'm always interested in how people do and can benefit from Rosetta Code. --Michael Mol 02:57, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Please include edit summaries

Just a little note: when editing, it's polite to include something in the summary that says what you've done -- for example, if you add a new solution to a task, it's nice to put something like "added language" in the summary so that others can see what you've done. -- Erik Siers 06:20, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

On that topic, there are options under Special:Preferences if one would like the wiki software to provide a reminder on such things. --Michael Mol 12:30, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Tasks and placeholders

I very much appreciate your work at the creation of those terminal control tasks. Note, however, that by using Template:Task, a page gets registered as a task on Rosetta Code, and shows up in "tasks not implemented in language X" pages until an instance of Template:header shows up on the page, corresponding to language X. With the placeholders as they are on those terminal pages(such as the ones you have), languages are assumed by the system to be completed, even though there isn't any code. Normally, the process would be to create a task page, and only include Template:header for existing blocks of code on the page. Also, check out the recently-created Rosetta Code:Add a Task page, and see if there's anything we can do to help make it clearer and more useful.

Again, thanks! --Michael Mol 22:26, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

ZX Spectrum Basic

ZX Spectrum Basic seems to be considered a separate language from BASIC. As such, it should be placed in alphabetical order just like Visual Basic. If you want it to be included under BASIC headers, propose that it be considered a BASIC implementation and not a separate language, and then use {{works with}} to separate the examples under =={{header|BASIC}}==. --Mwn3d 18:39, 9 May 2011 (UTC)