Milestones:

New Geniuses: rindi, a long-time member of the Topic Advisor team, has earned his sixth Genius certificate, in Linux Distributions. Reaching their first 1,000,000 point levels were footech, in Powershell, and diggisaur, in Exchange Server. Well done!

• capricorn1, second overall in the Hall of Fame, has earned 28,000,000 points
• hancocka has become just the fifth member to earn 20,000,000 points
• TheLearnedOne reached the 18,000,000 points
• By going over 2,000,000 points in SQL Server 2008, acperkins has reached that level in three different topic areas
• Merete has earned 9,000,000 points since joining
• Qlemo has reached the 7,000,000 points

My First Million:

Reaching the 1,000,000 point threshold in December were Kimputer, Bitsqueezer and fmarshall; they were joined in January by vasilcho, mankowitz and mattvmotas. Congratulations!

Kudos:

colonelblue searched high and low to find out how to hide — or not — some kinds of items on specific SharePoint pages. Topic Advisor teylyn got him squared away:

Happy Dance!!!! Teylyn you are a god! No one else in the web could answer it!
Thank you!!! Certified Genius!

Over the years, we’ve come to expect byundt to receive accolades when he posts sample workbooks like the one he did for elimishia’s question about counting blank rows:

[…] Dealing with Byundt has been a very positive experience. The solution was exactly what I wanted, enhanced by the many additional suggestions when it didn’t initially work (something I did). Added to that, the promptness of the help was amazing. Having an answer so quickly has directly effected productivity — positively. Thank-you.

Awarded Articles:

It’s been a while since we have highlighted articles, and there’s no time like the present to get caught up.

Consulting & Contracting: How to go out on your own by Jim Horn

More Fun with Really Large, High Fidelity Images in Access Reports by Nick67

Experts: Be alerted by email when a user mentions your name in a question by Terry Woods

Efficient String Clean-up — Removing Internal Duplicate Spaces by aikimark

A jQuery Progress Bar by Ray Paseur

10 Steps to Speed Up Your Website by Gary

CCTableTree – Display and edit hierarchy tables in Access continous forms without ActiveX by Bitsqueezer

Open Data APIs: Using technology to get more value from your government by marlon_rnr

Ye Olde Generic Parsing Module by MikeOM_DBA

Excel Conditional Formatting – The Better To See You With by Glenn Ray

How-To: Shrink a VMware Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) in 15 minutes by Andrew Hancock

What’s new with WordPress 3.7 & 3.8 by Matthew Kelly