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It has been officially discontinued.
-Prakash
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Here's why:
http://www.codeproject.com/script/comments/forums.asp?msg=1475364&forumid=2605#xx1475364xx[^]
About 18 months ago someone posted my (and some other CPians) email addresses on a public forum under the subject "People I hate" - probably someone we argued in The Soapbox with. Luckily for me, it was an old email address, but I'll wager that the enormous amount of spam that address gets nowadays is probably related to this childish behaviour. If email addresses are removed from the mails you send when replying to a post, then this situation could be avoided in future.
Thoughts?
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Or allow users to opt-in from Your code Project Settings[^]
<- newsletter and forum messages sent here
[check] Include address in post notifications to other CPians
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How can you be sure that the email address was taken from the codeproject?
-Prakash
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Mr.Prakash wrote: How can you be sure that the email address was taken from the codeproject?
It may just be a coincidence, but at least 18 of the people on the list I recognise as CPian's.
Michael
CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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Michael P Butler wrote: It may just be a coincidence, but at least 18 of the people on the list I recognise as CPian's.
WOW!
"Opinions are neither right nor wrong. I cannot change your opinion. I can, however, change what influences your opinion." - David Crow
cheers,
Alok Gupta
VC Forum Q&A :- I/ IV
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Interesting Idea Rob, and I can see why you want it. But on the other hand...
A few months ago, I sent you some Java books, and you sent me a STL book. We sorted that out off site, getting each others email addresses from CP post's. We wouldn't be able to do that sort of thing if CP didn't include the senders email address. Just something to consider.
How's the Java course going by the way?
- Dy
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True, but thanks to some childish individual, my old email account is getting hundreds of spam messages a day - if I were still using it, I'd be mighty upset. Tough call, but I'm sure Chris and co. could come up with something.
-Dy wrote: How's the Java course going by the way?
Very well thanks! Got 99% for my first assignment, and I am just about to submit my second. Coming from a C++ background, it isn't hard to pick Java up. It will get more interesting later on in the course though, once I start learning more about the language and the various helper classes (collections, etc.).
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Done.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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It will be nice if an option is provided for the user to have a filter on the questions posted by him/her.It will be easy to locate the answers for the questions otherwise seaching is very dificult.
Regards,
Uma
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Like this[^]
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
--Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
My: Website | Blog
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Hi
The newsletter archive is only updated until March 2006. When do the
newer newsletters get added?
http://www.codeproject.com/script/newsletter/newsletters/
Thanks.
bye Fabi
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Hi,
I found a big security threat in codeproject.com
Please mail me on savan_thakkar@rediffmail.com to know the details.
Thanks & Regards,
Savan Thakkar.
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If you were smart enough to find a big security threat in codeproject.com, why would you post your email address in plain text for spammers?
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may be he was talking to Chris and he did not wanted to post the problem in the forum for everyone to read,
Probably Chris will be interested no matter how it comes.
-Prakash
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Can you do anything about accounts used only for advertising of commercial products, thus spamming a forum?
Like this one:
http://www.codeproject.com/script/comments/all_comments.asp?mode=all&userid=2404033
I didn't bother the first time but the company seems determined to repost their ads every couple of months. I understand that companies need to advertise their products. But as long as I don't post in their forums saying "hey guys, you can have the same for free at codeproject" I expect them to stay out of article forums unless they have something to say related to the article.
I guess the next time I will download their evaluation product benchmark it against mine and publish the results with full details and on the article. This could indeed be fun.
Regards
Ingo
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Any spam is deleted as soon as it's reported.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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What's up with searching message boards? It's painfully slow leading to non-use, leading to re-posts etc.
I just searched for the phrase "tape backup" in the lounge within the first four months of this year and it took as long as it took to type this message out to find it.
I can't imagine why it's taking more than 1 second for that type of search unless the search is implemented as some sort of brute force searching through the actual messages?
If that's the case, why not break and index every message as it's posted or modified into a dictionary and index table in the database and search that table instead?
This would reduce the search time by many orders of magnitude.
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John Cardinal wrote: What's up with searching message boards? It's painfully slow
Yeah. It has never returned me any results. Just strugling and hang at certain percentage of the progress bar. Some one told me that it works --- just a little slow. But I waited for 30 minutes and got nothing. 
Maxwell Chen
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I think they are using the Microsoft full text indexing built into SQL server. It's never been that fast, so on a site like this with competing queries it isn't going to be that zippy. Also if you hit it while it is rebuilding indexes it is going to take even longer.
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Hmmm...I don't know about full text indexing, we considered it for a project and decided it wasn't good enough. Still I can't imagine it's that slow. I could do a brute force search in the time it takes to search even a few months in the lounge now so if it's not a brute force method it's badly broken.
I've built indexing and searching functionality in our business apps for years, it's pretty simple once you get the word breaking and excerpt retrieving down pat (even easier if you use my articles I published here on those exact topics  ).
To search a dictionary of unique words and cross reference them to an index of posts should be a split second operation.
I think it's a very important area to address because it's leading to all sorts of redundant posts and seriously limiting the basic functionality of this site.
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John Cardinal wrote: To search a dictionary of unique words and cross reference them to an index of posts should be a split second operation.
It probably is, you just have to wait for all the other thousands of split second operations ahead of you, the database is handling thousands of queries per second. Plus there is probably a bit of memory pressure so unless something is used constantly the caches are going to be pushed out of memory and paged out to disk. Plus if there is one other common slow operation then under load everything will be pushed toward the performance of that query.
I'm not a fan of the microsoft search tools. Both from performance and user friendlyness. They should have a query mode like google that lets you use any type of query instead of telling it that you want to use boolean for example. I've had to use the integrated SQL engine in the past and ended up exporting documents out of the database and using index server to index HTML pages because we could get more control over how documents were searched and get better performance searching what would be multiple tables. Plus at the time the indexes had to be manually rebuilt. With index server the indexes were build incrementally as soon as a document was added. Plus getting the full text queries off SQL server helped out with performance.
John Cardinal wrote: I think it's a very important area to address because it's leading to all sorts of redundant posts and seriously limiting the basic functionality of this site.
I don't think there is going to be a good search until CP moves to a new technology for search or Microsoft productizes the stuff they are doing for MSN.
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book,
only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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I understand the load issues, but rolling your own word breaking, indexing and searching stuff isn't rocket science and it's quite easy to squeeze many orders of magnitude better performance out of that when it's custom built for a specific application than a generic multi-purpose app.
Searching is such an important feature that if it's truly a load issue that's hampering it, it really should be a dedicated server for indexing and searching.
I don't know, it's obviously more difficult than it seems from the outside and running a website for developers can't be easy with a million of us in the peanut gallery thinking how we could do it better. I guess I should just accept it and worry about my own stuff! 
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John Cardinal wrote: I don't know, it's obviously more difficult than it seems from the outside and running a website for developers can't be easy with a million of us in the peanut gallery thinking how we could do it better. I guess I should just accept it and worry about my own stuff!
I'd imagine that is the hardest part, especially since we all have our own little pet peeves, search, performance, HTML layout, etc. Though, better forum search is up there with things I'd like to see. At least most of the 500s and timeouts have cleared up.
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book,
only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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