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OT: The latest patch from VMWare seems to have sorted out all my problems with it.
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Has it? I'll download it and give it a go then.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Well I've had some problems with the motherboard (lack of audio, or rather just lots of static) so it went off, I can't actually remember what stage I got to but when I booted up VMWare it said there was a patch available, I downloaded it and haven't experienced any problems so far (but haven't had any time to investigate all the problems I had).
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The new CodeProject is like the 'Sivaji' (Rajinikanth) film. There were news about its release even since 2006 but only hit the screens sometime in June 2007.
It was a great wait worth watching. 
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: even since 2006 but only hit the screens sometime in June 2007.
Well I think this has been slightly longer, more like Duke Nukem's latest game (I think I've got the right one, where they've been talking about it for years).
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There are certain people in the C# / ASP.NET that constantly cross post / duplicate posts / and generally have a bad attitude. I imagine this happens in other forums. This is not the usual 'plz help quick - I need a banking adminstration application' question. They sometimes have real questions, but they abuse the boards.
How about a 'cross poster' link, similar to the 'abuse / spam' buttons that only the MVPs can see and if pressed the OPs name is suffixed with a black spot so we know these people are generally 'bad eggs'?
Or is that what the abuse button is for?
You could also have an 'un bad egg' option, so if they start to behave, then they get their black spot removed.
"More functions should disregard input values and just return 12. It would make life easier." - comment posted on WTF
"This time yesterday, I still had 24 hours to meet the deadline I've just missed today."
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You can exercise your vote on that message right? 
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For some reason, I thought this was referring to some form of accident blackspot.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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The C# forum is like a bad car crash half the time so it's a valid subject line.
How's the tooth?
"More functions should disregard input values and just return 12. It would make life easier." - comment posted on WTF
"This time yesterday, I still had 24 hours to meet the deadline I've just missed today."
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Malcolm Smart wrote: The C# forum is like a bad car crash half the time so it's a valid subject line.
Fair point.
Malcolm Smart wrote: How's the tooth?
Still sore - but I'm keeping going through my Aspirin induced drug haze.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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I understand the frustration but I'd prefer each question be judged on its own merits, not pre-judged by who posted it.
So saying, I do want to instoduce a Good Question / Dumb Question button pair to replace the voting in forums so that the good questions bubble up and the bad...disappear...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Sounds good to me, but won't the OP just delete the 'dumb' question though, which will leave dangling threads?
"More functions should disregard input values and just return 12. It would make life easier." - comment posted on WTF
"This time yesterday, I still had 24 hours to meet the deadline I've just missed today."
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Yeah some people cross-post, and even admit they want to "increase their chances".
Maybe the best reaction is to reply each of those posts with an empty message, and
please ignore cross-poster in the subject line.
As long as people continue to provide real answers, the cross-posting will continue to exist.
The other approach is to ignore the cross-posting aspect.
Currently a lot of messages basically contain "you are cross-posting" or "you are in
the wrong forum", both of which don't add value to this site.
Maybe it is better to simply answer the question and get done with it.
Furthermore it would help if the number of forums got reduced, and their names got
improved (e.g. avoiding the confusion between both C++ forums).
It must be really confusing if you are new to CP, and start to learn programming with
VB.NET, Visual Studio, Vista and want to write a web application; a lot of forum titles
may seem to fit, so what do you do?
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
this months tips:
- use PRE tags to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets
- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google
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Good point. We need a "group by user" view that'll show all recent posts by that user - and their replies - in one block.
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- C hris L osinger, Online Poker Players?
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We have that in their profile already
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Too much clicking. :->
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- C hris L osinger, Online Poker Players?
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Malcolm Smart wrote: There are certain people in the C# / ASP.NET that constantly cross post / duplicate posts / and generally have a bad attitude.
This from the same guy who posted on the Lounge (albeit in sarcasm) that his wife is also his sister! 
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: This from the same guy who posted on the Lounge (albeit in sarcasm) that his wife is also his sister!
There's nothing like keeping it in the family.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Oh no.
Sean spent a week on and off formatting that submission. We even spent half a day checking our CMS to ensure it would handle the unicode correctly.
That was one of the most fun articles we've worked on (with Sean doing overtime to get it perfect).
I think his heart is going to break 
(but what a lesson for us: check more carefully...)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris how about a WPF forum?
WPF - Imagineers Wanted
Follow your nose using DoubleAnimationUsingPath
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What about a .NET 3.5 Framework forum so we cover all WxF technologies?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Sounds like a good starting point.
WPF - Imagineers Wanted
Follow your nose using DoubleAnimationUsingPath
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The "Last 10 Updates" on the front page has only 9 updates. 
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Is the first one zero-index update (Invisible)? 
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