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Personally, i rather like the traditional minimalistic [RSS] links... but i do see the value in providing some information to those not familiar with the technique. Perhaps comments could be added to the XML feed, giving unwary readers a heads-up? Something like:
<!-- This is an RSS feed. While you *could* read it as-is, that's not much fun. Search around and find RSS reader software, then point it to this URL - enjoy! -->
Alternately, something like this:
RSS
...keeps it clean, while providing some more info to the uninitiated.
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Shog9 wrote:
Personally, i rather like the traditional minimalistic [RSS] links...
I must admit that it's for sure the best choice,
The help cursor is really cool!
Of course, the CP look must remain untouched so... I agree, a small simple implementation sample speaks more than words...
Here was the idea of my suggestion (apart that the RSS button was replaced with text because I was not able to use the <img> tag)
Last 10 updates (category: MFC / C++) RSS [What is this^]
and... on the left, under the "other stuff" menu pane (on the bottom of CP home page):
Thats all.
BTW: posting on CP is a nightmare... it takes a life time to do everything...
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Maybe I have not noticed where this feature is at, but it would be cool to click a button and have a list of all sponsors for the site. Today was yet another time that I noticed an ad just as I had clicked a button to go somewehre else. It is a pain to have to keep refreshing the page until you see the ad you want
So, my vote is for a sponsor section that list all sponsors and maybe thier graphic ad that you can find when you need it.
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humm, CP has thought of that too.
"When death smiles at you, only thing you can do is smile back at it" - Russel Crowe (Gladiator)
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A little bit of social engineering might be useful to get people to answer more questions in the programming forums:
If the stats of how many replies they made to posts in the programming questions forums were shown as prominently as their overall post count.
I.E. we would hopefully then see posts along the lines of "Wooohooo my 500th reply to a programming question" rather than "Woohoo my 5000th irrelevant post about nothing".
This way tirelessly supportive people like Heath in the C# forum would get their due recognition and it might give people a little incentive to answer questions which would re-enforce one of the pillars of CodeProject.
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Just saw that some forum systems do have the ability (for the admins, I guess) to write new threads that always appear at the top of a forum for announcments or other important things.
Maybe CP could have something like this too... (and maybe I should add it, since long time ago I wrote the original CP forum-code... )
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very good idea. i guess time to time annoucement from the cp should be conveyed to majority of the ppl as quickly as possible. I bet not many ppl knew that CP will be down for its server upgrades.
"When death smiles at you, only thing you can do is smile back at it" - Russel Crowe (Gladiator)
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While I'm not sure how the dynamic view feature for Mozilla is implemented I assume it to work for Safari, too. Ok, Safari ain't really the browser of choice for the intended audience, I'm currently forced to browse the web via MacOS X. And being a pedantic x-browser JS advocate (or something in this direction, greetings to irc://irc.efnet.net/#javascript), I'd like to see my favorite development site to do feature detection the right way, testing for feature support instead of browser version/name. This way, the site would support future browsers out-of-the box, too
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Or Should I say... Code Project On Delphi?
Would it be possible to add Delphi as a category?
Any issues?
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Great idea, Uwe! We can have a forum called "Lucy's Corner - The Doctor Is In - $.05"
Heard in Bullhead City - "You haven't lost your girl - you've just lost your turn..." [sigh] So true...
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Roger Wright wrote:
Great idea, Uwe! We can have a forum called "Lucy's Corner - The Doctor Is In - $.05"
We already do!![^]
And for those that need a little more help than what Lucy can provide, we have this[^].
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Is Codeproject cosidering to start a messenger service kinda thing.
There are times in the forum the person wants to clarify further on the answer he has recieved, Some times it takes days if not hours.
Last time I was sober, man I felt bad
Worst hangover that I ever had
It took six hamburgers and scotch all night
Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right.... Dire Straits
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I don't agree with this. It's entirely our own choices if we wish to continue a discussion.
Speaking for myself, I'll stop answering questions if I feel I've already spent enough time on the issue, if I can't think of a suitable response, if I think I've already provided a suitable response, or the original poster should be looking for other sources of information.
If the responder wishes to receive a message notifying a response, they can do so. CP's emailed notifications seem to be fairly reliable.
You have to allow for any time-zone differences between yourself and any other correspondents, time to research answers, and simply the times of day that people wish to browse CP.
CP does not (as far as I am aware) employ people to answer questions; the people who answer questions are simply other users of the site. Don't assume that any answers you receive are authoritative (unless you get really lucky and are answered by the author of a problematic component).
I could go meta at this point, and discuss why I answer questions at all, but this isn't the place.
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I agree with you.
Last time I was sober, man I felt bad
Worst hangover that I ever had
It took six hamburgers and scotch all night
Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right.... Dire Straits
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I agree completely. Posters (the code monkeys at least) need to do some work for themselves. I want to also decide when I stop trying to help and make them help themselves. I already have enough problems from people getting my email off the automatic replies and emailing me directly, even using that as my MSN Messenger account (being that it's my Passport).
I agree that Chris should not consider this at all. This is a forum - not a chat site.
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I am going to do a signal processing job to a sampled speech signal.
I have already done the sampling to a speech signal and got the sampled 60001 values.
The next step I am going to do is to normalise the sampled values,i.e.
set the maximum value to +1 and the minimum value to -1. By using the
function "wavread", the read in data has been put in the range of
[-1,+1]. According to what I have found, the maximum value of the
sampled 60001 values is 0.9920, while the minimum value is -1. So, my
algorithm is to divide all the +ve values with 0.9920. Is it correct?
I tried the following program:
m = max(sv); % sv is the array containing the sampled 60001 values
for k = 1:60001 % sv2 is another array I am going to store the
if sv(k)>0 % normalised values.
sv2(k) = sv(k)/m % if the element is +ve, divide it with m.
else
sv2(k) = sv(k) % if the element is 0 or +ve, keep it.
end
end
When running the above, I found that it ran very slowly and I can see
the data rolling on the screen of Command Window. Can anyone give me
some advice on how to do the loop with C/C++ but using the compiler of MATLAB?
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Wrong place to post his message.
Last time I was sober, man I felt bad
Worst hangover that I ever had
It took six hamburgers and scotch all night
Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right.... Dire Straits
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Have you ever thought about sending a link to the news letter instead of the full letter? It might save some server time, and save some of my e-mail box space . Maybe it could be done as an option?
Thanks for the site,
Jerry
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That way I might even be able to read the newsletter... I really don't know what I did to offend the hamsters...
Paul
van der walt is qualified to answer - googlism
modified 18-Jul-18 11:59am.
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I'm suggesting to create a forum for Borland C# Builder users.
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Would it be possible to start a new section to discuss and instruct on scripting? I'm currently doing quite a bit of ADSI scripting in VBScript and am converting some of it into ASP.Net. I know a lot of things can be done using the LDAP interface as well. I guess I'm looking for an area that discusses the strengths and weaknesses of both. When to use one vs. the other.
Thanks, Love your site.
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