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I think the rating system is a little um "over-rated".
A good article sticks out a mile, with or without a good rating. I'd much rather authors listened to the written feedback given rather than relying on the numbers system. How many of those 1s given are where somebody thought 1 was the top mark and 5 was the low mark?
Constructive written feedback is the only true way to help an author judge the quality of their work. The more written comments there are will also help readers to judge how good an article is.
We need to try and find a way to encourage discussion on the article rather than using a numbered voting system. After all, I don't do a code-review and give my work-mate a 1 or a 5, I tell him where he is wrong or what bits of code I like.
Michael
CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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Just kind of came to my mind as a time saver...
Provide a button on the message preview window that allows you to post right after previewing.
George Carlin wrote:
"Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
If the physicists find a universal theory describing the laws of universe, I'm sure the a**hole constant will be an integral part of that theory.
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The preview window opens up in a new window, so putting a button over there will not really save anytime.
You can click on post message button without dismissing the preview window and latter close the preview window at your own leasure time.
Plus think in this way,
Chris has to probably add more code to do that work which we can easily do and in the process make the CP slower than before.
-prakash
-- modified at 22:53 Monday 17th October, 2005
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i've seen today and the days before that when i received an answer to a post, i did not get the notifying mail all the time...
i think this problem is related to the ones you're trying to fix up, but i'd like to notify you with this explicitely...
cheers,
TOXCCT >>> GEII power [toxcct][VisualCalc]
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For some time now I have noticed that this site seems to be exceptionaly slow at times. Take now for example Sunday afternoon (UK time) it is probably not very heavily loaded and yet clicking on any article will probably not result in it being loaded in under 15 minutes (thats right - minutes !). The page almost always comes through in the end but why the huge delay ?
The behaviour does not appear to be browser dependent - I have tried Opera 8.5, Firefox 1.05, IE7.
It also does not seem to be ISP specific as I have connected from a number of different ISPs with the same result.
Can this problem be sorted, because the site is practically unusable at the moment.
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We have high load times (especially in the morning, US time, but 15 mins on a Sunday afternoon seems strange. Our scripts would have timed out long before 15 mins, so all I can suggest is there's a network issue somewhere between us and you. Try doing a tracert to www.codeproject.com and let me know what you see.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Tried between 16:00 and 16:30 to get this page
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/soviet_protector.asp[^]
and also the forums page without success. During this time ping -t never failed and the tracerout is as follows
Tracing route to www.codeproject.com [209.171.52.99]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 21 ms 18 ms 30 ms 10.232.***.***
2 41 ms 21 ms 20 ms 10.232.***.***
3 16 ms 49 ms 40 ms nrth-t2cam1-a-ge-wan34-102.inet.ntl.com [213.104
.142.9]
4 43 ms 27 ms 45 ms nrth-t2core-a-ge-wan61.inet.ntl.com [213.106.255
.37]
5 66 ms 48 ms 52 ms nth-bb-a-so-230-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.109]
6 45 ms 64 ms 81 ms nth-bb-b-ae0-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.118]
7 30 ms 20 ms 26 ms pop-bb-a-so-100-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.14]
8 34 ms 43 ms 37 ms 195.50.91.69
9 42 ms 49 ms 26 ms ge-0-3-0-0.bbr2.london1.level3.net [4.68.128.125
]
10 124 ms 123 ms 101 ms as-0-0.bbr1.newyork1.level3.net [4.68.128.106]
11 98 ms 85 ms 106 ms ge-5-0-0-52.gar2.newyork1.level3.net [4.68.97.35
]
12 102 ms 85 ms 115 ms telus.gar2.level3.net [4.78.174.2]
13 157 ms 107 ms 138 ms nycmny83gr01.bb.telus.com [154.11.11.130]
14 140 ms 129 ms 125 ms toroonxnbr00.bb.telus.com [204.225.245.5]
15 101 ms 119 ms 128 ms toroonxngr00.bb.telus.com [154.11.11.54]
16 141 ms 127 ms 131 ms eyrkonaedr04.bb.telus.com [154.11.6.89]
17 128 ms 128 ms 124 ms 207.219.30.97
18 129 ms 106 ms 112 ms 207.219.30.13
19 221 ms 189 ms 203 ms 209.171.52.66
20 176 ms 198 ms 229 ms www.codeproject.com [209.171.52.99]
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Tried between 16:00 and 16:30 BST to get this page
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/soviet_protector.asp[^]
and also the forums page without success. Have now been trying to post this page for 30 minutes
During this time ping -t never failed and the tracerout is as follows
Tracing route to www.codeproject.com [209.171.52.99]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 21 ms 18 ms 30 ms 10.232.***.***
2 41 ms 21 ms 20 ms 10.232.***.***
3 16 ms 49 ms 40 ms nrth-t2cam1-a-ge-wan34-102.inet.ntl.com [213.104
.142.9]
4 43 ms 27 ms 45 ms nrth-t2core-a-ge-wan61.inet.ntl.com [213.106.255
.37]
5 66 ms 48 ms 52 ms nth-bb-a-so-230-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.109]
6 45 ms 64 ms 81 ms nth-bb-b-ae0-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.118]
7 30 ms 20 ms 26 ms pop-bb-a-so-100-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.14]
8 34 ms 43 ms 37 ms 195.50.91.69
9 42 ms 49 ms 26 ms ge-0-3-0-0.bbr2.london1.level3.net [4.68.128.125
]
10 124 ms 123 ms 101 ms as-0-0.bbr1.newyork1.level3.net [4.68.128.106]
11 98 ms 85 ms 106 ms ge-5-0-0-52.gar2.newyork1.level3.net [4.68.97.35
]
12 102 ms 85 ms 115 ms telus.gar2.level3.net [4.78.174.2]
13 157 ms 107 ms 138 ms nycmny83gr01.bb.telus.com [154.11.11.130]
14 140 ms 129 ms 125 ms toroonxnbr00.bb.telus.com [204.225.245.5]
15 101 ms 119 ms 128 ms toroonxngr00.bb.telus.com [154.11.11.54]
16 141 ms 127 ms 131 ms eyrkonaedr04.bb.telus.com [154.11.6.89]
17 128 ms 128 ms 124 ms 207.219.30.97
18 129 ms 106 ms 112 ms 207.219.30.13
19 221 ms 189 ms 203 ms 209.171.52.66
20 176 ms 198 ms 229 ms www.codeproject.com [209.171.52.99]
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Not sure if this has been asked before. How about a knowledge base that has some really vanilla type explanations. For example "How to Connect to a database with ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, or, how to consume a web service using ASP.NET, C# Windows App etc.
Nino
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Why dont you create an article based on these basic questions, There are many of them related to VC++.
-prakash
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I almost missed this interesting article[^] because it was listed under C# cross-platform programming, and I filter articles to see only C++ ones.
Would it make sense to have a separate C++ cross-platform forum? Or at least pull the cross-platform programming out of C# section?
My programming blahblahblah blog. If you ever find anything useful here, please let me know to remove it.
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the chat room should b classified in languages like vb,.net etc and user's should be classified in Questioner and Solvers or ineed help and helper
---this would be more helpfulland more over it should be a one on one chat!
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Forums are better so that the question and solution are helpfull to others too.
Like me, i just read the posts and learn.
and remember, ppl who help others via CP forums are not getting paided to offer 1-2-1 help so they wont be online for you to help you on need basis and if they do on other messengers like yahoo, msn, etc, you have to be very polite in asking for their time to help you.
-prakash
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Hello guys,
I was wondering if it would not be better , that after modifying the post the yellow "new" icon appeared below it or the subject text would be changed for example , to smth like this "MFC question... [ modified ]",because I can never guess that somebody has modified the post until I view it.
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - W.Churchill
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I like the idea.
I try and modify the subject of the post manually, but I often forget.
Michael
CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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Giorgi Moniava wrote: to smth like this "MFC question... [ modified ]",
or a new "updated" icon just like in the newsletter...
TOXCCT >>> GEII power [toxcct][VisualCalc]
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Yep , I thought about it also.But then thought the forums would become very colourful with green(updated) and yellow(new) icons.
But I think the best solution would be a updated icon as you stated but with yellow background , similar to the new icons background just with the text changed to updated.
And also there would be one little detail . If the message was just posted and hence had the new icon , then after modifying it I think it would be more correct if the modified icon appeared next to the new icon, instead of changing the new text to modified.
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - W.Churchill
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Hello,
I don't know about anybody else, but I'm getting a little rattled because of the <pre> and <code> formatting tags. When those tags are used, the leading spaces and tabs are removed, as well as any newlines between code lines.
IMHO it's better to let the leading spaces and tabs stay as well as the newlines. This makes the code look more like in the editor and reads more easy.
Behind every great black man...
... is the police. - Conspiracy brother
Blog[^]
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For me, I only use <code> with inline stuff this . I use <pre> for all else, and to keep the blank lines intact, just insert a space.
"One must learn from the bite of the fire to leave it alone." - Native American Proverb
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Ah I see. It still removes the newlines if you don't insert spaces. Thanks for the information.
Behind every great black man...
... is the police. - Conspiracy brother
Blog[^]
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Are there any plans to allow a person to recast his or her vote? I just voted somebody a 5 when I wanted to vote them a one and it is so annoying me.
"If only one person knows the truth, it is still the truth." - Mahatma Gandhi Web - Blog - RSS - Math
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
Are there any plans to allow a person to recast his or her vote? I just voted somebody a 5 when I wanted to vote them a one and it is so annoying me.
yeah, Chris has that in the TODO list (i guess) for a long long time now but meanwhile you need to improve your hand-eye co-ordination.
-prakash
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I'm curious to know why the curse filtering does not replace those bad words with their equivalent case replacement. For example, I had typed the F-word as a joking reply to someone with a capital F and it replaced it with f***. I was wondering since my sentence began with F*** and grammer was on my mind.
"If only one person knows the truth, it is still the truth." - Mahatma Gandhi Web - Blog - RSS - Math
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You coulld type in F * * * yourself as a workaround.
E.g.
F***ing crazy!
Hope this helps
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That's f***ing obvious, so I guess the answer to my original question is because it wasn't f***ing designed to.
"If only one person knows the truth, it is still the truth." - Mahatma Gandhi Web - Blog - RSS - Math
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