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Elina Blank wrote: There is no score for the members
I was thinking there was some kind of score that lead to the selection of 40 MVP,
based on votes they collected in the forums; and it lead to the order of the awards as
published initially in the 31-Dec-2008 newsletter (Christian, Pete, Colin, etc).
The Hall of Fame at some point did show the happy few in that order; and it has shown them
in memberID order before that (which does not make much sense to me); and it currently
shows them in an order I don't understand.
Regards,
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
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modified on Thursday, January 17, 2008 9:12:44 AM
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Luc Pattyn wrote: but may stimulate a low-alphabet name bias in future
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
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BTW, escape codes come at the far end of the alphabet... 
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
This month's tips:
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- the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get;
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Oh, in fact I like to be a little apart.
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
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You're doing great so far. 
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
This month's tips:
- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google;
- the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get;
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I was just curious in knowing how long or what is the process after we submit a topic for Survey along with a few options and description.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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Survey suggestions go into a queue and I tend to pick and choose them based on current relevancy, how well I think they'll be accepted by the community, whether we've already had it recently (we do re-run surveys if times have changed) and whether the survey is something that can be summarised in a few options with little chance of me geting lots of "but the survey doesn't make sense because of [insert essay]" emails.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I just observed that forumid is being unnecessarily passed for even lounge. Lounge has its own ASPX name (perhaps URLRewriting trick) and hence I feel fid=1159 might not be required.
Perhaps we can save a little URL Space, which can be used for other information too. Also passing an Int in QuerySTring and then encountering junk data might lead to unnecessary exception handling leading to overburdening the server.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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I think we've already discussed this.
a) It works the opposite to what you think,
b) Is it really important enough an issue to make a post about?
Sorry - but due to there being only 24hrs in a days we have to focus on those things that are important to the operation of the site
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: we've already discussed this
The topic was partially covered for Search keywords being in Classic CodeProject.
Chris Maunder wrote: really important
Though not acutely significant, I only felt that a little of minimizing the surface area that is exposed to the world which opens up avenues for exception handling (like Int being used, we need to handle 'Input string was not in the correct format') and exceptions are a little heavy for the Worker Process.
Perhaps, a little step towards easing the already heavily loaded webserver.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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An int being a load on the servers when we allow free HTML input? An int doesn't even make the servers blink. Vasudevan, you have odd ideas sometimes but please keep them coming
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: An int doesn't even make the servers blink
Nope. I didn't mean that way. In the rare occasion of a malformed URL Querystring, the key might not contain a numeric but an alphanumeric type. In that, Int32.Parse might throw up an exception. I was actually intending to highlight that issue.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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Chris Maunder wrote: Vasudevan, you have odd ideas sometimes
"sometimes", Chris? 
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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Hi Vasudevan!
There is a TryParse function that does not throw an exception
The following will throw an exception:
int i = int.Parse("VDK is the king of web testing");
The following will not:
int i;
if (int.TryParse("VDK is the king of web testing", out i))
{
}
Exceptions thrown for invalid data (non normal course of processing) should not be that big cause of concern
You have, what I would term, a very formal turn of phrase not seen in these isles since the old King passed from this world to the next. martin_hughes on VDK
modified on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:44:49 AM
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There was a recent discussion on 'Sydney GetTogether' and Vikram had also reminded the participants to get photographs and share across the same.
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/View.aspx?fid=1159&msg=2391395[^]
I just thought CP can extend the 'Get To Gether/Events' forum by also narrating the various events that are organized within the context of CP itself. The earlier chennai CP meet photos are currently stored in Flickr and other third party.
Within CP, we can have a section like 'CPian Meet/Events' and we can have them organized from within.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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We already have The Scrapbook[^]
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris I've been being auto logged out periodically all day. Is this a session expiry tming change, I've been intermittent today, or a bug resurfaced?
Nothing is exactly what it seems but everything with seems can be unpicked.
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We had a bit of old code sneak temporarily back into the code base but that's all been hunted down and exorcised. We updated the site a few times today so that may have been the cause.
Is it still happening? Any pattern you can see?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Has been fine so far today. It didn't seem to happen while I was posting or browsing but everytime I did some 'real' work and let up on CP for a few tens of minutes I would come back to find myself logged off, hence my thought of a session timeout somewhere. I'll post again if it reoccurs assuming for now that it was just the updates to blame. Thanks for your continued sterling work.
Nothing is exactly what it seems but everything with seems can be unpicked.
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If appending the string "Device drivers" to "Hardware" forum, maybe there would be more driver programmers knowing the right place to discuss.
Maxwell Chen
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Why not!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Thanks!
Maxwell Chen
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I was just wondering if there is any possibility of (and interest in) having a PowerShell section on the Code Project. There's so much .Net goodness that you can do with PowerShell. I have found that PowerShell resources are very spread out and sometimes hard to find. It would be great to bring some of the community here.
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bc
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Why not?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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