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Hans Dietrich wrote: Any CP member can then request admin@CP to transfer article ownership to him.
Are you serious? How can someone take ownership without permission of owner? Don't we call that stealing?
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head. (Charles M Strauss)
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Mladen Jankovic wrote: Are you serious? How can someone take ownership without permission of owner? Don't we call that stealing?
As I said in my post, "if OA no longer wants to support article, he can email admin@CP". In other words, the OA must initiate this, so no, it's not stealing, it's the OA handing over his article to someone else. Please read my post again.
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I think the "owner wannabe" can still answer queries at the article discussion board, without being the actual author of the article, because the article is the hard work of the actual author. Just my thought.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero
.·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·.
Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP
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You're right, and you can see a lot of examples of that happening. But in terms of collecting together bug fixes, or extending the article's code, there is really no substitute for being able to upload a new zip file to the article's page, especially if you had someone who was enthusiastic about supporting the code.
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I agree with you. In that case, probably the CP admin could into that matter and make the enthusiastic person as a co-author, without transferring the actual ownership of the published material.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero
.·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·.
Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP
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You know, until you mentioned it, I had forgotten about the new "co-author" feature. Maybe that would work. Thanks!
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Why not leave the original article in place, but have a process whereby an enthusiast can take over a 'new edition' which acknowledges the original author (and links to the original). The enthusiast could request this and if not vetoed by the original author then it would proceed - the original article would have a clear link at the top to the newer maintained version that would collect votes and feedback separately.
Peter
"Until the invention of the computer, the machine gun was the device that enabled humans to make the most mistakes in the smallest amount of time."
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i can't bookmark after submitting an article, please help me.
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Don't download it, make it.
Visual Basic /C#
modified on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 9:41 PM
modified 13-Feb-19 21:02pm.
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Fixing it now
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Found it, fixing it.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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When I click edit i do not get my previous text. Is it just my computer? I am using firefox and cphog.
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Probably related to the next post...
Looks, like cphog is causing this.
modified on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 5:59 PM
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Turn off CPHog and see
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Yes, without CPHog, I do see my previous text when I edit. Thanks and sorry for the bogus problem request.
John
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Just now, in SB, I wanted to add to one of my comments. I clicked modify, typed in my added text, and hit 'post'. Next thing, only the new text was present in my comment.
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If you click the link or link[^] buttons with no text selected it attempts to post your message.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop.
-- Matthew Faithfull
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You've got Javascript disabled?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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nope. The JS used to autoinsert clickies around a URL pasted into the text box works perfectly, the link buttons are still triggering the navigate away from this page warning.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop.
-- Matthew Faithfull
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Browser / Version / Add-ins?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Home machine is:
FF 2.0.0.12
Adblock Pro 0.7.5.3
ABP is innocent though, the same happened with it disabled.
My work machine is FF2.* with ABP and a PDF addin of some sort. Can check exact specs tomorrow.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop.
-- Matthew Faithfull
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Hi from the "paradise" of Lanna (that's northern Thailand),
I'd like to give a few personal opinions on the current style and format of the "Daily News" from CodeProject. But I'd like to emphasize that I am devoted enthusiast for CodeProject, and it's the only site where I often click-through on ads just to express my support for CP and its unique group of participans and dedicated staff.
1. for me "Daily News" is too often with too low content to ad ratio.
2. vendors' ads which don't name the vendor and/or product(s) are ones I am not motivated to click on no matter what the ad says.
3. the constant addition of slightly satirical (or facetious or ironic or whatever) subtitles to the brief blurbs on the actual content for me becomes tiresome. For me few are actually funny, and they are distracting. I feel like that space they take up could be used to say more about what the linked content is actually about.
Some of the content titles ... as well as the comments ... are, for me, actually cryptic : I don't have time to go to Easter Island let alone on easter-egg hunts
I'd much prefer a CodeProject weekly news, with vendor names and products clearly identified. More information about what the linked content is, and maybe just a smidgen of the hip-ironic asides when the editor just has to let it out
best, Bill Woodruff
dotScience
"The greater the social and cultural distances between people, the more magical the light that can spring from their contact." Milan Kundera in Testaments Trahis
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Thanks for the comments Bill.
1. I'm not sure making the daily news less frequent than, say, once a day really makes sense. What about a weekly digest of it?
2. It's funny but until you mentioned this I never even thought about that. Advertising is a tricky thing to get right and what we keep telling our advertisers is "Our guys are smart and have no time for crap. Tell them what you have to offer, explain why it may be important to them, and avoid the marketing gump and hyperbole". Marketing often are so focussed on new, subtle features of their latest release that they often forget to mention the product itself. And in fact fail to mention their company, too! I've sent our adOps guys a request that they work with advertisers to make things even clearer
3. We like Kent's style because a) it makes you think, b) he's often saying what many of us think, and c) he worked at Microsoft for many years and has a unique perspective on our industry. Kent understands (well, has been a witness to) the decision processes inside Microsoft and also understands the constraints and limitations the developers are under that shape the way things turn out. He's cynical, yes, but he, like us, is cynical because he loves this industry and has been around long enough to sometimes be frustrated by seemingly bizarre actions that go on in this industry. He's cynical because he cares.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hi Chris,
Thanks for your thoughful reply.
For me a "weekly digest" would be ideal, but this is a community, and many folks may like a daily fix.
In re-reading my original post, I found myself wishing I had said to the editor (who I now know is Kent) that the selection of articles he or she chooses is spot-on, and often interesting.
Every time I look in the mirror I see a cynic , and also other frightening things I won't mention, but which do provide fuel for my quondam career as poet and novelist. And after twenty years in the software business, and my own "fifteen minutes of fame" at Adobe, I have seen it all, also.
I think if the summary of what the linked article is about is a little more full, and the ironic asides a little less frequent that would be better reading for me. Or if Kent might choose to publish a weekly piece in which he more fully shoots his flaming arrows of pathos, bathos, irony, sarcasm, facetiousness, etc. into un-missable lumbering elephantine targets like Ballmer, Jobs, the intoxicated ravings of the promoters of the "next great thing," etc., for me that might be very interesting !
That would be [valley-speak] like so really cool [/valley-speak].
Again a huge thank you to you, and Kent, and all the other CodeProject folks, that make this the undisputed (and still heavy-weight) champion "mother of all .NET sites."
And, believe me, Kent and Chris, I do realize I am one small atom in the matrix of this fine community, and these are just my personal opines.
best, Bill
"Given the choice between two evils, I'd pick the one I hadn't tried before." Mae West
"The greater the social and cultural distances between people, the more magical the light that can spring from their contact." Milan Kundera in Testaments Trahis
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