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Yes, that would be an improvement. This could be for instance nice if you have a very large article that you could divide into section and have an introduction and a table of content on the root page. But it is not really a need though.
On the other hand, I don't think it will be possible to host generated documentation this way. Anyway, what I did is that I simply attached a zip file containing the generated documentation along my article.
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Chris, I just got one of those empty forum pages at http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/View.aspx?fid=1649&fr=26#xx0xx[^]
I was reading, not writing or editing, several messages on page 1; when I reached the bottom I clicked
"next" and got an empty page (i.e. normal forum page however with zero messages); footer says Web12.
Not sure how I can help by providing more, looking at something in particular, ... I do have a screen shot, if you want it ask for +CodeProject_C_Discussion_Boards_Free_source_code_and_programming_help_Mozilla_Firefox_20090312_031833.jpg
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I'm seeing it again, too, usually after I edit a post.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 ----- "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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I've managed to replicate it but not repeatidly or consistently. I'm having another crack at tracking it down now.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris, I just had a new experience: in VB forum, in a thread at the bottom of a page, I added my reply and when I clicked "post message", the forum page came back, but my reply was not on it, it was now the first message on the next page. That is not ideal but it struck me as I do not recall having had that happen to me ever before. Since it might be related to the empty forum phenomenon I thought I'd report it.
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I've just uploaded the new code so let's keep our fingers crossed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: let's keep our fingers crossed
Not sure how long you can do that.
The good thing is I am now capable of sending myself an e-mail reply. I wouldn't mind you providing some insight in what went wrong before... always eager to learn.
Thanks.
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I just experienced a similar thing. I edited one of my posts and all I can see is a lounge without any messages. I was on page 9 and certainly it was not the last page. I could see only the 1st page with all the messages. None of the later pages were showing messages.
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How many messages per page do you have set?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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25...I have the screen shot if that is of any help. I could not find where to put that though
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No need - I just experienced the issue myself and have narrowed it down a little.
Thanks!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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The homepage right now contains an article-needing-approval[^] dated 12-MAR, while it still is 11-MAR overhere for the next 15 minutes. Wasn't the idea to always show datetime local to the viewer?
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what's your timezone? Are you in or out of daylight savings? (You can set this in your profile)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I'm in Antwerp, Belgium, that's GMT+1
My CP settings currently are GMT+1 and "Are you currently in Daylight Saving Time?" unchecked.
Don't know how to interpret that, I would hope it works automatically, Windows knows we haven't switched to "summer time" yet. Are you saying I should change the setting twice a year?
ADDED: message changed at 1:02 local time to watch how it gets timestamped.
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modified on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 8:02 PM
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Windows knows on your machine, but I can't ask your machine to tell my servers whether you're in daylight savings.
There are databases that kinda sorta vaguely give me an idea based on your IP, but they are never up to date. So I have to just resort to the old fashioned way of actually asking you.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hi Chris,
I now checked the daylight savings box (it does not look right, Daylight Savings Time is summer time isn't it, we are still in winter time, will switch end of March).
I logged off from CP, rebooted, logged on, hit CTRL/F5 no change.
It is now 0:55 here, first article-needing-approval still says 12-MAR, same as 1 hour ago.
I can live with it though.
FWIW: am running Vista, FF3, your browser check gives:
Gecko True
IE False
Opera False
WebKit False
Browser MOZILLA
Type Gecko1.9.0.7
Standard True
Display Mode Normal
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Version 1.9
Major Version 1
Minor Version 0.9
Web 2.0 Enabled True
Mobile Device False
Cookies OK? True
Server Web16
Country Belgium
PS: trying with messages to see how it works.
young messages get displayed relative to now (1 min ago, ...)
after 5 minutes message modifications result in a timestamp (see above message), unfortunately it is using Toronto time (as in modified on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 8:02 PM) for a change I applied Thursday morning at 1:02
I could call that a bug an inconsistency feature.
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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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I was in the process of posting a new thread in the NHibernate forums, and noticed that when you create a new thread, the Message Body is pre-filled in with a list of "Where you should go get help first, before posting a new thread" type of remarks.
I thought that was rather genius, and considered that perhaps you could do something similar for lounge posts. When a new lounge post is created, the message body would start off with the text:
DO NOT POST PROGRAMMING QUESTIONS IN THE LOUNGE!
You can go here, or here or here ....blaa blaa blaa
The person would have to actually select and delete that text out of the message, in order to start with a clean post.
Just a thought.
[edit]
Take this a step further, since it's typically newbies posting programming questions in the lounge, and only pre-populate the message body if the user is a bronze member (or whatever they are these days).
-or-
if the subject contains the word PLZ ...
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Before you added your addenda I was going to say "...but then you know what all the messags in the forums will start with..."
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Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: .but then you know what all the messages in the forums will start with...
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Chris - the voting for the article "A beginner’s guide for consuming a WCF service in JavaScript using ASP.NET AJAX" in the C# articles looks highly suspicious. I can't believe that so many people would vote for this so quickly over Sacha's articles. I know you can track things via IP address - can you check the voting on this?
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If someone at a large company posts an article and everyone in their company votes for it, is that bad? (eg someone at IBM or Wal-mart) or is it legitimate support by ones co-workers?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I have to say, that I do actually get a few votes from people at work. But you know they benefit from my artcicles, so I think that is ok for them to vote. If they are actually work collegues.
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- Microsoft Visual C# MVP 2008/2009
- Codeproject MVP 2008/2009
Your best friend is you.
I'm my best friend too. We share the same views, and hardly ever argue
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If everybody in a company votes for it, it's fine - if it's shill accounts set up then that's not fine.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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If they've read/used the material in the article and are casting legitimate votes yes. If they're just doing a mass shill vote and don't know anything about the article's context no. Unfortunately I've no good idea how to tell those two cases apart. Shill voting would exhibit a single visit pattern, but if most of the legit coworker votes are coming from non CP people that would look the same.
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So if i have a large block of ips, i can signup with a lot of new accounts and go vote for myself?
Plus another reason this needs to be fixed is some businesses have multiple people working behind one ip. So because there company is effecient with ips they are not allowed to vote?
I think adding a box of why you think the article is better than the rest when you vote will solve alot of it. I dont think someone would be willing to type "i am the greatest" many different ways. Plus you could have a min characters allowed on the box.
Other things you should calculate in is looking at how many views the actual article receives and how many forum interest it has and how many actual votes it has.
You could also limit to 5 votes a day from a block of ips. This would help for example because if you have 25 people vote for you in two minutes from a company at 1:00 am in the morning within 2 mins time frame, highly unlikely you have that much pull over your fellow employees, but if you did it would make it where they had to vote over multiple days.
As of my article being included in the contest, i really dont care if i win, so you can take it down if you want. Plus i dont think being a fellow past associate is fair to be entered into a public contest.
I write articles for the purpose of making people interested about programming. I could care less about money or prizes, this is just a hobby to me, where i can use my brain.
Anyways i got to get back to having fun now, making things.
Latez
KISS "Keep It Simple, Stupid"
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