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I was wondering if it is allowed to ask for donations on articles I have written. I read the terms of service and didn't see any guidelines about that. In the light of the current worldwide financial crisis, I think some of us independent consultants might be able to use the occasional donation. Thanks for a wonderful site.
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This idea has been kicked around before. The problem is that it will give the site a completely different feel. Have you ever visited one of the other donation-ware sites? They're really obnoxious. IMHO.
However, if you really wanted to try this approach, I suggest that you write an article here (it would have to include full source code, of course), and then point people to your own site, where they can get additional stuff. No one would have a problem with that.
Another option: CodeProject has just started a 'Catalog' section (it's on the green menu bar above). You can post a product there for free.
I didn't vote your post a 1, and I suppose it's just someone else's way of saying they disagree, without having to tell you why. I think your suggestion is a valid one, and you should receive some comments, instead of just a vote.
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Through this site I don't think Chris would go for it and personally I don't like the idea, but a link in your article to your own site where you can accept donations I would think would be OK.
Chris checks here regualarly, but this might be better discussed off site - perhaps send him an email?
DaveBTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)
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The others have pretty much summed up my feelings too, but I'd add that asking for donations won't work. If the rationale is 'times are tough - it would help developers' then you also have to consider that in tough times the first thing that suffers are charities and donations.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I have tried for more than hour now, no wood
I can't get past first step. And error I get is like Microsoft's information messages that give no information .., haha
"There was a problem creating your article."
Well, I have tried everything I could at this point. Only thin I recall that happened was that this morning when I was trying to post article, I got disconnected while I was at step 4. After that I am just stuck at step1 for ever. I have tried dozen different article names, descriptions... nothing seems to work.
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Sorry about that - it should be good now.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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ByteBlocks wrote: I have tried for more than hour now, no wood
My Mrs complains too!
DaveBTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)
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cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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always returns the "print" version of the CP article page. Why?
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My standard search[^] has the non-print version of my grid control appearing.
Who knows. Maybe Google secretely has gnomes printing everything out and transcribing it into the GoogleMachines by hand.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I would expect the print version to contain less ballast (navigation, formatting, ads, ...), hence probably get a better relevance score than the non-print one. And one of them to be filtered out because it is very similar to the other.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
- 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
- use the code block button (PRE tags) to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets
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There's a couple of things that could actually account for it:
1. Less balast. SQL server ranks relevancy based on keyword density. The more times a keyword appears per X number of words, the more relevant it is. Removing the nav bars in the print version makes the keywords in an article stand out more
2. Search engines used to rank material higher if the relevant parts of the page appeared closer to the beginning of the page. Nav bars and stuff would add initial fluff which would lower the ranking of that page.
I'm not convinced #2 is still in effect, though. It's just too artificial and prone to poor results.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thanks.
IMO growing importance of CSS/JavaScript also should undermine #2
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
- 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
- use the code block button (PRE tags) to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets
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I've used emoticon recently, but either my memory is failing me, or you've remove the sheep icon.
I've tried
:sheep:
:baa:
:baaa: <--- this is the one my memory told me.
:baaaa:
:baaaaa:
:baaaaaa:
:baaaaaaa:
And none work!
I am now in a huge panic, and can't post anything without obsessing over sheepses.
Your's with a huge void in his emoticon repertoire,
Iain.
Codeproject MVP for C++, I can't believe it's for my lounge posts...
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Forgot the exclamation mark! I knew it was something...
As far as I know, these are left as easter eggs for the (dedicated | people with too much time) to find out.
Thanks for fixing this uber bug! (ok, it was me...)
Iain.
In the process of moving to Sweden for love (awwww).
If you're in Scandinavia and want an MVP on the payroll (or happy with a remote worker), give me a job!
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Well done. I'm not even going to ask how you got all those.
But you know I'm just going to have to add more now
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: I'm just going to have to add more now
You could ask Dalek Dave to encrypt them a little...
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
- 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
- use the code block button (PRE tags) to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets
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Luc Pattyn wrote: You could ask Dalek Dave to encrypt them a little
That could be fun - a sort of smiley hunt based on cryptic clues!
DaveBTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)
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Hi,
Maybe what I'm suggesting can already be done, but I just have not been able to find out how. If so, sorry - but maybe then the suggestion would be to make the subscription process more obvious. Clicking the Set Options button at the top of the replies just takes me to the top of the article, which seems a bit odd...
As an example: I would like to subscribe to the responses to Leslie Sanford's C# MIDI Toolkit, so that I get all new messages sent to me (as if I was getting a reply to something I posted there).
Great work you guys do!
all the best,
James Ingram
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This has been on our TODO forever. The issue is the number of emails that would need to be generated could quickly overwhelm our servers.
I want it though. I'll try and bump it up in the priority queue.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thanks for the reply, and for bumping it. It would be very useful.
all the best,
James
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It is possible that some articles may not display properly on mobile devices, because of the formatting or images they use.
In these cases, it should be possible for an author/editor to mark the article as may not view properly on mobile device. The viewer could then be asked, Do you want to download the article files?, without having to view the article.
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What if I allowed members to edit anyone's article, and once an edit was done the member could then accept or reject the edit. If they don't respond within X days (30, 60, 360?) then it gets opened up to the community on whether the update should be accepted.
That way if something doesn't render on mobile then we can have the community take a stab at creating a version that does.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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