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He used to, but he started getting a bit of a potty mouth so he's not allowed to do that anymore.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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On the front page, the "Latest Best Picks" section isn't very helpful. It is almost always full of articles with one vote of 5 -- dare I suggest the author's own vote?
Could that (and the Top Rated Articles section) impose a minimum number of votes before an article was shown in those lists?
An article that has received 10 votes and has a score of 4.9 is probably going to be a lot more interesting than an article with a single vote of 5.
Thanks,
Phillip
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A man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions
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The reason I do this is because if there's a minimum number of votes before an article gets up there, then it's harder for an article to make it up there. I was working on the principle that if it's not worth the single '5' then it will quickly disappear to be replaced by a more worthy article, but if it is worth the 5 it will get into that list faster.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Yep, I second Chris's way of handling it. Otherwise the top-5 list will remain static as it'd be very hard for a new article to catch up with an article that has say 4.8 from 15 votes.
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This is caused by our caching. I'll force a re-cache for articles with new votes
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I was in the process of going "Grr, I've pasted in a URL, and it's not auto linked, I have to press the link^ button", when I discovered that pressing the link button replaced my URL with the name of the article.
While it would be even nicer if the autolink functionality comes back (I know there's a thread about this elsewhere), I'm a happy bunny about the article-text-in-link functionality!
Imagine a small tail wagging furiously.
If you're going to implement all my suggestions, I'd better not suggest changing the colour scheme to yellow on purple...
Iain.
(ps, FF 3.08 if that makes any difference)
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!
modified on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 7:27 AM
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I'm on 3.0.8 as well and the autolink is working nicely[^] for me[^]
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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It's working for me now...
There was a noticable delay between the link showing in the post body, and it getting transformed. Maybe I just started editing previously in that delay and confused things.
OK, I'll ungrudgingly let you have my compliments!
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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The delay is due to the Ajax (actually, Sjax, but, well, without the X) call to get the title from the URL.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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My blog's feed[^] is currently served up by FeedBurner and provides categories in the following format:
<entry ...>
<id>...</id>
<category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="CodeProject" />
...
I believe this is an Atom format, so I'm guessing the absence of any blog articles for my feed indicates that this isn't a supported format yet. Is this right?
Cheers,
Derek.
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Yes that's correct. We weren't sure that there would be much demand for formats other than RSS (Atom, OPML) so we chose not support as it would've meant more development time and testing  . So.. we'll consider it if the demand is there.
Maybe you can ask FeedBurner to generate RSS rather than Atom? Or in addition to your existing feed at another URL?
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OK, thanks for confirming that. From what I can see, if I specify "?alt=rss" at the end of the source feed in FeedBurner and turn off SmartFeed it will produce an RSS format feed. I'll wait and see if CP picks up any articles now.
NOTE: The "?alt=rss" will only work if your feed is provided by blogger.
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Great! Looks like it worked.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?>
<rss xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Bob on Medical Device Software</title>
<link>http:
<description>Software Development and Biomedical Engineering</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
<generator>http:
<language>en</language>
<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
<atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/BobOnMedicalDeviceSoftware" type="application/rss+xml" />
<item>
<title>Software Verification vs. Validation</title>
<link>http:
<comments>http:
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
<category><![CDATA[FDA]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[Software Quality]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[verification vs. validation]]></category>
<guid isPermaLink="false">http:
<description><![CDATA[For some reason it just really bugs me that these two terms are incorrectly interchanged so frequently.
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Have you tried Derek's trick? Also be sure to have "codeproject" in <category> element(s).
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Now using http://rdn-consulting.com/blog/feed?alt=rss[^] and turned off SmartFeed, but it looks like the generated XML is still ATOM.
One of my posts does have:
<category><![CDATA[CodeProject]]></category>
How will I know if the changes I made work with the CP aggregator?
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I am not sure when it happened, but since afternoon I noticed that the voting distribution does not show up for articles. Is this a known bug?
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Missing for me too. Tis a shame.
Was nice to know if an average of 3 was because everyone thought an article was mediocre, or becuase it was very polarising. Like ![Good Stuff | [The good stuff]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/vegemite.gif) .
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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Before you even ask: it's back.
Just testing and will do an update during the quiet time this afternoon.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: Before you even ask: it's back.
Only on some articles, Chris. For example : this one[^] does not show the voting distribution.
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It's back. Once I upload the new code.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Ah okay, thank you 
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When I reply to a Lounge thread, I get an error saying the post could not be inserted. Then if I refresh the Lounge I do see my post there. A few seconds later, if I refresh again my post has vanished.
Is anyone else experiencing anything similar?
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