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No, I've been travelling. As soon as my eyes are off the servers they go nuts.
I'm back in the office and am a mere 15 minute drive from being able to physically kick them. They should be much better now.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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It would be nice to have the ability to upload a translation of the source code and receive credit for it. Say you see an article in VB.NET, so you download it and convert it to C#, because you happen to use that. It would be nice to be able to upload it for others to use and receive credit for it.
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agreed. What you can do is post the ported code on the message board with an appropriate subject. Not ideal, but for articles that aren't generating a steady long term message stream it can work reasonably well.
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Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.
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Perhaps then linking to it in the original article... I like this idea.
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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I like it. Added to The List
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I assume the translation would have its own score for voting purposes? - for example, in case the translation was poor, you could vote 5 for the article, but 1 for the translation?
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I think it would be very cool if the CP home page had a "Goto Random Article" button. You click the button and are taken to some arbitrary article. It would be fun to use every now and then. I think that if you are on the "C#" homepage, then you should only be taken to articles in the C# category. Likewise for ASP.NET, or Architect, etc. If you're on the 'All Topics' homepage, then you can be taken to any article on CP.
What do you say?
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Josh Smith wrote: I think it would be very cool if the CP home page had a "Goto Random Article" button. You click the button and are taken to some arbitrary article. It would be fun to use every now and then. I think that if you are on the "C#" homepage, then you should only be taken to articles in the C# category. Likewise for ASP.NET, or Architect, etc. If you're on the 'All Topics' homepage, then you can be taken to any article on CP.
What do you say?
Doesn't Feature Article and Editors Pick meet your criteria?
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Michael P Butler wrote: Doesn't Feature Article and Editors Pick meet your criteria?
Sort of, but not completely. There are probably many great articles on CP that I'll never read just because I would never happen to find it. True, the Feature Article and Editors Pick help to shine light on the exceptional ones, but what about the rest? What about the not-so-excellent-but-still-interesting ones that will never be put in the spotlight? I'd like to have a fun way of randomly finding some of those articles.
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I think Feature Article actually is random.
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Michael Dunn wrote: I think Feature Article actually is random.
In that case, the code for randomly selecting an article is already in place. With the "Goto Random Article" button, that logic could be executed at will (instead of at a scheduled interval). That way I could skip around to many random articles in less than a minute, in case I'm not interested in the current Featured Article.
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Michael Dunn wrote: I think Feature Article actually is random.
It has a minimum rating-level I think. So it won't show a really cool article that may have been unfairly voted low.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: It has a minimum rating-level I think. So it won't show a really cool article that may have been unfairly voted low.
Like that ever happens... 
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Josh Smith wrote: "Goto Random Article" button
That is a cool idea. 
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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When a connection is slow and if we make a mistake of double pressing the button, CP shows a message "It looks like you have already posted ...". Good. But why is this message being dedicated to a separate page called 'failure.asp'. And necessitating one more button click to Forums page.
The appropriate forums page itself can have a small DIV on top and display this message right?
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It's easier that way.....
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: The appropriate forums page itself can have a small DIV on top and display this message right?
It could do. I don't think it is that important compared to other features that we'd like to see.
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When you click 'Messages Posted' or 'Articles Posted' from User's Profile page, you see a list of hyperlinks but each line states -- Authorname
Rather than this, we can have a caption "Articles Posted by Authorname" and just list all the articles. A similar trick can be cloned for messages also.
This way, for a long authorname, the number of times it repeats and swells the pagesize can be minimized.
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But since a person can change their display name, you would want to know which display name they posted the message as.
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The GetLink that exists for any message does a fullpage refresh. I don't think this is judicious use of server resources. I have two suggestions to this perspective:
1. We have the GetLink text to read as ClipLink and we can prompt for adding Favorites.
2. We can copy the link to Clipboard instead of URL Redirecting.
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: The GetLink that exists for any message does a fullpage refresh. I don't think this is judicious use of server resources.
Since, as far as I can see, it exists so that a person can right click it and copy the URL to the clipboard to be used elsewhere it doesn't matter the resources it uses if someone accidentally left-clicks on it.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: We have the GetLink text to read as ClipLink and we can prompt for adding Favorites.
I don't see what renaming it would do - and I never use the link in my favourites anyway - I don't know anyone that does, I don't think that's what it was created for.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: We can copy the link to Clipboard instead of URL Redirecting.
I already do. 
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It's not meant to be clicked, you right-click it and pick Copy to put the URL on the clipboard. It's like a PermaLink in blog terms.
The trouble with doing this automatically is two-fold
1. AFAIK only IE has built-in clipboard support
2. Clipboard access can be turned off, and in the default configuation, IE shows a scary warning message when the page tries to use the clipboard.
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[IE7, Vista]
Previewing a response to a post causes focus to be transfered to the parent window a couple of seconds after displaying the preview window. I can't tell you how annoying this is. OK, I can. OK, I just did. 
/ravi
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If only there was some way of previewing your post without opening a new window... 
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...on IE.
/ravi
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