Bugs and Suggestions

Re: Emails from CP [modified]

16-Apr-08 7:05

Nothing in your spam folders? Is Outlook being a pain?

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Douglas Troy16-Apr-08 7:47

Douglas Troy

16-Apr-08 7:47

Ok, I received a notification Email that you replied to this ... so maybe it's ~~not~~ now working.

[update]

Apparently it's not; I don't know what's going on, but I'm not getting Emails from CP when using the EMail link.

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modified on Thursday, April 17, 2008 2:03 PM

unable to sign in to site

ivan_andreyev15-Apr-08 6:25

ivan_andreyev

15-Apr-08 6:25

Can't use my codeproject account, member id 5025916
To post this message here i use another one.
I've submitted an article using blocked account and now unable to edit it.

My guess is that when i updated details in my profile it was saved without logon e-mail - site says that user info is not found when i use "sign in" or "forgot password", however i can see my account information here http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/Profiles.aspx?mid=5025916

I've already sent a couple emails to address from FAQ with no reply.
I would appreciate if somebody fixed my account or linked my article to the one i am posting with.

edit: Re: unable to sign in to site

Bert delaVega15-Apr-08 6:38

Bert delaVega

15-Apr-08 6:38

I just realized I was in the suggestions forum and not the lounge. Woops. D'Oh! | :doh:

Sorry. GLTY.

Chris Maunder15-Apr-08 14:20

15-Apr-08 14:20

Please let me know what the article is and what the account was. I will look into this.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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ivan_andreyev15-Apr-08 21:32

ivan_andreyev

15-Apr-08 21:32

My profile is here http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/Profiles.aspx?mid=5025916[^]
Link to article http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/MemberArticles.aspx?amid=5025916[^]

If my guess is true - when i updated details profile was saved without logon e-mail and for this reason i can't use it.

ivan_andreyev16-Apr-08 19:25

ivan_andreyev

16-Apr-08 19:25

Chris, did I miss something that is needed to fix my account ?
Thanks for your attention to this.

Chris Maunder18-Apr-08 4:18

C# Algorithms @ java.codeproject.com

18-Apr-08 4:18

Should be fixed now

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Mladen Janković15-Apr-08 2:52

Mladen Janković

15-Apr-08 2:52

There's a subsection named 'C# Algorithms - Sorting' in Java Algorithms and Recipes section[^].
Is this on purpose, to annoy Java guys, or just overuse of copy-paste? Smile | :)

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Re: C# Algorithms @ java.codeproject.com

Chris Maunder15-Apr-08 4:32

Message board links on Lamp

15-Apr-08 4:32

Fixed

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phannon⁸⁶14-Apr-08 23:14

phannon⁸⁶

14-Apr-08 23:14

A number of the links to message boards are invalid, pretty sure its because of the subdomain lamp in the url, i.e.

http://lamp.codeproject.com/script/Forums/View.aspx?fid=2605[^]

Doesn't work, brings up an XML parsing error, but removing the subdomain from the link causes the correct page to load.

That is all Smile | :)

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Re: Message board links on Lamp

Chris Maunder15-Apr-08 14:20

Article download not available

15-Apr-08 14:20

We had a server error - should be good now.

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Chris Maunder

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Broken Bokken14-Apr-08 6:00

14-Apr-08 6:00

I'm not sure if this is by design or a bug, but I posted an article - http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/microsoftreporting.aspx[^] and my zip file that I uploaded causes a default server error (it does not display the friendly CP error)

Also, and I assume this is a bug, if I try to delete a file, I get a page not found (friendly) error.

Is the download not available because it is a new article?

Thanks

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Chris Maunder14-Apr-08 6:07

14-Apr-08 6:07

The download is working fine here. Can you please retry?

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Broken Bokken14-Apr-08 6:11

14-Apr-08 6:11

When I click it, IE opens a new window to http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/microsoftreporting/MSReportingTest.zip[^] and shows the error page.

It could be the office filter. Every page has a javascript error on it and your ads are blank.

I tried another project and it wouldn't download there either. It must be the filter, which is weird
because it used to let me download. If it's working for you, that's good enough for me.

Thanks Chris.

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Chris Maunder14-Apr-08 10:57

14-Apr-08 10:57

Could you please do 2 favours for me:

1. Do a 'View Source' of an article for me and email me what you see to chris at codeproject dot com.
2. Disable javascript in your browser and then try downloading

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Broken Bokken15-Apr-08 2:25

15-Apr-08 2:25

I sent you the source. I turned off javascript and the JS error went away, but I still cannot download. I no longer suspect it is the websense filter, because usually I get a websense page telling me I cannot do what I was trying to do if it is blocked. In this case I am not seeing a websense filter. Here what the JS error looks like:

Line: 2
Char: 7
Error: Invalid Character
Code: 0
URL: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Ann/ServeThirdParty.aspx?p=150x80&attrs=&r=6472344

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Chris Maunder18-Apr-08 4:25

18-Apr-08 4:25

The ad system and downloading are separate so an error in one should not affect the other. Also, downloading doesn't use javascript at all

Are you using a download manager or web accelerator?

cheers,
Chris Maunder

CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

Broken Bokken22-Apr-08 3:26

Article Voting Suggestion

22-Apr-08 3:26

The office uses Websense as a filter, but I am not using any other applications to download the project. When I left click the download link, it sends me to the zip and shows the standard "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage."

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#realJSOP14-Apr-08 4:44

#realJSOP

14-Apr-08 4:44

Is it possible to display when an article was last voted on, as well as what that vote was? In the last 48 hours, someone has one'd some of my articles, and I have no way of knowing which ones they were. I have a feeling Gaylord is at work again, but there's no way to check.

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Chris Maunder14-Apr-08 6:08

14-Apr-08 6:08

I'm not sure how that would help apart from feeding some of your fury. I'm going to make some more changes to our vote tracking but I can't see anything specific from the initial check I did

cheers,
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#realJSOP14-Apr-08 6:20

#realJSOP

14-Apr-08 6:20

Well, beyond the univoter problem, there really is no way to see what article vote affected your average. I spent 20 minutes gong through all of my articles to see if I could determine that on my own, and I couldn't. Just an indication as to the date/time the last voted occurred be great.

As far as the univoter thing keeping track of who votes what and where would go a long way to being able to track the trouble-makers and take appropriate action. I think we exchanged some rather lengthy messages regarding possible resolutions to this problem a year or so back.

Chris Maunder14-Apr-08 11:00

14-Apr-08 11:00

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
keeping track of who votes what and where

We do.

The problem is one of perception. Someone gets downvoted and they think it's one guy. There are 3 million people each month coming through, reading articles, reading the lounge, voting. The scope for you to really offend a new or established member each month and have them downvote you is enormous.

We can't stop someone legitimately deciding the want to downvote you. We can see patterns and take action against that person, but what's most needed here is a way to either encourage useful votes, or discard spurious votes.

One thing I have thought about is displaying only the 95th percentile of votes but this is dangerous at early voting stages: voting then gets heavily swayed by whoever votes earliest.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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Pete O'Hanlon14-Apr-08 11:41

Pete O'Hanlon

14-Apr-08 11:41

If the votes are a problem, then why keep them? As a radical thought (not), a simple "Is this useful (yes or no)" may suffice. If you offered an option to say "this article/item is exceptional" then you can keep the good articles at the top of the pile.

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