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Since this is a CodeProject project, why not make it something directly related to CodeProject? (utilities for better communication between CPians, developer utilities/plugins for directly grabbing content from CodeProject, code/tools to enhance the usability of the site itself (per Chris' approval)).
Idea
A client program that monitors all new/updated posts, articles, etc. then lets you browse them at your leasure (without depending upon the cookie that gets confused as to whether you actually read something or not).
This same program would also have a CodeProject-specific chat client built-in.
It could also use a sophisticated article submission handler to ensure good formatting, and prevent some of the potential problems where web browsers lose data in the event of an error.
Etc.
John
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John Fisher wrote:
A client program that monitors all new/updated posts, articles, etc. then lets you browse them at your leasure (without depending upon the cookie that gets confused as to whether you actually read something or not).
Well, there's the new RSS feed plus some existing (OK, using cookies I guess), message monitors.
John Fisher wrote:
This same program would also have a CodeProject-specific chat client built-in.
On the humorous side, I already spend too much time reading the messages and replying to them. I'd NEVER get anything done with a live chat system. Plus I guess a lot of people already use existing chat technologies.
John Fisher wrote:
It could also use a sophisticated article submission handler to ensure good formatting
I typically write everything in FrontPage and do the final touch up in the editor that CP already has, which is really cool. That way, I don't mind if the browser crashes.
Hope you don't mind the feedback--it would be interesting to further develop these ideas so we're not duplicating existing work.
Marc
Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"
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Thanks for the comments. I was basically throwing out ideas to spur thought, with the goal of a single app (or very closely related group of apps) that would be CP specific. Right now, we can do most of these things, but they're disjointed and not all of them are as powerful as they could be with an locally hosted application (client).
If anyone has other ideas for adding to this "suite" concept, just think along the lines of what everyone likes to already do at CP, but make it easier.
John
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What about a defect-tracker that have both a web-frontend and a winforms frontend.
Or........
With all that talk about source-version-systems (SourceSafe vs. CVS) what about writing one, that is easy to use, easy integration into VS...
Basically SourceSafe without the bugs in that product...
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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I am all for this one.
Paul Watson wrote:
"At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall."
George Carlin wrote:
"Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
If the physicists find a universal theory describing the laws of universe, I'm sure the a**hole constant will be an integral part of that theory.
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I don't know about YOUR software, but MY software doesn't have defects!
Just kidding.
I was perusing the web a few months ago and found some online defect tracking software, some of it was free, some of it had a trial period, etc. Some of them looked pretty cool.
Marc
Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"
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Marc Clifton wrote:
I don't know about YOUR software, but MY software doesn't have defects!
Same here, but I have heard that some people actually need a system like that 
Marc Clifton wrote:
was perusing the web a few months ago and found some online defect tracking software
I have tried to find something that I can run on my own server, using ASP/ASP.NET and an Access DB or a SQL-Server, but those I found costs a LOT more than I can afford for my free-time projects...
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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Ok... 1 think I always find myself doing when I'm talking to fellow CPians [via IM] is using things like :<d>zzz<d>: and :<d>rolleyes<d>:.
Why not make an Instant Messenging system... we could use the SIP and/or Jabber protocols so it could interoperate with MSN, AIM, ICQ and so on. It's not a massive project and not too difficult, it'll be good to get to know the others in the group and it's something we could all use on future projects to aid in our communication and so on.
As well as being able to communicate with MSN and so on [SIP is great  ] and having all the CP emoticons [very important] it could conenct to the CP rss feed and pull information from the web services here on CP [along with other webservices/rss feeds]. Integrated colloberation tools for CPP and so on
Just a thought.
Regards,
Brian Dela 
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But there's already hundreds (almost  ) of those out there.
Why not make something we need and could use to make our day_to_day life easier?
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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Let's make an effort to take those wonderful ideas and tutorials posted on CodeProject and make Universal Gui LibrarY (UGLY) . Take those owner-drawn buttons and transparent labels and custom scroll-bars and sliders and make a whole suite of tools for windows programming.
We would want to provide:
Consistent interface across controls (function calls, data types, iterators)
Maximum flexibility (skinning, derivable classes)
Maximum efficiency (speedy, powerful, easy to use)
Cross platform availability (.NET, MFC, Win32)
please add more.
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WE need to do this simply in order to use the acronym. I love it
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Good idea! My second favorite besides a book. But I wouldn't be the one do the MFC controls.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." - Jesus
"An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi
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Important idea. But you might want to help out with that.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." - Jesus
"An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi
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Much better acronym.
-Sean
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Shag a Lizard
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Ok, so I tried far too hard for that! And don't ask what Brian has to do with it... 
I'm sorry. 
David Wulff
"Without hopes and dreams we're directionless" - Anna
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Don't have to ask what Brian has to do with it. It is obvious he is the BUTT of the joke.
:;
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UGL (Universal Gui Library)
[EDIT: Oops! I just saw that there already are one Graphics Library named UGL http://www.gaeinc.com/ugl.pdf [^] ]
/EDIT]
Better name I think. UGLY is a little too suggestive. Just imagine working in that project and thinking UGLY, UGLY the whole day and dreaming the whole night...
And, impossible to search on Google with all those other "ugly" things ..
For example 269.000 hits on "UGLY graphics"
jhaga
CodeProject House, Paul Watson wrote:
...and the roar of John Simmons own personal Nascar in the garage. Meg flitting about taking photos.Chris having an heated arguement with Colin Davies and .S.Rod. over egian values. Nish manically typing *censur*. Duncan racing around after his pet *c.* Michael Martin and Bryce loudly yelling *c.* C.G. having a fit as Roger Wright loads up *c.* . Anna waving her *c.* and Deb scoffing chocolates in the corner.
...Good heavens!
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Well, to be honest, with the number of people getting involved here things could get UGLY really fast. I don't know if that is a good thing. 
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I was just thinking the same thing. Maybe we can break it up into a group of subprojects? Also, we may see the sourceforge effect where there is a flurry of activity with new projects and it seems to taper off fairly quickly.
Hey don't worry, I can handle it. I took something. I can see things no one else can see. Why are you dressed like that?
- Jack Burton
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This is almost guaranteed. Plenty of members never post an article or on a message board. But they participate in the community in their own way. Most of them won't respond to this idea, but some will.
Once things get started people will drop off before it really begins. Then as time goes on they will thin out for one reason or another. The key is to get a good project leader that can own the project and keep it on track.
Keep the core group of people that have physical control over code to a minimum. One person that updates it. Many that contribute via comments, submitting code etc.
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Perhaps we'll let the team leader decide how to handle team members.
I also see us splitting the volunteers between maybe 3 projects. Obviously not everyone can work on the best.
Jason Henderson My articles
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
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Splitting up the volunteers would mean that we lose some of the momentum that we now have. I would rather finish off one project and first then start a new project?
If we split up, nowbody will then be interested in what we do, compared to now when everybody wants to know what is happening.
If we have only one project we can also discuss it in the lounge and it might be fun, but with many projects going on, the discussion would be more boring, I think, because you dont know what the others are talking about.
jhaga
CodeProject House, Paul Watson wrote:
...and the roar of John Simmons own personal Nascar in the garage. Meg flitting about taking photos.Chris having an heated arguement with Colin Davies and .S.Rod. over egian values. Nish manically typing *censur*. Duncan racing around after his pet *c.* Michael Martin and Bryce loudly yelling *c.* C.G. having a fit as Roger Wright loads up *c.* . Anna waving her *c.* and Deb scoffing chocolates in the corner.
...Good heavens!
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That's a good consideration. We'll probably end up starting with the GUI Library, as it's hands down the most popular.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." - Jesus
"An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi
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