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That would make CodeProject lose their honor of free service because they would be selling their content at the end of the year, which can be read freely. This is one of the reasons I despise one service, SSWUG, they ask for a membership, but they are on the right path because they also pay their authors so asking for payments is not a bad thing.
The way I may have put it, would be to allow the articles of a category to be downloaded (no payments). The way CodeProject already has a "framework"-based learning portal. For example, for Android: Learn Android - CodeProject[^]. CodeProject can generate a link to create the PDF for the available content, like the best articles.
But putting a cost would be a bad UX for CodeProject and I am sure CodeProject won't like that to happen.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Plus SSL improves Google search results ranking (AFAIK).
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Just waiting for some backend updates and then we can do this. It's on our radar too.
[Update: Load balancer issues are the only thing stopping us at this point. We may need to switch to more powerful boxes to handle the load]
cheers
Chris Maunder
modified 7-Mar-16 10:02am.
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Maybe you're already working on it: Though SSL is enabled, some resources are still loaded via an http:// URL which is why FireFox shows a warning on the SSL-symbol.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Is done.
Was way, way more painful than it should have been.
We're still watching the servers and appliances to ensure the load is fine.
Next comes the wonders that is SEO. Google? Can you still see us?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I already posted about it here: Bugs and Suggestions - CodeProject[^]
I run now again into the problem and can show it with an example. The problem occurs when there is a hash character at the begin of line followed immediately by a non-space character.
As shown in the editor. Preview is OK (similar without the pre tags):
<pre lang="text"># Download or copy source package to a build folder
#wget ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/tiff-4.0.6.tar.gz
tar xzf tiff-4.0.6.tar.gz
cd tiff-4.0.6
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install</pre>
Finally shown after posting:
# Download or copy source package to a build folder
<h1>wget <a href="ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/tiff-4.0.6.tar.gz">ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/tiff-4.0.6.tar.gz</a></h1>
tar xzf tiff-4.0.6.tar.gz
cd tiff-4.0.6
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
The problem can be solved by inserting a space after the hash character.
Note: Markdown is disabled.
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Jochen Arndt wrote: Note: Markdown is disabled.
Only in the forums. I don't think there's an option to disable it in QA (yet).
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Seems like there's an error where Markdown processing is inconsistent. It's on my TODO.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Yesterday, I stopped getting emails for replies - but still did for newsletters and suchlike - and assumed it was a minor hiccup.
But still none today, so I checked my settings and the "Send me an e-mail if someone replies to the message" had become unchecked. I haven't visited "My Settings" in months! 
I've re-enabled it, and we'll see if that fixes it - it may be a "soft error" or similar but if you get many people with the same it may be worth a look.
[edit]Yes - that fixed it[/edit]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
modified 29-Jan-16 5:29am.
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I confirm I had to re-enable this feature too, without having modified it myself in the first place.
I never finish anyth
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Well, it fixed the problem - I got an email for that one.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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We had an issue probably over a year ago where user settings (such as "email me notifications" were getting corrupted occasionally but it's been a long time since we've seen that. Thanks for letting us know - we'll keep an eye on it.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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At present, questions can be asked without any content. For instance I created a question (and deleted it). With nothing but < b > tags in body. Would it be better if validation would fail in this case?
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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d@nish wrote: With nothing but < b > tags in body.
So you did provide a question body - just not a useful one! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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That's why we allow people to close questions.
But yes: more automated checks are needed. It's just not always easy to provide a once-size-fits-all.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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In the page How do I solve this codility problem!!![^], I wrote a comment to solution 3, then I decided to add some extra information.
Multiple editor were opened at different place in comments above (like 4 editors) all with my current comment and I modify one of those without really paying attention to that and then my comment was a few comment above under another user name and my original comment was unchanged.
For sure, I tried to edit my comment as the code in the editor was exactly my comment. I click on the link to modify my comment again and there I can confirm that multiple editor were opened.
So for sure, something went wrong with comments on code project. I don't know if there is a log in Code project on edition that were done as it might maybe help confirm the strange behavior.
Philippe Mori
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This actually sounds like a Javascript issue, given that the comment editor is instantiated via Javascript (not server side) calls.
Which browser/version? Do you have ad blockers or other add-ins enabled?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Probably Safari on iPad. It seems to be specific for some comments. Maybe because some comment in that solution were deleted.
The same issue occurs also with Edge browser. If a edit comment, in that solution, a bunch of editors are opened.
Same thing with Internet Explorer 11. Same thing with Google Chrome 48.
The problem really seems to be specific to some cases. In fact, it seems that the problem only occurs if I try to edit either a deleted comment or a comment after the deleted comment whatever the level.
If we don't pay attention because other editor are below in the page, we can easily overwrite the wrong comment even from someone else...
I just tried it again with 4 different browser and get the problem in each one. Try to edit any comment in Solution 3 from the first deleted comment and you should see the editor opened once for every comment starting at the deleted one until the last comment in that answer.
I tried to find other questions with deleted comments (except last one on an answer) but it does not happen very often so at this point I was only able to reproduce the problem in that answer.
Philippe Mori
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Audio Player[^]
No reason to close it. If you close this you have to close any article related on this and that Driver.... e.g a MP3 Encoder, for which usually no source is available.
Only my mind.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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IF you see an article that has a DLL and no source then report it and we'll review it.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Ok, I will inform you, but I will never "report" them.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Create a new QA Answer.
Enter code:
string source = @"D:\New";
string other = @"D:\New\XY\y";
string diff = other.Replace(source, "").TrimStart('\\');
And enclose it in a code block.
It displays as:
string source = @"D:\New";
string other = @"D:\New\XY\y";
string diff = other.Replace(source, "").TrimStart('\');One of the back slashes has disapeared in the trim character.
If you edit it, add a space between them:
string source = @"D:\New";
string other = @"D:\New\XY\y";
string diff = other.Replace(source, "").TrimStart('\ \');
Then edit it again, and remove the space:
string source = @"D:\New";
string other = @"D:\New\XY\y";
string diff = other.Replace(source, "").TrimStart('\\');
It works fine...
At all stages, the preview shows you exactly what you have typed, but the actual posted answer may be different.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Another one.
When using the hash character as first one after a pre tag, there must be a space or line feed inserted. Otherwise it will miss the hash in the final post but not in the preview.
This will show up without the hash character in QA (here in the forum it is OK):
<pre>#define SOME_DEF 0</pre>
define SOME_DEF 0
This will be OK.
<pre>
#define SOME_DEF 0</pre>
#define SOME_DEF 0
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When you respond to messages in forums you can uncheck the "Use Markdown formatting" checkbox at the bottom.
I don't know if it's global and affects also Q&A (where I haven't seen any such checkbox), but it's worth trying.
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