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What sort of things would you like to see in the FAQ?
cheers,
Chris Maunder (CodeProject)
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I would guess that it should be more of a 'usage guideline' than an FAQ. I see it as a way of informing new members that some posts are unacceptable in the lounge
Such as:-
- Overtly religious or political
- Programming related (in that they would be better suited in one of the forums)
- Pointless (such as 'hey is anyone else there?')
etc
I don't know if anyone else agrees with me but over the last few weeks/months there have been an ever-increasing number of visitors to the lounge and the increase in traffic is going to cause an increase in inappropriate posts.
BTW, Winamp.com has a feature similar to this in their forums
James Spibey
I love the word naked, it's brilliant isn't it, 'naked'. When I was a kid I used to write the word naked on a bit of paper hundreds of times and rub my face in it - Jeff, Coupling, BBC2
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okely dokely - I'll see what I can rustle up.
cheers,
Chris Maunder (CodeProject)
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CP is great for articles and tutorials. You can go from MFC zero to MFC hero in the span of just one article and while this is great what I would like to see is a Code Snippet repository.
I know that every coder has his collection of useful functions, loops, SQL statements, testing code, XSL transforms, batch files, HTML blocks and sample XML data. Every time I do an ASP application I have my trusty browserdet.asp file waiting to test which browser the client is using. Or the FRK function which convienently strips and replaces quotes with usable quotes so that I can update a SQL field. The list goes on and on. The list also took a good few years to build up and much tweaking, replacing and creating to make it robust enough for every application.
What I propose would be a code gallery or repository for all the major sections with just a simple paragraph of explanation for each code snippet and then the code in a downloadable file. There would be no articles or tutorials and the downloadable code snippet would be good to go without any pasting together or reformatting. Coders looking for help in creating their useful code collection would then just need to download what they needed.
I know I could contribute tons of useful functions to the ASP, HTML, VBScript and JavaScript sections.
Just an idea 
Yes I realise that I could simply re-purpose an article but it would not be an ideal solution and also people looking for code snippets probably would not look at articles or tutorials.
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
"The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge
"In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001
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Send me a database schema you think would be suitable, some ideas for layout (list of snippets, display of snippets), searching method and a method to ensure that it's easy for people to submit stuff while at the same time ensuring there is some editing done to keep things neat and clean then definitely!
Hmm - I wonder if there's anyone <looks in Paul's direction> who is good at <another look in Paul's direction> ASP and SQL <a really long, hard look in Paul's direction>?
cheers,
Chris Maunder (CodeProject)
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Me and my big mouth... 
Ok I never said I was good at ASP or SQL. Just that I could do it... j/k
I will think something up this week and send it through. Hey do you reckon a .NET web service interface will help?  Might be nice to integrate with Visual Studio, but one step at a time, tiny glasshopper...
*wanders off in a daze of thinking*
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
"The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge
"In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001
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>Hmm - I wonder if there's anyone... good at... ASP and SQL...
*AHEM*
There might even be more than one goof around here that fits that description. In fact, there might even be a goof around here that meets that description and has been wondering what he could do to help out around here since he barely knows what MFC stands for.
<Waggles eyebrows meaningfully>
If you want a hand with that Paul, let me know. I would be happy to help.
So, how many snippets will I have to post to get to "Irridium" member status?
Jason Jystad
Cito Technologies
www.citotech.net
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"Luckily," he went on, "you have come to exactly the right place with your interesting problem, for there is no such word as 'impossible' in my dictionary. In fact," he added, brandishing the abused book, "everything between 'herring' and 'marmalade' seems to be missing."
-- Dirk Gently (Douglas Adams)
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If you're *really* keen talk to Paul and maybe you guys can come up with something wild. That would be way cool.
cheers,
Chris Maunder (CodeProject)
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So Paul,
Would you like some help with this? I consider myself quite good with web applications, and I have been wanting to help out around here but I have not had any good article ideas and I don't do C++ (well, yet anyway).
I would be delighted to help any way you wanted. Heck, if I had the money to visit SA I would even buy the beer. Maybe sometime.
If you want to virtually smack our heads together on this, let me know!
(It's a good idea, I wish I'd thought of it  )
Jason Jystad
Cito Technologies
www.citotech.net
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"Luckily," he went on, "you have come to exactly the right place with your interesting problem, for there is no such word as 'impossible' in my dictionary. In fact," he added, brandishing the abused book, "everything between 'herring' and 'marmalade' seems to be missing."
-- Dirk Gently (Douglas Adams)
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I don't do C++ (well, yet anyway).
I don't do C++ either and I don't plan to, not my kind of language at all. Chris is going to throw me off CP again for saying that 
I would be delighted to help any way you wanted. Heck, if I had the money to visit SA I would even buy the beer. Maybe sometime.
If you want to virtually smack our heads together on this, let me know!
Sure thats a great idea and thanks for the offer of help.
Right now I am just putting together some ideas and a brief example of a Code Snippet library. I think Chris wants that and then if the implementation is worthwhile then we would go ahead with developing it "properly" and fitting it into CP.
I thought it would be *fun* to do it using ASP.NET (C# as the language), good learning project, are you interested in .NET? Naturally I am using VS.NET Beta 2, not up to hand coding it thanks
Send me an email with any ideas and then we can sync up and go wild
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
"The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge
"In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001
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I don't do C++ either and I don't plan to, not my kind of language at all...
Yeah, I go back and forth on C++. (Get it, Forth?  Sorry, that was un-intentional, really!)
I would like to be able to do some "serious" development but I am an old Pascal guy and C makes me kinda woogy. (who is gonna get kicked off now? )
I am actually thinking about Delphi/Kylix so I can do cross-platform RAD development in Pascal. Some of the things MicroSoft are doing at the moment are making me queasy and I am getting nervous about being tied to them as tightly as I am right now. I like their stuff, but I think I may want to have other options.
Right now all I do is ASP (using vbscript), PHP (hey that's not MicroSoft!), JavaScript, HTML, and some tSQL.
I thought it would be *fun* to do it using ASP.NET (C# as the language), good learning project, are you interested in .NET? Naturally I am using VS.NET Beta 2...
You seem to have a perverted definition of "fun".
I would totally be up for doing it in .net. I have not even touched any of the .net stuff so the spin up would probably be fairly sharp for me, but I do want to learn it so I would be game. C# would be my choice also, if I am gonna learn .net I'd like to add another language to my skill set.
Send me an email with any ideas and then we can sync up and go wild
I will go and look at the code libraries I use and try and figure out what I like and what I hate. I will make some lists of ideas both positive and negative. I will shoot you an e-mail later tonight or tomorrow with my ideas.
In the mean time, why don't you give me a high level overview of your thoughts so far? It was your idea originally, after all.
What about the environment we would be coding to? Can we use Stored Procedures if we want to? What do we have available on the CP servers?
Jason Jystad
Cito Technologies
www.citotech.net
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Is there anyway that I can see which of my posts have been marked as Helpful?
Michael
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Yes, Chris, I want to Know the same
Cheers...
Carlos Antollini.
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sounds good!
nice suggestion...
I second that one..
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Is it possible to get a list of all the people who have rated an artical, and what marks they have given it?
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 - no, I don't think I'll be doing that
cheers,
Chris Maunder (CodeProject)
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This is a bad, bad idea. How would you like it if you rated someone poor, because their article sucked, so they went and did the same to every article of yours ?
Christian
After all, there's nothing wrong with an elite as long as I'm allowed to be part of it!! - Mike Burston Oct 23, 2001
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or they find out your home address and visit you with a baseball bat
I am with Christian on this one. Blind voting only!
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
"The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge
"In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001
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How about eliminating the rating altogether?
"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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Hmm, in hindsight thats probably the right answer.
Its just being such a nice person, I never even thought of abusing the system like that.;P
Well I didn't, Really!
Roger Allen the man
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or maybe came round and smacked you in the mouth. Oh, hang on though, we programmers are mars bar eating desk potatoes, so not much risk of that is there, sorry.
We do it for the joy of seeing the users struggle.
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new link for all logged in users under the options settings which would list all articles submitted by the user - something like "My Articles (2)"?
Just a thought....
Jignesh
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Collapsable threads so you could look at the threads and if you wanted to read that thread you could expand it so you didn't have to go through tons of pages to find a thread.
-Matt Newman
-Matt Newman
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You mean something like the 'ThreadView' option currently available?
cheers,
Chris Maunder (CodeProject)
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