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How about a section on the front page that lists Helpful articles found on other sites, like MSDN. Articles like Working with Multiple Forms in Visual Basic .NET: Upgrading to .NET[^], and Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability[^] could be added to the list by selected CodeProject people (we don't want spammers adding stuff, do we?), like CP-Supporters and CP-Protectors. We could include a short description of the article and maybe a rating for it. This list could rotate through the links just like the Featured articles list or the Featured Products list.
We don't have to put it on the front page. Maybe each forum section could have it own list of articles.
This might help stem the tide of the most repeated questions we get from the "inexperienced" developers.
RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
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We have to decide what we want CodeProject to be - a central repository or a directory. I vote for the former.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
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Chris Maunder wrote:
a central repository or a directory. I vote for the former.
I agree with that - but why can't a central repository also have a list of web resources? I think this would be especially valuable in the context of CodeProject, if CPians could vote on the quality of the link - like is done right now with articles and comments.
I have seen many such lists on the web, but I have no way of judging (other than by personal experience) whether a linked site is any good. Getting CPians to vote for the good ones would be tremendously useful and timesaving.
You could set it up as a separate topic, with web sites nominated by email - the site url + brief description. Then people could vote on it.
Please consider this.
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I was about to suggest a monthly programming contest...then I realized there already was one. DOH! 
Still coaxing software out of the can after all these years...
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In forums 2.0
cheers,
Chris Maunder
Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
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Managed VC++ will do for that.
I'll write a suicide note on a hundred dollar bill - Dire Straits
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Yes but, for those of us who'd like to code with C# & directX wouldn't that be strange to ask C# related questions in a C++ section?
Regards,
ElDrago.
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There is a C# section too.
I'll write a suicide note on a hundred dollar bill - Dire Straits
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It would be fun to see how we are distributed by interests - how many C++ programmers, VB hackers, Webmasters, Scriptkiddies, etc.
Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.
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Why not look at preferences for beer temperature ?
Regardz
Colin J Davies
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Because some of us do not drink ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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Roger Allen wrote:
If you vote me down, my score will only get lower
Right on.
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Did you ever finish your beer chiller project?
Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.
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In addition it would be fun to see a "demographics of article authors", optionally filtered by section/language.
About 70% of the registered users are from US or have not changed their settings, but whenever I read an interesting article and view the author's profile, he is from china, france or whereever.
This might be because a majority of the registered users are not active at all, they just register in order to download zip files. Filtering the demographics for "silver status and above", "users with at least five messages posted" or "at least one article posted" would give as more realistic overview about the "real CPians" 
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Corinna John wrote:
whenever I read an interesting article and view the author's profile, he is from china, france or whereever.
Maybe we here in the US just write boring articles.
More filtering options would certainly be welcome, though.
Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.
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This suggestion is a follow-up to this thread[^] in the Lounge.
While it is up to the individual whether they vote or not and whether they comment on an article or not, I would like to make a suggestion to encourage voters to comment.
Some people may not wish to make public comments on an article, but if the author hasn't posted a message on the forum belonging to the article there seems to be no way for the reader to email the author easily. I would like there to be a link at the bottom of the article to permit the reader to email the author (using the same posting mechanism that the email reply to a forum message has) rather than post a message in the forum.
Secondly, the voting buttons could have a little bit of text encouraging a comment to be left. Something like "Many authors appreciate feedback as to why you voted the way you did."
It will still be up to the voter whether they leave feedback or not, but a little encouragement might help improve the quality of the articles by those who genuinely want to write great articles and will appreciate and respond to the comments.
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Some good ideas there Colin. Or, when you vote, it pops up a comment dialog. If no text is entered, then no comment is added to the article.
The only draw back of this is of course that people who are voting could be identified if they did not want to be.
If you vote me down, my score will only get lower
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When I typed wrong password, the CP asks me to enter the email address again. Why is that?
You know that I entered wrong password then why you force the user to enter the email address again, that too in the small area. 
If the email address is valid but password is wrong then make the user to re-enter the password only.
If both email address and password are wrong then it makes sense to force the user to enter both.
Promise only what you can do. And then deliver more than what you promised.
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No i disagree with you, simple rule is that if you know the login/password enter it right the first time....
This is one way to discorage hackers... but ofcource good hackers will use other methods.
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It's kind of nice to know that of all the things that you think can be improved on CodeProject, that is your most pressing issue. I'm immensely flattered
cheers,
Chris Maunder
Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
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Chris Maunder wrote:
that is your most pressing issue. I'm immensely flattered
Man, you hit me at right spot. 
Actually at home I always login at CP with "Remember Me" option, but at work I login when I need to check something and log out. (don't ask why ) At work I have to remember atleast 10 different userid/passwords combinations for the application, so sometimes I enter wrong password for CP. So I posted my earlier message from work, after I tried all the passwords and nothing didn't work. Atlast I remembered the password and I immediately posted the earlier without giving a thought for a second. 
I apologize if my earier message reached you in different way.
Back to regular programming.
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