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I was helping out a colleague in his survey application to make one of a friendly data entry field using a simple JavaScript slider. Actually, we used (Tigra slider) one as a starting point, which is really impressive:
http://www.softcomplex.com/products/tigra_slider_control/[^]
I just thought of sharing this with CP also, since it would be a good to have this for our Voting. Instead of just separate 1, 2, 3, 4,5 this would be a fancy GUI. It would increase the amount of voting granularity like 2.5 but at the same time, on the server side, we need to be more careful regarding the precision.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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Vasudevan Deepak K wrote: we need to be more careful regarding the precision
Well, you've said it. 
Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish, he'll eat for lifetime.
Pradeep Joe
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Vasudevan Deepak K wrote: It would increase the amount of voting granularity like 2.5
Cool. I've been waiting for years together to throw votes like 3.52, 1.23, etc.,
I mean that's what we need.
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Sorry, but this is a bad idea.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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[I know you've shot this down when I suggested it before, so maybe someone else has an idea for implementation that will achieve what I would like to do...]
I'm looking at updating some of my previous articles - you know, the ones that have several pages worth of forum posts. It's a little painful to go through the posts one at a time, especially when you have to go back & forth between pages. What I would like to do is download all the posts to my PC so that I can browse through them while I look at my code. My idea: have a "Download All Posts" button appear at the top of each article forum, which would show up only when the author is looking at the page. I know this is simplistic, but it would really be helpful. Maybe the button would cause all the posts to be displayed on a single page, which could then be saved?
If anyone has a better idea of how to achieve this, please post!
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I'd have to second that thought - I know you've written some good articles (maybe some rubbish ones too that I haven't noticed...)
And anything that makes it easier for useful articles to be kept up to date by their authors has to be a good thing.
Only one of mine is nudging into that territory, so it doesn't affect me *yet* - but I can hope.
Iain.
Iain Clarke appearing in spite of being begged not to by CPallini.
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We can do this.
I'll add it to the TODO
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I get the "Error Page Error. err..." frequently. When it crops up the site is unusable for minutes.
Steve
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Still trying to get to the bottom of this one. The actual issue is the web application being unable to load the web.config file. This isn't supposed to happen but does. At the moment no idea why
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: The actual issue is the web application being unable to load the web.config file.
Is .NET framework proving as a true crap for true high traffic websites? 
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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Browsing someone else's bookmarks
How about allowing to browse someone elses bookmarks?
Probably the owner would have to enbable this feature. It might be a nice feature to re-discover
Add comment to bookmark
Letting me add a short comment to each of my bookmarks might be helpful in coming back to them, as neither the authors title nor abstract necessarily tells me why I would like to remember this article.
I am not sure if this feature is terribly great or even useful at all, though. Comments?
Remove the article URL from bookmark list
Showing the article URL doesn't really add any value. It's silly. It takes away space. You could put a personal annotation there... (hint hint)
"Bookmarked" as quality indicator
Not sure, but bookmarking an article is maybe a good indicator for article quality - especialyl if you somehow rate authors whose articles were bookmarked higher. (Would google sue?)
Just an idea for the neverending "how to find the good stuff" saga.
Download counter
Any obstacles in implementing "downloaded N times since xxxx"?
(Except maybe people gaming the system to artificially increase their download count, and kill the servers?)
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
blog: TDD - the Aha! | Linkify!| FoldWithUs! | sighist
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Someone elses Bookmarks
I'd have to disagree with you on this one. I don't want anybody to discover my secret VB fetish! And if it was an opt-in feature, you'd have to take pot luck as to whether someone had a public list. Would this be a button by their "head" in all their forum posts? On their articles? I can see that being a lot of work for neglible benefit.
Add comment.
Strongly agree.
Remove article URL.
Depending on how good the title and summary are, it gives you a bit more info about by why you bookmarked it. I'd have to agree that a user comment (which I like) would make my point irrelevant.
Bookmark count for an article.
I can see this being fairly simple to implement (conceptually at least) but isn't the voting system doing this job? You do only bookmark articles you like? And you do give them good votes?
Download counter
1/ Gamable (as you said), 2/ doesn't take into account the people who downloaded, looked at the code and ran with fear, rushing to grab flaming torches and pitchforks. Voting serves this need really.
Iain.
Iain Clarke appearing in spite of being begged not to by CPallini.
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OK, maybe I was a bit brief with my motivation.
Someone elses bookmarks:
Benefit: I'd love to see what the big brains here bookmark, and it might be a cool way to discover quality articles. There's a lof of well-aged gems here, buried in a heap of not-quite-rubbish. Exploring CP (at least for me) is mostly either exposure to the front page, or drilling down for a specific topic.
The opt in is definitely the biggest hurdle, and we can't make it opt out.
Though, gold members and above know all your fetishes anyway 
Bookmark count:
Yes, any ranking based on bookmark count would be mostly identical to voting, and not provide any additional value.
Still, a simple count is additional encouragement for authors. We publish here for different reasons - personally, I do it for the kicks of seeing my stuff being liked and used, and I'd value a bookmark slightly higher than a five vote.
Second, the voting system isn't perfect. I have always defended its merit in the long run, but something like a "bookmark rank" might help or replace article voting where or when it fails. Having the count would allow to evaluate its merit without implementing such a ranking.
I agree, though, that two rankings in parallel would be silly.
Download counter:
Again, just an ego booster for the author, and I don't think votes/popularity really measures up with download count.
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
blog: TDD - the Aha! | Linkify!| FoldWithUs! | sighist
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peterchen wrote: Download counter
Any obstacles in implementing "downloaded N times since xxxx"?
I suggested it several months ago
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I have signed into my account and gone to my settings. I select that I want the weekly newsletter (I used to get it fine). I select save. The page refreses with the newletter selected. However, if I go off the page and go back to my settings, the newsletter is no longer selected.
What's up???
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I guess, the ^ link which appears next to the descriptive text hyperlink should open a new window right? But in Search Results page, it opens in the same window. The _blank attribute seems to have been eaten by a hungry hamster which has run away.
Affected Page: search.aspx (results of search)
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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Can you send me an HTML grab of the results page? It's working fine from where I'm standing
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hello Chris,
I have emailed you the following at chris (at) and webmaster (at) codeproject.com:
1) Steps to reproduce
2) GeneratedSearchHTML.txt
I haven't pasted both here since it might slow down the page. I also got a JavaScript prompt that the content is bit long and hence chose to send you an email note instead of posting through this.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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I wrote an article and found various arbitrary formatting procedures that turned my article into something I didn't intend to write. Here are the problems:
1. The proper format for specifying time complexity for an algorithm (in "big-O notation") is O(n). When I tried submitting an article with that, they turned it into O(n), which looks kind of silly. What can I do about that?
2. For those of you who don't know C++, the end of a class declaration is supposed to be "};". That didn't make it into the first submittion, but when I submitted an edited version, they stripped it out. How do I get this change to be reflected?
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Send me the URL of the article and your original submission and I will look after it personally.
chris at codeproject dot com.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Was searching for a post (comments) in the Lounge and i couldn't figure out why I t find it until I realized that I wasn't always getting results in chronological order.
"I know which side I want to win regardless of how many wrongs they have to commit to achieve it." - Stan Shannon
Web - Blog - RSS - Math - LinkedIn - BM
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This is by design. Search results return values sorted by relevancy.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Bummer, cause I can usually estimate the date of when I saw something. It wasn't like this before though, right?
"I know which side I want to win regardless of how many wrongs they have to commit to achieve it." - Stan Shannon
Web - Blog - RSS - Math - LinkedIn - BM
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It's exactly as it was (without the timeouts )
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: without the timeouts
Now it is more better, Chris. The timeouts have significantly reduced. So you can feel relaxed that your server became a good puppy instead of being like barking angry dog. 
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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