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Nice ideas, and I like the retroactive feedback.
When an article is first published, and there are few votes, it is impossible to reliably detect outliers. The retroactive system would solve that. Like it.
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I like the idea. A low vote with no feedback will not benefit any party.
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This suggestion is pretty weak, but I thought I'd put it out there anyway, just in case you hadn't considered it...
I noticed that the Top Ranked Articles page links to articles with an anchor that has "TopArticle" set as its target. Perhaps there is some design decision for that. However, it can be a nuisance. Suppose I right click on one of the links and select "open in new tab". That tab will now be set as the "TopArticle" target. Now, suppose I just click one of the other links... rather than nagivate to that page from the current page, the other tab that was opened will navigate to that page. This causes a couple issues:
- That the page was actually navigated to may not be obvious, as the user is expecting a new tab, a new window, or for the current page to navigate to the desired destination page.
- It loses the other page (i.e., the user may have forgotten that they were at another page and they might have just thought the click opened a new tab, causing them to skip over that first page entirely).
Neither of those are big issues, but you might as well get rid of the problem. I'm not quite sure why it was decided to set the target to TopArticle. Perhaps you expect the user to read one article and then click a link for another, thereby navigating away from the "old" already read article. Usually this type of link target would be used with a frame, but there are no frames. Anyway, I don't really see a problem with setting the target to nothing or something else (_blank?).
FYI, I use IE8 on Windows XP.
Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE.
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Hmm - how about that.
Target=anything is kinda dumb. I've removed it and will upload the fix in the next day or so.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I got the following error while attempting to post a reply to a message at the bottom of one of my articles:
Items that need attention:
•You must supply an email and name for this message.
•There were problems with your new message
After I got that message, I tried again to post the message, but it was taking a while so I just closed the browser window. When I later visited my article, I noticed that my reply had been posted.
Here is a link to the message I was trying to reply to: Message
Here is a link to my reply message: Reply
Looks like somebody else had this same issue before and reported it as a bug: History Repeats Itself
By the way, CodeProject was being REALLY slow during the timeframe this problem occurred. It took what seemed like a minute to load the CodeProject homepage. I'd put money on this being related to that slowdown, in which case the error message should say something like "our servers are experiencing some problems" rather than "your message is missing info".
Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE.
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This happened because the weekly database update was occurring and for about 3-5 minutes the entire site was on a go-slow.
The error message, howeever, is just plain unhelpful. I'll get that sorted out.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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greetings from somebody else.
Luc Pattyn
I only read code that is properly indented, and rendered in a non-proportional font; hint: use PRE tags in forum messages
Local announcement (Antwerp region): Lange Wapper? 59.24% waren verstandig genoeg om NEEN te stemmen; bye bye viaduct.
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I just clicked on a link that took me to http://www.codeproject.com/info/submit.asp which gave a 404 Server Error.
Can you redirect this url to http://www.codeproject.com/info/submit.aspx?
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It already is redirected - but it looks like one of the servers is not playing nice with its ASP.
Thanks for letting me know.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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*click*
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I noticed that the pager for the comments on the current survey page[^] isn't working quite right. Even though there are 50 comments which should result in 2 pages with my default setting of 25 results per page, there's a link to a phantom 3rd page. I checked in Firefox, IE7, Opera, Safari, and Chrome, all with the same results. I can provide a screenshot if necessary.
Normally I wouldn't bother you folks with something this small, but I figured you might want to know in case it was some off-by-one bug with a query or your pager control.
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Well spotted. I've fixed it locally and will upload the new code tomorrow
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Kythen wrote: Normally I wouldn't bother you folks with something this small, but I figured you might want to know in case it was some off-by-one bug with a query or your pager control.
If you find stuff like this report it. Chris's employee's need even minor bug fixes to justify their continued employment.
Edit: added joke icon.
The latest nation. Procrastination.
modified on Monday, October 19, 2009 10:05 AM
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Dan Neely wrote: Chris's employee's need even minor bug fixes to justify their continued employment.
I don't think I quite get you, Dan. I think my team would be pretty upset to hear you say that given the hours they have been putting in lately.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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It was supposed to be a joke since very little of what they're working on has had a publicly visible affect.
The latest nation. Procrastination.
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In The Lounge I have just had the 'can only see the first 6(ish) posts' and on refresh I got 'the adserve box at the bottom'.
Is it my turn?
FYI FF 3.5.3, XP SP3, Inside leg 29.5".
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Henry Minute wrote: Inside leg 29.5".
Ah... a fellow 'shortarse', ain't life a bitch!
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DaveyM69 wrote: Ah... a fellow 'shortarse', ain't life a bitch! Hmmm
Yep!
Fortunately, in my case it's only the two outside legs that are short.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Are you the famous Orsm?
Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE.
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No.
I am an Orsm of a different colour.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Has this been repeatable? Sounds like a server cycled or a connection dropped halfway through page load.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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It happened twice, immediately before I reported it but no further occurrences. I only logged it here as the symptoms were the same or similar to incidents reported previously by others. I thought that if there were a problem it might help you to have an additional time frame.
Thanks.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Have you considered doing a Programming Forums Question Wizard (PFQW)?
The wizard would prompt for error message text (frequently omitted), code snippet (frequently omitted, or not formatted with pre tags), dev tool version info (VS, etc.), and OS version info.
This could be made mandatory for new members, for posting questions on any of the programming forums.
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That's one incredible idea! Could be added to the beta if you ask me.
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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