Bugs and Suggestions

Re: auto reload for the Lounge

29-Oct-01 19:26

If this idea is implemented please make sure that there is an on/off option. It takes 5 minutes for the Lounge to load for me and I normally spend longer than 5 minutes reading a full 50 post page Smile | :)

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

Nish Nishant31-Oct-01 6:38

Nish Nishant

31-Oct-01 6:38

Paul

They wont be able to comprehend the problems slow-bandwidthers like us face Frown | :-(

Nish

Re: auto reload for the Lounge (Slow Bandwidth Awareness day )

Paul Watson31-Oct-01 6:42

Re: auto reload for the Lounge (Slow Bandwidth Awareness day )

31-Oct-01 6:42

We shoud have a Slow Bandwidth Awareness day every year. On that day all broad band users must hook up a 33k modem and surf the internet like that.

This should generate awareness for our cause Smile | :)

Nish Nishant31-Oct-01 6:45

Nish Nishant

31-Oct-01 6:45

Yeah

Nish

33.6 kbps rulez!!!!!

Re: auto reload for the Lounge (Slow Bandwidth Awareness day )

Anders Molin1-Nov-01 3:55

Anders Molin

1-Nov-01 3:55

We shoud have a Slow Bandwidth Awareness day every year. On that day all broad band users must hook up a 33k modem and surf the internet like that.

Ooooh no, I have been using dial-up for too many years. Please let me enjoy my ADSL every day. Smile | :)

- Anders

Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"

e-Mail Forum(ing)

Paul Watson29-Oct-01 4:09

29-Oct-01 4:09

Maybe this has been mentioned before but it would be pretty damned cool if we could:
1- get a daily email of the new threads in Forums we "subscribe" to

2- be able to post replies to threads via email. e.g. John insults me Wink | ;)

and I insult him back by sending an email to a certain address at CP with the post's id in the subject

I am not saying it will be easy and strict formatting would have to be applied to e-mails so that the script would know where to post the reply.

Also yes it is open to abuse (10000 e-mails in reply to John in a LAS suit) but I am sure if we put our heads together we could figure out how to prevent the abuse.

This could tie into the previous suggestion that the forums be "merged" with a BB system so that we can use News Readers to browse the forum.

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

Re: e-Mail Forum(ing)

Chris Maunder31-Oct-01 1:09

31-Oct-01 1:09

Forum subscriptions are on the agenda. The amount of email this would entail is the only issue here.

Email replies to the forums? That's just asking for trouble Wink | ;)

cheers,
Chris Maunder (CodeProject)

FAQ for the lounge

James Spibey29-Oct-01 3:00

James Spibey

29-Oct-01 3:00

Chris,

Do you think it might be an idea to set up some sort of FAQ or usage guidelines for the lounge? It seems that just recently certain members (all of which seem to have joined fairly recently) are commiting the odd faux pas which some of the more long-standing members have to correct time and time again.

Pointing out that things such as posting technical questions, suggestions for the site, pointless comments such as 'I'm bored' etc etc are not welcome would help to cut out some of the crap that we seem to have to put up with on an almost daily basis now.

What do you think?

James Spibey

Well cover me in honey and throw me to the lesbians!

Paul Watson29-Oct-01 4:18

29-Oct-01 4:18

Why don't we just forward them onto John? Big Grin | :-D

Just kidding.

Actually this is a good idea James. Though we can be guaranteed of newbies (all respect to newbies Smile | :)

) still comitting a faux pas or two as they would not have all read the FAQ. Maybe as part of the registration process we can do a Microsoft. e.g. Please retype the last paragraph of the FAQ to verify that you have read it before continuing with registration. Cut and paste is disabled Wink | ;)

Well cover me in honey and throw me to the lesbians!
Where do I sign up? Big Grin | :-D

James Spibey29-Oct-01 4:30

James Spibey

29-Oct-01 4:30

Well cover me in honey and throw me to the lesbians!
Where do I sign up?

Get in line Big Grin | :-D

James Spibey

Well cover me in honey and throw me to the lesbians!

Chris Maunder4-Nov-01 2:11

4-Nov-01 2:11

What sort of things would you like to see in the FAQ?

cheers,
Chris Maunder (CodeProject)

James Spibey4-Nov-01 21:18

James Spibey

4-Nov-01 21:18

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

Chris Maunder5-Nov-01 1:43

5-Nov-01 1:43

okely dokely - I'll see what I can rustle up.

cheers,
Chris Maunder (CodeProject)

Code Snippets

Paul Watson28-Oct-01 19:46

28-Oct-01 19:46

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 Smile | :)

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

Chris Maunder29-Oct-01 0:50

29-Oct-01 0:50

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)

Paul Watson29-Oct-01 0:59

29-Oct-01 0:59

Me and my big mouth... Laugh | :laugh:

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? Big Grin | :-D

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

Jason Jystad31-Oct-01 10:00

Jason Jystad

31-Oct-01 10:00

>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? Laugh | :laugh:

Jason Jystad
Cito Technologies
www.citotech.net

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Chris Maunder4-Nov-01 1:55

4-Nov-01 1:55

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)

Jason Jystad5-Nov-01 6:12

Jason Jystad

5-Nov-01 6:12

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. Smile | :)

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 Poke tongue | ;-P

)

Jason Jystad
Cito Technologies
www.citotech.net

>------------------------------------------------<
"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)
>------------------------------------------------<

Paul Watson6-Nov-01 1:23

6-Nov-01 1:23

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 Wink | ;)

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 Smile | :)

Send me an email with any ideas and then we can sync up and go wild Smile | :)