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If these are serious replies, then I am confused ... I realize that I need to do the layout, style sheets, feature planning, authoring articles, etc.
My basic question is: What software is used underneath CodeProject? Is it commercially available so that I can use its capabilities for me to use in building something similar to CodeProject on our intranet?
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i know it sounds a bit sarcastic, but thats the process i would go through 
i dunno what software was used...but im sure any app capable of writing text files can be used.
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Sonork | 100.21142 | TheEclypse
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If you'd like to see how it's done, check the articles section here[^], and download the source for the forums. This should give you a valuable learning tool for developing your own internal site.
It is ok for women not to like sports, so long as they nod in the right places and bring beers at the right times.
Paul Watson, on Sports - 2/10/2003
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Traitor! 
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LOL!!!
It is ok for women not to like sports, so long as they nod in the right places and bring beers at the right times.
Paul Watson, on Sports - 2/10/2003
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My selected "Newsletter Topics" are: Site News, MFC/C++ articles, C# articles, and New articles.
Unfortunately (in my opinion), I still get ASP.NET articles. I suspect that's because there are "New" articles in the ASP.NET topic.
Perhaps I'm just confused, but how does the New articles topic interact with the other topics? If I select New articles does that mean all new articles? If so, what does unchecking ASP.NET do? I don't want all new articles--just the ones in the topics I'm interested in.
I don't know if anyone else would like it to work this way, but maybe New, Unedited, Edited, Updated, and Moved should be secondary filters applied to the main topics of C++, C#, and ASP.NET?
I'd also like to filter on the sub-topics, like Database, Mobile & Embedded, and others, but maybe that's too much for CodeProject to deal with?
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Would it be possible to have some way of knowing just how much workload is there for the editors, so that when articles are in the "Unedited" section, there is some kind of idea how long it might be before they are moved to the permanent section.
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Yes they are, but at some point any of the CP editors can review the article, make formatting adjustments etc, and they then get moved into the edited section.
This normally only happens to the good articles, although they the editors do seem to pick and choose.
Roger Allen
Sonork 100.10016
WHats brown and sticky?
A stick or some smelly stuff!
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As a former editor, I can answer this query. There is no queue or any sort of ordering for the unedited articles. An editor just picks an article, reviews and edits where necessary, then (using some forms) moves the article to its final destination in one of the edited sections. An article that's got bad grammar and formatting will likely stay unedited for a while; while an article that's perfectly typed, uses the correct CP styles and so on, is cake to review and will probably get moved the next time the section editor takes time to edit.
--Mike--
The Internet is a place where absolutely nothing happens.
-- Strong Bad
1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click!
My really out-of-date homepage
Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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I discovered this occasionally trying to download file on new computer.
This doesn't prevent "abusing the limited resources", as claimed on the download screen, because anyone can register as a member. This looks annoying to a new user (I used CodeProject number of years before registering and I think this is the best solution). And this adds a lot of non-active user accounts to the CodeProject.
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The policy is in place to prevent spiders from getting all the ZIP files. This is bad because someone can then get access to the files without generating ad impressions on CP pages. It's not meant to keep real people from getting the files. (And as you've noted, it's not... the membership has skyrocketed since the policy was started, but that's ok.)
--Mike--
The Internet is a place where absolutely nothing happens.
-- Strong Bad
1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click!
My really out-of-date homepage
Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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Hey Chris,
According to the demographics, http://www.codeproject.com/script/profile/demographics.asp[^], there's 3800 of us in the UK is that enough for you to see if you can get us Brits a MSDN universal subscription discount from good ole' MS? It's really rather expensive over here - Universal is over £2000, or over $3000 
Cheers,
Barry
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Does anyone else keep getting User Info Requests they haven't asked for?
Every now and then (actually four times this week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday mornings GMT and about half hour ago), I seem to get one message with the name of my article in the Subject (with spaces removed) and two User Info Requests for each message I've posted in that article.
The UIRs come from CodeProject Forums. The blank message seems to come from somewhere different each time. Today it was "CodeProject", earlier in the week "ds100" and a few weeks ago "SasaCZ".
I have to assume there's something automated (possibly targetted specifically at CP) looking for something, but what? Why? And can we stop it?
Paul
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath, one day closer to death - Pink Floyd, Time
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Why do message board posts here persist on displaying the *new* icon even on subsequent visits? I would have imagined there'd at least be a timestamp in a cookie so it knew when I had visted last. The site remembers my login no problem, surely these message boards couldn't have a new icon without some way to track what was new or not..
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Do you have cookies enabled?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Yes, in fact here's the data from it right now (last line mangled intentionally):
LastVisit
1%2F25%2F2003+10%3A53%3A22+PM
www.thecodeproject.com/
1536
226615296
29577624
530184256
XXXXXXXX
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The question is, why would it think my last visit qas 1/25/2003, when it is in fact about 5 minutes ago. Note that because I have the cookie, I don't need to manually login - perhaps it is only setting the last visit date when I manually login?
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The new "search all forums at once" feature seems quite nice, but i can no longer find a way to search for a complete phrase, only for groups of adjacent non-space characters. Any chance of getting this changed?
Shog9
The Man.
The Legend.
The Bored, Narcissistic, Whiteboard-marker Sniffing Programmer.
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Once again, CP seems to be falling victim to it's own popularity.
Today, CP is nearly unuseable. It takes 30+ seconds between clicks and roughly half the time everything times out, and i'm left with a CP page with 0 messages.
Further, there's been an ongoing problem for many months when using Threaded view and threads which span multiple pages. Frequently, i'm sent back to the first page, even if i'm 20 pages in. Today, I've noticed that there is no way to see messages which span more than one page. Moving to the next page, the first entry is the next thread, not the continuing messages in the previous thread.
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Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?
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Serious Erik, CP has been running smoothly for me for a couple of months now. A while back it was horrid, but lately it has been good.
Sometimes there seems to be discrepancies as to which server you latch on to, but that seems to have been sorted out.
Can you Ping and TraceRoute CP Ok, Or is there some useless connection in between?
Regardz
Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I'm guessing the concept of a 2 hour movie showing two guys eating a meal and talking struck them as 'foreign'
Rob Manderson wrote:
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I can ping just fine, 80ms or so. In fact, parts of the system which do not rely heavily on threaded messages are quite fast. It's the message boards that are so slow.
Perhaps we view them differently? Do you use "threaded" view? How many results?
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Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?
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Wow, My PING Avg return is over 400 today (
I normally use Dynamic 50,
But I just tried Thread View 50 and it took about 12 seconds.
I understand well your prior comment "victim of its own sucess", but for the life of me I can't think of a solution, that doesn't require large investment.
Regardz
Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I'm guessing the concept of a 2 hour movie showing two guys eating a meal and talking struck them as 'foreign'
Rob Manderson wrote:
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We're adding more hardware today or tomorrow.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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I use the dynamic view, and it's like lightning at the moment - hope that will help! Nothing worse than lacking the hourly / minutely / secondly / CP fix!
A pack of geeks, pale and skinny, feeling a bit pumped and macho after a morning of strenuous mouse clicking and dragging, arriving en masse at the gym. They carefully reset the machines to the lowest settings, offer to spot for each other on the 5 lb dumbells, and rediscover the art of macrame while attempting to jump rope. -Roger Wright on my colleagues and I going to gym each day at lunch
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