Bugs and Suggestions

Andy Brummer2-Aug-06 12:00

Andy Brummer

2-Aug-06 12:00

Wild Ass Guess is my WAG.

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Ashley van Gerven1-Aug-06 12:44

Ashley van Gerven

1-Aug-06 12:44

Chris, is it generally acceptable to link the source & demo ZIP from your own domain if you want to see the number of downloads?

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Chris Maunder1-Aug-06 14:36

1-Aug-06 14:36

No, because almost 100% of all outside links to downloads that we've had on CodeProject break within 6 months. We require all articles to provide a local download so that no matter what happens a version of the download is always available.

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Shog⁹1-Aug-06 15:06

Shog⁹

1-Aug-06 15:06

Of course now we're all dying to know whether there's actually a formula used to generate that number, or if you just scribbled some bogus numbers on a napkin and multiplied...

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Hans Dietrich2-Aug-06 8:57

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2-Aug-06 8:57

I think both of these would be very useful. #2 especially - I have seen authors improve their articles, and I could not upgrade the vote I gave.

For #1, it would be useful even if you started the count from 0 today, for all articles. Maybe at some future time, when you've added more servers, and CP is just too fast, you can run your log-diving batch and get the true count. Smile | :)

Michael Dunn2-Aug-06 12:25

Michael Dunn

2-Aug-06 12:25

It would take only 3.761 hours to parse those logs with Perl Wink | ;)

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Shog⁹2-Aug-06 15:14

Shog⁹

2-Aug-06 15:14

And you'd only spend 3.761 years tweaking the script... Poke tongue | ;-P

BlackDice11-Aug-06 9:33

BlackDice

11-Aug-06 9:33

??? - I'm still bugging you!! Smile | :)

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Ashley van Gerven1-Aug-06 12:42

Ashley van Gerven

1-Aug-06 12:42

Dang.. I replied to you in the lounge and it got moved... lost my post Hmmm | :|

Oh well summary of it was: #1 has been suggested here before & would definitely be a great feature so you can kind of gauge how useful your code actually is.

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Chris Maunder1-Aug-06 14:37

1-Aug-06 14:37

And the reply didn't chase the moving thread? Confused | :confused:

Hmmmm...Sorry about that.

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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar4-Aug-06 6:44

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

4-Aug-06 6:44

BlackDice wrote:
the rating in my head is now a 4, but I can't change it.

True. As the articles mature into versions, there should be a provision to have the Votes/Ratings should be reset (optionally) for next updates.

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Chris Maunder4-Aug-06 9:13

4-Aug-06 9:13

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:
there should be a provision to have the Votes/Ratings should be reset (optionally) for next updates

If we do this then we'll have people sending in trivial updates each time they feel their article is being rated too low.

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BlogRolls

Josh Smith1-Aug-06 8:40

Josh Smith

1-Aug-06 8:40

I think that it would be great if CP had a section which consisted of lists of blogs authored by CPians. Since many of us have blogs that we'd like to share with others, it would be 'nice' if we could somehow share links to our blogs with each other here on CP. Perhaps break up the category, such as 'ASP.NET Blogs', 'WinFx Blogs' etc.

Maybe there would be some minimum criteria to have your blog be rolled, such as you must have submitted at least 3 or 5 articles on CP in the past year, just to keep people from joining CP in order to add their blog to the rolls.

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No PHP?

#realJSOP1-Aug-06 0:32

#realJSOP

1-Aug-06 0:32

I think you should add PHP to the list of languages in the member profile stuff.

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Re: No PHP?

toxcct1-Aug-06 3:28

toxcct

1-Aug-06 3:28

as much as Fortran ? Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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Re: No PHP?

#realJSOP1-Aug-06 23:27

#realJSOP

1-Aug-06 23:27

Since PHP is still a marketable skill, I think it belongs in the list just as much as Perl does.

Cosmetic Bug

User 842031-Jul-06 13:24

User 8420

31-Jul-06 13:24

Noticed on the snazzy new green menu bar that I have an extra "e" just to the right of the word "Lounge". If I click it, it sends me to the Lounge.

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS running Firefox 1.5.0.5 at 1024x768

This extra "e" does not display on Windows XP running IE7 B3 at 1280x1024

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Re: Cosmetic Bug

toxcct1-Aug-06 3:31

toxcct

1-Aug-06 3:31

i think it comes from the fact that the menu actually overlaps 5 other items (in the case when the menu is not fully loaded yet), and sometimes, it isn't positioned very well.

then, i think the "e" you see is the trailing "e" of the "Lounge" overlapped...

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Re: Cosmetic Bug

User 84201-Aug-06 13:26

User 8420

1-Aug-06 13:26

toxcct wrote:
i think it comes from the fact that the menu actually overlaps 5 other items (in the case when the menu is not fully loaded yet), and sometimes, it isn't positioned very well.

then, i think the "e" you see is the trailing "e" of the "Lounge" overlapped...

All true, yet it's still a bug that I'm sure Chris would like to hear about.

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Chris Meech31-Jul-06 3:04

Chris Meech

31-Jul-06 3:04

seems to be back in form, today. Either column on the left has gotten wider or the forum column has been made wider. But it seems that any forum I go to now, I have a horizontal scroll bar to scroll for about 25 maybe 50 pixels. ( IE 6 on a 1024 x 768 screen). Thanks.

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Chris Maunder31-Jul-06 8:39

31-Jul-06 8:39

Yeah, I noticed the page have become wider. I tweak one thing, another thing breaks Big Grin | :-D

I'll look into it.

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Obviously...

Shog⁹31-Jul-06 8:56

Shog⁹

31-Jul-06 8:56

We need some sort of fancy "flow layout" system for websites like they have for WinForms apps now.

Chris Meech31-Jul-06 9:17

Chris Meech

31-Jul-06 9:17

Things seem pretty good now. That last tweak must have done it. Smile | :)

Thanks.

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Chris Meech1-Aug-06 7:20

Chris Meech

1-Aug-06 7:20

I think you need to look into it again. Blush | :O

I think it is happening in the part of the page that has a three column list of all the forums with their post counts. For some reason it just seems to be creeping wider each day.

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Chris Maunder2-Aug-06 14:46