Bugs and Suggestions

Bradml10-Feb-07 22:15

10-Feb-07 22:15

Mate Chris is all powerful, right under Bob, I'm sure he could locate it Poke tongue | ;-P

Brad
Australian

- Captain See Sharp on "Religion"

any half intelligent person can come to the conclusion that pink unicorns do not exist.

S Douglas10-Feb-07 22:21

10-Feb-07 22:21

Bradml wrote:
Chris is all powerful,

Indeed, but what if he hasn't had his Java | [Coffee]

or a proper Beer | [beer]

yet?

I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:

Bradml10-Feb-07 22:42

10-Feb-07 22:42

S Douglas wrote:
had his or a proper yet?

Then we are all doomed!

Brad
Australian

- Captain See Sharp on "Religion"

any half intelligent person can come to the conclusion that pink unicorns do not exist.

S Douglas10-Feb-07 23:57

10-Feb-07 23:57

Bradml wrote:
Then we are all doomed!

I'm sure if Green Alien | [Alien]

discovers Chris messing with the servers without having consumed the proper drink yet there will be adverse consequences.

This doesn’t quite count as post padding does it? Smile | :)

I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:

Bradml11-Feb-07 0:04

11-Feb-07 0:04

S Douglas wrote:
This doesn’t quite count as post padding does it

Not by my standards it doesn't

Brad
Australian

- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"

A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.

S Douglas11-Feb-07 0:26

11-Feb-07 0:26

Bradml wrote:
Not by my standards it doesn't

I thought Australians only had standards covering beer? Smile | :)

I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:

Bradml12-Feb-07 18:20

12-Feb-07 18:20

That and women.

Brad
Australian

- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"

A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.

Chris Maunder11-Feb-07 11:11

Chris Maunder

11-Feb-07 11:11

All fixed

cheers,
Chris Maunder

CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

Bradml11-Feb-07 19:46

11-Feb-07 19:46

Thanks.

Brad
Australian

- Captain See Sharp on "Religion"

any half intelligent person can come to the conclusion that pink unicorns do not exist.

Michael Dunn11-Feb-07 21:28

Michael Dunn

11-Feb-07 21:28

Are the sunspots at the height of their 11-year cycle, by chance? The Forum Bug™ has been popping up more often than normal.

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Visual C++ MVP Cool | :cool:

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Ford, what's this fish doing in my ear?

Bradml11-Feb-07 22:08

11-Feb-07 22:08

Michael Dunn wrote:
The Forum Bug™

What is wrong with WYSIWYG?

Credited Programming Language Translation

Chris Maunder12-Feb-07 2:43

Chris Maunder

12-Feb-07 2:43

No, I've been travelling. As soon as my eyes are off the servers they go nuts.

I'm back in the office and am a mere 15 minute drive from being able to physically kick them. They should be much better now.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

Judah9-Feb-07 7:14

Judah

9-Feb-07 7:14

It would be nice to have the ability to upload a translation of the source code and receive credit for it. Say you see an article in VB.NET, so you download it and convert it to C#, because you happen to use that. It would be nice to be able to upload it for others to use and receive credit for it.

Dan Neely9-Feb-07 8:07

Dan Neely

9-Feb-07 8:07

agreed. What you can do is post the ported code on the message board with an appropriate subject. Not ideal, but for articles that aren't generating a steady long term message stream it can work reasonably well.

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Bradml9-Feb-07 20:04

9-Feb-07 20:04

Perhaps then linking to it in the original article... I like this idea.

Brad
Australian

- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"

A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.

Chris Maunder11-Feb-07 11:12

Chris Maunder

11-Feb-07 11:12

I like it. Added to The List

cheers,
Chris Maunder

CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

Random Article [feature request]

Hans Dietrich11-Feb-07 22:17

Hans Dietrich

11-Feb-07 22:17

I assume the translation would have its own score for voting purposes? - for example, in case the translation was poor, you could vote 5 for the article, but 1 for the translation?

Josh Smith9-Feb-07 5:08

Josh Smith

9-Feb-07 5:08

I think it would be very cool if the CP home page had a "Goto Random Article" button. You click the button and are taken to some arbitrary article. It would be fun to use every now and then. I think that if you are on the "C#" homepage, then you should only be taken to articles in the C# category. Likewise for ASP.NET, or Architect, etc. If you're on the 'All Topics' homepage, then you can be taken to any article on CP.

What do you say?

:josh:
My WPF Blog[^

Michael P Butler9-Feb-07 10:18

Michael P Butler

9-Feb-07 10:18

Josh Smith wrote:
I think it would be very cool if the CP home page had a "Goto Random Article" button. You click the button and are taken to some arbitrary article. It would be fun to use every now and then. I think that if you are on the "C#" homepage, then you should only be taken to articles in the C# category. Likewise for ASP.NET, or Architect, etc. If you're on the 'All Topics' homepage, then you can be taken to any article on CP.

What do you say?

Doesn't Feature Article and Editors Pick meet your criteria?

Michael

CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]

Josh Smith9-Feb-07 11:03

Josh Smith

9-Feb-07 11:03

Michael P Butler wrote:
Doesn't Feature Article and Editors Pick meet your criteria?

Sort of, but not completely. There are probably many great articles on CP that I'll never read just because I would never happen to find it. True, the Feature Article and Editors Pick help to shine light on the exceptional ones, but what about the rest? What about the not-so-excellent-but-still-interesting ones that will never be put in the spotlight? I'd like to have a fun way of randomly finding some of those articles.

:josh:
My WPF Blog[^]

Michael Dunn9-Feb-07 11:11

Michael Dunn

9-Feb-07 11:11

I think Feature Article actually is random.

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Josh Smith9-Feb-07 11:19

Josh Smith

9-Feb-07 11:19

Michael Dunn wrote:
I think Feature Article actually is random.

In that case, the code for randomly selecting an article is already in place. With the "Goto Random Article" button, that logic could be executed at will (instead of at a scheduled interval). That way I could skip around to many random articles in less than a minute, in case I'm not interested in the current Featured Article.

:josh:
My WPF Blog[^]

Nish Nishant9-Feb-07 11:46

Nish Nishant

9-Feb-07 11:46

Michael Dunn wrote:
I think Feature Article actually is random.

It has a minimum rating-level I think. So it won't show a really cool article that may have been unfairly voted low.

Regards,
Nish

Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. (*Sample chapter available online*)

Shog⁹10-Feb-07 5:18

Shog⁹

10-Feb-07 5:18

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
It has a minimum rating-level I think. So it won't show a really cool article that may have been unfairly voted low.

Like that ever happens... Poke tongue | ;-P

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S Douglas10-Feb-07 20:48