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zulu wrote: Html Help file (CHM).
Why? But that should be a bulky binary file. Isn't it? 
Rather than this, how about exporting it to something like Google Accounts Bookmarks or a similar hosted webservice format? That should be more user-friendly. What do you feel? 
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Google Accounts Bookmarks or similar service is a good idea, but it would still require having an internet connection and on top of that, does it save the whole page including all attachments and images? I don't see much difference from exporting the 'my bookmarks' page into another simple 'bookmark' format.
What I would like is to export everything (articles and all associated files) into a single file, a sort of local repository of all che code project articles I'm interested in, so that I can access it at any time, anywhere.
In regard to the final file being bulky, if you consider even 1Mb on average per article, even if you have 100 bookmarks it's gonna be a 100mb file, which by current standard I don't consider bulky at all.
Perhaps the export application, instead of running on the website, it could be developed as a desktop application, which would periodically/manually check your bookmarks on code project, and syncronize your local version, updating your local chm file. In this way, if you have a really large number of bookmarks, you will wave to 'export' a large amount of data only once, successive export could be very fast and small.
Perhaps, the bookmarks downloader/syncronizer could even be developed as a library that could be reused by other applications. For example, I am developing a personal knowledge base application where I store all information I may need, including entire articles picked from various websites, and this library could be used to integrate code project articles into this personal knowledge base,
which also happens to be in Html Help format.
Zulu
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20,000 users, all exporting 100 Mb data - Chris's hamsters are going to be knackered.
"More functions should disregard input values and just return 12. It would make life easier." - comment posted on WTF
"This time yesterday, I still had 24 hours to meet the deadline I've just missed today."
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Well, first of all I don't know the number of visitors of code project per day, but I don't think all of them would export 100Mb of data together. Secondly, how much data does the code project website have to push everyday anyways.. a LOT. I think it can cope pretty fine with client applications downloading 100Mb once and then a couple more everytime bookmarks are syncronized after the initial download, assuming all user have a huge list of bookmarks anyways, which I doubt.
But, I don't know the figures, so Chris is the only one who can tell and evaluate if this is a possible thing.
Zulu
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zulu wrote: Secondly, how much data does the code project website have to push everyday anyways.. a LOT.
The new CodeProject, which Chris and Co. are working on and promising time and again and which they say they are making in ASP.NET should be able to achieve this.
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I noticed that if you cast a few votes in a short amount of time, maybe 1 minute...I don't really know, it will prevent you from voting until a certain amount of time has past. I believe this is to prevent those "drive by" voters from doing what they do. I believe the software should be more intelligent at determining the intention of the voter. Instead of the dirt simple "if ("user vote count > ... && time < ...")" Perhaps it should catalog the user's voting habits and use some kind of logic to determine when the user should be blocked from voting and how long the user should be blocked from voting, if the user should be blocked from voting at all. I'm sure a genius such as you and your employees could whip up an intelligent algorithm that could do this.
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CataclysmicQuantums wrote: use some kind of logic
The devil's in the details.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote:
The devil's in the details.
Yes, but it is possible. This is your website, its a great one and it will probably be around forever I hope. Its worth all the effort to make this site as perfect as possible and intelligent. Who knows maybe someday the website will become too smart, reading everyone's posts and articles and becoming an entity on its own. It will hack all the computers on the internet and evolve its mind using all the computers in the world and take over the world.
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I prefer to think that Bob will be a benevolent ruler.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Are you suggesting something similar to 'Number of Email Messages Per Hour' by free email services to thwart spam through thier website?
But here the need of the hour is to allow and patronize bona fide voting without any blocks but at the same time protecting the website from fake or abusive votes.
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: Are you suggesting something similar to 'Number of Email Messages Per Hour' by free email services to thwart spam through thier website?
Its already been implemented by Chris, I was suggesting a more intelligent algorithm to be used so it wouldn't seem so restricting.
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CataclysmicQuantums wrote: Its already been implemented by Chris
Where? Currently I feel only the following restrictions we have is the IP Address and Self-Vote restrictions. Isn't it?
(*) You can not vote onto yourself. The Vote links don't appear on your own messages.
(*) Messages posted from your own IP Address don't get the voting rights.
(*) An IP Address gets a single vote for a message.
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: Where? Currently I feel only the following restrictions we have is the IP Address and Self-Vote restrictions. Isn't it?
Nope, try it for your self. Just vote whatever on a bunch of messages and you will see. Just go down this forum and vote for every message you see.
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Picky, picky. Go fix your blockquotes. 
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This link is a registration page for Compuware that we're hosting on their behalf. The reg page itself explains that to access their information you need to register and that the registration info you provide will be forwarded to them. There's also a link to their privacy policy we ask you to read and accept before we do anything.
Asking for your registration details before providing content is a standard thing many companies do (or would like to do) but some companies don't have the infrastructure. We provide this for those companies unable to do it themselves.
You are already registered with CodeProject so we can pre-fill the form a little, but there's no way we're going to send your details on to anyone else with your express permission.
...and Jeff, you're always invited over for a barbie. Just don't bring any shrimps 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I think it is by the Terms of Service that CodeProject has designed. Also check out CP Privacy Policy here (http://www.codeproject.com/info/privacy.asp[^])
CP Team has clearly mentioned "we do not disclose any personal information to third parties". That is why, your member information has been denied at the Ad Partner URL.
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Hi All,
I've got a ugly right margin runoff problem. However, the article does not present any code snippets. My offline HTML editor is OK. Preview (when submitting or editing the article) is OK. When I select 'Get Article's HTML', the article is OK. The issue only appears when served up as a 'Live' article from CodeProject. Any ideas?
The script kiddies are going to beat me up adequately - I don't really need the added crutch of formatting issues. I see I already have already received my first Univote.
Jeff
Protection Schemes Based on Virus Survivability Techniques[^]
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The only suspicious thing I see are the blockquotes. You might try using div instead:
<div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 70px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 200px; background-color: #FFFFCC;
border-style: solid; border-width: thin; padding: 5px">
blah blah blah
</div>
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Hi Hans,
Hans Dietrich wrote: The only suspicious thing I see are the blockquotes.
Too many blockquotes for the proposed solution . Is it possible to tweak the global.css (http://www.codeproject.com/styles/global.css[^])?
This way, the issue would be resolved in this article, and any past or future articles (presuming that is the cause).
Jeff
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Jeffrey Walton wrote: Too many blockquotes for the proposed solution
Do a global replace, one time, for both begin and end blockquote tags. Just FYI, I've had detailed conversations with Chris about changing global.css, and you don't want to go there.
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The problem was the long URLs in the citation list at the end. I converted the URLs into hyperlinks and it's all good.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hi Chris,
Chris Maunder wrote: I converted the URLs into hyperlinks and it's all good.
Thank you very much.
Jeff
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Hi Chris,
Chris Maunder wrote: long URLs in the citation list at the end
I should have known better than adding citations
Jeff
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