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I thought Hans' suggestion was fairly coherent, but I do apologise for not getting back earlier. It's only me this week handling general bugs because everyone's doing crazy days on other stuff.
I sent a suggestion to forward me a newsletter you recieved. That will help me figure it out.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thanks Chris! My apologies for the "coherent" remark. Everyone else, Chris told me to look in my latest newsletter for a clickety that would fix everything. He fixed it for me, but I know where to look next time. All better now ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
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Where is the "Select Role" option? Whatever happened to the advanced search, it isn't pleasant. If this is supposed to be a new version of the search feature (I hope not), please just restore the previous one. The current one is completely unusable. For example, a search for "C++ Excel" should bring up the "BasicExcel class" article. It used to do that earlier, but not now. Can we have this fixed, please?
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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You actually used that? Wow.
The attribute chooser was streamlined so that you just type in specific tags to filter by (eg C++).
Two things:
If "Excel C++" isn't showing you what you want immediately then it could be that it's on a subsequent page. Results are ranked by relevancy and rating, with searches within a title given priority. We can also increase relevancy of the match against an article's tags
If you want the role dropdown brought back we can add that, say, to the right of the Tag filter box. Would that help?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I can almost get no results at all without the attribute filter. This is because if I search for something like "Thread Synchronization", the results will be clobbered mostly by articles on .NET, but I need Native C++ articles. It was very convenient to just choose the role (C++ developer) and the relevant languages (C, C++ and CLI/C++) were chosen automatically.
Choosing C++ developer from the combo is far more convenient than typing tags like "CLI/C++, C, C++". Not to mention when I need to pick articles from different languages, I can just repeatedly do the search by changing the role filter alone!
I also remember basic excel showing up in the first page (probably because the role filtering did it!). I'd like to have it back, please. It's a convenient little thing and I ALWAYS used it.
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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Ok, I'll come out of the closet and admit that I use stackoverflow.com on the side to find answers to my problems from time to time. Moving on...
I've come to like the member reputation rates they use. Most of the time, I'm awake enough to determine if an answer to a question is crap or not. Sometimes however, when I'm looking for an answer in a field that I'm not experienced in, it's hard to know if an answer is reliable or not. Over at stackoverflow.com, they allow you to rate answers. From what I can tell, these rates are then accumulated on the member who gave the answer. That way it's easier to filter out the noise.
How about such a feature here? You could always use the voting record of a message as the score that is added to the member's reputation score. For each vote, add to the accumulator. Slap on a factor to scale down the reputation score so that it doesn't grow too fast. Show the reputation score next to the name.
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Next time you log in let me know if that is what you are thinking about.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Oh ah la la la! I like how the forum code integrates with it. Allows for a discussion without bringing in the chatter noise in the actual question/answer flow.
I think though that a reputation score would be nice. It could then be used in both Q&A and in the forums as an credibility indicator.
Nice work! Too bad it wasn't there yesterday, because I had a really weird day with System.Environment.SpecialFolders and the way Vista & W7 handles localized folder names. It made me appreciate that I have learned Windows the hard way through Win32 and COM...
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Go to the beta discussions board and throw your thoughts at us. It's not yet live so is not being used, but give us a bit to iron things out a little and it's all yours.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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The Adserve bug is back and this time it also affects the top banner. (seems to be completely random tho)
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I'm getting those all over the site
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Thanks Tom. I'm staring at it in a hopeful manner right now.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: 'm staring at it in a hopeful manner right now.
Well as long as its still in a hopeful manner there is still hope 
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Tom Deketelaere wrote: Well as long as its still in a hopeful manner there is still hope
Perhaps soon there will be a change we can believe in.
Jon
'When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.' ~ Montesquieu
Soap Box 1.0: the first, the original, reborn troll-less
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The following Featured Article are not showing...
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Don't forget to click [Vote] / [Good Answer] on the post(s) that helped you.
I will not say I have failed 1000 times; I will say that I have discovered 1000 ways that can cause failure – Thomas Edison.
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Odd one. I've made a note and will chase this one up.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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It just shows 3 latest posts/questions in the first page. Rest of the pages seem fine. (checked in Chrome, FF 3.0.11, IE 8 and Ctrl + F5 didn't helped either)
It's not necessary to be so stupid, either, but people manage it. - Christian Graus, 2009 AD
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Fixed
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Browsing the CP Who's Who, ordered by Article count, the first page took a long time (ca 15 seconds) to show up, then yielded 25 people, starting with Marc Clifton (135 articles), and ending on razesh.kolla@gmail.com (0 articles). In fact the last three showed 0 articles, so that would imply a total of less than 2000 articles.
The second page starts with Uwe Keim (38 articles) and ends with Red Gate Software (1 article).
Page 3 starts with Roger Allen (26 articles), etc.
Something definitely is wrong, nothing serious, but wrong it is.
Luc Pattyn
I only read code that is properly indented, and rendered in a non-proportional font; hint: use PRE tags in forum messages
Local announcement (Antwerp region): Lange Wapper? Neen!
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This is partly a load issue (the time) and partly a bug (the article counts).
It's actually good timing because we've been discussing the specific manner in which we count articles for members and have been looking to denormalise our tables a little in order to help with performance in the case of sorting by article count. The debate was whether or not there is currently an issue with sorting by article count. We never saw it ourselves, but clearly it's an issue. Discussion ended.
As to the counts themselves, this is easily fixed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thanks.
Not sure I understand all this, according to the home page there's some 26K articles.
If they were all in one table, I would expect grouping and sorting that could be almost immediate. I guess having multiple authors (and maybe groups) complicates things a bit.
Anyway, I don't mind waiting a few seconds for this info, as I don't need it frequently; I do hope we always get correct data however.
FWIW: I would be very interested in reading a couple of articles on the CP database stuff itself, how things are organized: the infrastructure, maintainance, DB design, code structure, ... It is after all a big application we are familiar with as a user, and could learn from a lot.
Luc Pattyn
I only read code that is properly indented, and rendered in a non-proportional font; hint: use PRE tags in forum messages
Local announcement (Antwerp region): Lange Wapper? Neen!
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Counting articles is easy. Sorting 6.5 million members joined to a table 26,000 rows long takes time. You can always pre-aggregate the article table and then join these results with the member table and then sort on that, but that reduces the join from 6.5M on 26K to 6.5M on around 9K and so it doesn't save you much, and in fact means you have a massive temp table. So we'll add a new "ArticleCount' column to the user's table and ensure it stays in sync with reality. Kinda yuk, but the speed improvement will be massive because we can then put an index on that column.
As to the articles we've been tossing around a few ideas on exactly this - though possibly in podcast form where it's more of a thing where we sit down and you get to hear how we work through issues (and also get to hear about the bizarre and odd issues that you guys never see).
I like articles, but a podcast is something that can be created while we're actually working.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: "ArticleCount' column
I understand now, thanks. I hope you will use the new ArticleCount column only in situations where it doesn't really have to be real-time exact (as in listing users by article count); I would hope to see the real value when looking at my own page, say while I am in the process of adding/editing/removing articles and tips&tricks and what-have-you.
Chris Maunder wrote: podcast
looking forward to that.
Chris Maunder wrote: bizarre and odd issues that you guys never see
we sometimes do get our share of bizarre and odd results though. 
Luc Pattyn
I only read code that is properly indented, and rendered in a non-proportional font; hint: use PRE tags in forum messages
Local announcement (Antwerp region): Lange Wapper? Neen!
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