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eg A Simple Pie Chart Control - Improved 3-D Pie Chart -2[^]
I'm making no criticism of the original article here - it looks like great stuff, well written, with nice diagrams.
But I think it will cause confusion if you are browsing for a (eg) pie chart. Article 2 has more votes that Article 3. So, Bob User comes along, and picks the best voted pie chart. He is now missing out on all the wondrous improvements.
If I have Article 2 bookmarked to follow, I won't see that there's been any improvements...
I can't think of any author's who I follow that make new articles instead of updating.
It also can work as Reputation Gaming, but I doubt that's the motive in the example I'm picking on.
I'm not sure how to prevent this from happening without being draconion. Maybe we need some famous Aussie Diplomacy? Or use the JSOP approach?
Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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This is a long standing issue - not so much about authors standing on the shoulders of prior, greater authors, but with great articles getting long in the tooth and other articles appearing through necessity.
We're going to work on improving the article system to allow addendas instead of complete new articles. This will have to be handled delicately, but I have a big motivation with wanting to hand off my 100+ articles to those who would like to carry on the legacy. There's no point in a new article if the new code contains improvements or alternatives on the given article.
As to this particular article: the author was careful to reference, in the first line, the previous works.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Agreed! 
I'm deleting this new article and I'm sending the content and the downloads (demo/src files) to codeproject to update my original article.
Thanks Iain for pointing out this!
Prasad.
PrasadSR
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cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer wrote: I can't think of any author's who I follow that make new articles instead of updating.
[Ahem]
I had to make this choice recently when I went to upload my article XCrashReport: Exception Handling and Crash Reporting for Win32/64 - Part 5[^]
I had made massive changes to the codebase in addition to porting to VS2008, but I didn't want to discard the VS6 version because I know that some people still use it. Also, it would make the article a mess to read, if I had to continually say, "Now in VS6.." or "Now in VS2008...".
So I created a new article.
In general, I agree with what you're saying, and with many of my articles you can see the revision history, all with the same article; it's an iterative set of improvements.
However, if this would cause confusion or decreased clarity or just make things too damn complicated in the article, I wouldn't hesitate for a second to create a new article.
The way I would put it is, authors should be encouraged not to write a new article with each new version, with maybe some nudging by CP editors, but in the end it's their call.
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I agree with you 100%. In your case, this wasn't simply a "here's some improvements and bugfixes", more a "here a new set of code working in a different way for essentially a different OS".
In the case of the article I referenced above, it was very much a bugfix and minor (codewise) changes. It was well written, and showed a good progression, so I hope he keeps at least some of the new story in the updated article.
I tried to be delicate - I certainly don't want to contribute to an atmosphere hostile to authors posting good articles. Or even medium ones - my later articles were of better quality than my earlier ones...
So, everyone is happy. Hurrah!
Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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In the survey results, there are currently 9 optional text answers, but only 7 people voted "other". How comes? It looks like it is possible to choose one of the given answers, but nevertheless give an optional text answer. Can't verify this, since I already voted.
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)
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Yes, it is possible in this survey to add a text answer on top of a preselected option
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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A suggestion, that to have an reputation points grouped by reputation type for each member and listed under his/her profile.
Knock out 't' from can't,
You can if you think you can. 
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On which page are you thinking? Forums, articles, Quick Answers?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: On which page are you thinking? Forums, articles, Quick Answers?
I am thinking of reputation points in member profile, same like total reputation points and with categorization/reputation type.
Knock out 't' from can't,
You can if you think you can.
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Currently, we don't have any option to vote (for ongoing survey) on survey results page. We do open the survey results page on clicking the survey from surveys page http://www.codeproject.com/script/Surveys/List.aspx[^].
If interested, one would like to vote on the same page. Also, we should allow to vote for open/ongoing surveys only.
Knock out 't' from can't,
You can if you think you can.
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When I go to the survey result pages I could not found any Home page link. The survey result page should have a link for home page (my personal opinion).
Thanks
Md. Marufuzzaman
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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No home page link on this page either, but click on Bob and ET Phones home.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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It's back
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Only just noticed!
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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I have been battling with Q&A's this morning, when i click the preview, it is empty.
I thought it might be Chrome so checked IE and it is the same, but it did show an error;
Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; Tablet PC 2.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
Timestamp: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:25:59 UTC
Message: 'newEntryData' is undefined
Line: 1381
Char: 29
Code: 0
URI: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Answers/Post.aspx?aid=90488
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Have you forced a refresh using Ctlr+F5?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Yes, several times.......
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Found it, fixed it.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Here are some suggestions / problems I experienced.
1. The font size of fly out menu can be reduced a bit, as I am not able to see everything under Questions and Answers. (I am still working with 1024 * 768)
2. Styles are breaking for tabs (Your Answer / Quick Preview) appearing in Q&A forum in Firefox.
"Never put off until run time what you can do at compile time."
- David Gries, in "Compiler Construction for Digital Computers", circa 1969.
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Can you try doing a full refresh (Ctrl+F5) to see if tha tab issues go away.
Am working on the flyout menu today
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I was just trying to find an email I had sent by clicking the Email link on a post that a member had made. These emails aren't listed in the Messages Posted list, so I'd like to suggest that a copy of the email be sent to the sender. Maybe there could be a checkbox Send me a copy of this email when you send an email to a member.
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This is actually a repeat of one of your earlier requests, and funnily enough I reviewed it last week and was thinking "how important is this".
For me, I don't see a personal need, but I'm not the only user here. For you, give me a 1-10 for importance. Is it a nice-to-have or a this-will-make-my-life-a-lot-easier?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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It's really very simple: there is currently no way to track emails sent.
For me I would rate this higher than anything else I have asked for. So I guess that makes it 11 or 12.
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