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I'm not fond of outline numbered (and even automatically numbered) headers. I appreciate their power within a single document, but I can't use them to refer to some paragraph from say another word document without risking the numbering becoming stale. So I have created in the past 100+ page documents with manual numbering to make sure they are unlikely to ever change! (Of course I create them with autonumbering on, then I turn it off before the first release).
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Cross document tracing is a PITA; but when most of my docs are guaranteed to have at least two delivered versions (pre-development for client review, and final with the shipped app) making them immutable the first time through isn't an option.
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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Just a suggestion...
I see there is "top articles" and "recent articles", but why not have a "random articles" option? Seems like a good way to get some old articles traffic. And I'm not always looking for the latest and greatest or a particular article. Sometimes, I just want to see some random articles.
Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE.
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Seems this feature has already been requested. Oh well, consider this my vote for it.
Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE.
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Is the new "See Also" set of links within articles enough? They aren't random - they are a list of articles that others who have read the given article have also read - but I thought it might be sufficient.
If not, let me know.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Sometimes I'm not really looking for something in particular. By seeing related articles, I would have had to already be at an article, probably via one of the other means of finding articles (recent, search, etc.). The "see also" feature is a useful one, especially when I'm really interested in a technology (e.g., WPF), but a random article feature seems like it would satisfy a different need... to explore the unknown rather than chart the path ahead. Imagine the delight of a computer science student while on Code Project and coming across (without already knowing what they are looking for and searching for it) something called "LISP" and finding out it's a language composed almost entirely of parentheses.
As an analogy, do you ever try to find interesting restaurants? I do... I like to find the holes in the wall that have something unique*, rather than the "best of the best" with good reviews. Random articles would be that "hole in the wall" experience.
*I once had a salad at a Bavarian restaurant... it was unlike any salad I'd ever had before and is highly recommended.
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Fair enough.
Truly random, or random-where-rating-is-over-4?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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User configurable (a drop down, a star-selection control, or a checkbox list which would for example allow a user to select both 4+ articles and unrated articles), but defaults to greater than 4? Sometimes I want to see crappy underrated articles too. If you don't have the time to make it user configurable, I'd say the initial release should be fully random (despite popular advice).
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Are enquiries/questions done through webmaster@codeproject.com always answered?... sometimes only?... never?...
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They are, but it depends on the topic. Sean manages the easy ones, I manage the hard ones, and I am way, way behind.
Sorry 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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When Sean isn't looking, switch your pile with his 
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The problem is he would then do it back to me.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Is it possible to do something with this junk?
Console pseudo Artificial Intelligence[^]
It started from 3 high ratings, and was between "Latest Best Picks". Now there is a lot of 1 ratings, but he still fights adding 5 ratings.
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How did this manage to get published?
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Dang! I missed another chuckle. Why can't these articles first be sent to Purgatory, where everyone will give them a big guffaw stern look, before being kicked to Hell.
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This one in particular was one for the books.
I kinda want to reinstate it. 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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So what was the cause of the power failure the other day?
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A circuit breaker in the hosting centre failed. It was one of those things that was big, over engineered, fully mechanical and should never, ever fail because there's nothing really to fail (so I was told).
Anyway, it failed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Alex Fr wrote: Console pseudo Artificial Intelligence
Gee. It is gone now, and I've missed it.
Was it pseudo-artificial, or pseudo-intelligent?
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OK, it's back, but only for a limited time.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thanks, I used most of 30 seconds to read it twice. Never imagined Console class was intended for AI applications. I learn something new every day.
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I've read it again, with all the recent messages attached.
Now I'm convinced we need a new article group, for more philosophical stuff.
We shouldn't lose spiritual gems like this one.
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You know, quite seriously, this is better than some of the serious articles that get submitted. If the author had waited until April 1 he would have gotten Article of the Month. 
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ex-advertisement
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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