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Has something gone wrong with the Weekly Newsletter? I don't seem to have received one since April.
The Daily News and Web Dev newsletters are still coming through OK.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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The weekly is still going out strong. Did you miss it again this week?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Correct: it didn't turn up this week. I sent an email to the webmaster address - apparently, I'm not the only person experiencing the problem.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Found the issue and fixed.
That was a subtle one. The best kind, eh?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Excellent news! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Dear Sir;
With regarding to the thread view button, the count doesn't appear correct because the root message is counted with the replies. Either you change the text to "View the 2 messages in this thread" or "View the 1 replay to this message", but not
View the 2 replies to this message
Help people,so poeple can help you.
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This was a database issue which has since been fixed.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I created this account, because I thought it would be different from the StackExchange. I am familiar with the StackExchange network of sites, but I have never been on the programming sector. The only reason I've gained a high rep on some SE sites is that I actually know or do my own research in academic literature. As a beginner, I didn't feel qualified for participating on the Stack Overflow site, because I might lose a lot of points, so much that I would lose all privileges or something, or ask a non-specific, non-expert-level question. I am very good at mining for relevant information, so that's how I passed as an "expert" and got upvotes.
On this site, I was surprised that the set-up was so similar to the StackExchange. It has a preview below the submission form box. It has upvotes and downvotes, and reputation points based on those votes. I asked my first question on this site, and when I returned, I noticed that my question was rated 1/5.
I think CodeProject is for people who code, as it says in the subtitle of the logo, not for people who are absolute beginners.
I would like to know the expectations of the questions and answers that will get upvotes or 5 stars. Some kind of guideline would be helpful. 
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You just have to accept that this is the internet and trolls abound, and often downvote without explanation. Does it hurt you in any way? Answer: no.
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Um... thanks for the reply.
Your profile says you are a retired software support engineer. And then it says you want to be a "real programmer". Um... what does a software support engineer do?
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I've given you a 5 on your comments and your question, so that should have given you a bit of a boost. To me, your question is perfectly fine. people have also answered you, so clearly a few people thought your question good enough to respond to. If you found an answer to be helpful, up-vote that answer, and comment back to the OP that you appreciated their help and that you have voted them a 5. This builds up goodwill and improves the general ambience of this website (assuming more people did this). Initially, the trolls and insecure idiots will slant it in their favor, but once you are active here for a reasonable period of time, you will find that your score goes up. At the end of the day it's just an online score, but if it motivates you, good for you. And nope, this site is nowhere near as bad as SO is - and never will be, unless the owners change 
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Member KL wrote: what does a software support engineer do?
As little as he can get away with. 
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I just looked at your question and up-voted it. The question is quite reasonable.
My only thought about the downvote(s) is that some people are overly pedantic about the meaning of words even in cases where the intent is pretty clear. In your case the use of "infinitely" could have been their trigger. I think a word that may have softened this could be "arbitrarily".
...just a thought...
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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Sometimes an old question get spammed with a fake new answer.
Problem the question is reported as edited with a time that match the time that match the creation of new answer.
In the case bellow, the question report an edition without V2.
Convert c to vb6 code!!!!!![^]
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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No idea if this has been suggested before (I imagine I'm not the first to think of it), but it would be nice to be able to undo/cancel a vote you have made on a forum post. There are two situations where I feel this is necessary.
The first is simply that you accidentally clicked the upvote button and wish to undo it.
The second is if a message you previously upvoted has been edited, and you no longer wish to support the new message.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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... and the same sometimes goes for downvotes.
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Done.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Why is this in the "Bugs & Suggs" forum? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Because clippy was a bug?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It was in the vain hopes of humour.
I imagined certain keywords in Q&A would trigger "It seems like you're doing homework..."
I can see now how wrong I was.
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I see it as a suggestion to aid work at QA - Clippy can do the abuse part 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Two words: "April 1st"
:EvilCackleSmiley:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'm getting intermittent CSS issues (i.e. pages loading without the associated CSS).
F12 tools shows me 502 errors (Connection refused) on the offending css files (Main and no-media-query). A page refresh fixes the problem.
Everything is showing Web02 in the footer.
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