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Re: License clarification Tabris_55523-Sep-05 2:08 Tabris_555 23-Sep-05 2:08  Well, maybe not exactly, from the FAQ: # Can I use code snippets and programs in my own work? You can use code snippets and source code downloads in your applications as long as * You keep all copyright notices in the code intact. * You do not sell or repulish the code or it's associated article without the author's written agreement * You agree the code is provided as-is without any implied or express warranty. Some authors may also have specific restrictions on using code in commercial apps such as providing credit in documentation or sending them an email first. It's still not clear to me, whether the "do not sell the code" means "do not sell your program including the downloaded code snippet" or just "do not sell the code snippet by itself". Additionally, no license is mentioned in any of the code snippet's headers. Re: License clarification Corinna John23-Sep-05 2:31 Corinna John 23-Sep-05 2:31  akhilkh@hotmail.com wrote: You can use code snippets and source code downloads in your applications as long as * You keep all copyright notices in the code intact That sentence is the answer. If there are no copyright/license notices, you may use the snippets. akhilkh@hotmail.com wrote: You do not sell [...] the code [...] without the author's written agreement If you're not sure whether or not to sell the compiled code, just don't do it. The author could have included a license notice, and if he/she didn't include it, he/she wants to be asked (no matter how many mails per week it means). _________________________________ Please inform me about my English mistakes, as I'm still trying to learn your language! Take the bloody "email" link out, what were you thinking? Member 9621-Sep-05 5:24 Member 96 21-Sep-05 5:24  I am referring to the "email" link you see at the bottom of this message and all others which allows you to email directly to a person rather than replying in public. I'm getting very tired of people clicking on the direct "EMAIL" link instead of asking their question in an article forum where it can benefit others. 9 times out of 10 now when I get an email from someone about an article or in reply to a posting in an article message board it's a direct email. I used to be confused as to how they could do that because I would follow the link back from the email I got but wouldn't see their message posted until I realized that quite stupidly CP allows a person to just email right off the post directly. This completely defeats one of the main strengths of having a public discussion in each articles message board. I also do not want anyone emailing me directly, I'm not a help service, I'm a professional with very little spare time on my hands, I am happy to post a reply to someone in a public forum that will benefit others, but I most certainly am NOT happy helping people one on one. Why is CP shooting itself in the foot with this feature? And more importantly when will it be removed, immediately would be a fine for me! "A preoccupation with the next world pretty clearly signals an inability to cope credibly with this one." -- modified at 11:24 Wednesday 21st September, 2005 Re: Take the bloody Michael P Butler21-Sep-05 5:41 Michael P Butler 21-Sep-05 5:41  I agree. But first, I'd rather see my email address removed from reply notifications too. I don't mind having an email link on my CP profile page but I'd rather my email address didn't get sent to everybody I post a reply to. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^] Re: Take the bloody "email" link out, what were you thinking? Shog921-Sep-05 6:51 Shog9 21-Sep-05 6:51  See, this is why i filter my email. I should post an article about that... That said, it's nice on occasion to be able to take a conversation off-line. Though as Butler noted, it would be better if there was finer control over who got sent your email address... Post faster, post more, post now Re: Take the bloody "email" link out, what were you thinking? Member 9621-Sep-05 6:58 Member 96 21-Sep-05 6:58  Shog9 wrote: it's nice on occasion to be able to take a conversation off-line. Sure, but what has that got to do with what I posted? Anyone can click on the user icon, and send a private email, they should not be able to do that easily from the article message board which was my point. It defeats the entire purpose of having a public forum where people can learn from others. It's about as negative codeproject as you can get and on top of that it's annoying as hell for those of us without the time or inclination to deal one on one with people. We are faced with the decision of whether or not to just ignore those private emails or to confirm our private email address by replying to them saying "please post this in the forum where it will benefit others when I answer it...". Are you arguing in favor of a feature which goes against the grain of codeproject and helping others or have you just not thought it through very much before posting? "A preoccupation with the next world pretty clearly signals an inability to cope credibly with this one." Re: Take the bloody "email" link out, what were you thinking? Shog921-Sep-05 7:14 Shog9 21-Sep-05 7:14  Just quit smoking? My point was two-fold (hence the use of two sentences to represent it): 1) The private reply feature is nice to have, on occasion. 2) Giving my email address to anyone i reply to is less than desirable. If you say #1 would be better accomplished via a link from the profile page (or some other less-obvious manner), i won't disagree. But it is useful, and i'd hate to see it eliminated completely - regardless of how much you hate getting email. Post faster, post more, post now Re: Take the bloody "email" link out, what were you thinking? Member 9621-Sep-05 10:26 Member 96 21-Sep-05 10:26  Shog9 wrote: Just quit smoking? how *ever* did you guess? My point is a lot of people jump into a discussion pointlessly. I was clearly not advocating getting rid of private emails, that is a function of the user profile, no need to change that and not under discussion which was all about how the message boards for articles are being needlessly watered down by not having all communication about an article go through that article's publicly viewable discussion board. What you did in effect was water down my suggestion by going off on a tangent that didn't apply here. "A preoccupation with the next world pretty clearly signals an inability to cope credibly with this one." Re: Take the bloody "email" link out, what were you thinking? Shog921-Sep-05 11:28 Shog9 21-Sep-05 11:28  John Cardinal wrote: I was clearly not advocating getting rid of private emails, that is a function of the user profile Used to be a link from those, but i think it disappeared after someone started spamming from them... It's been a while though. John Cardinal wrote: What you did in effect was water down my suggestion by going off on a tangent that didn't apply here. Yeah... i do that. Post faster, post more, post now Messages Posted Bassam Abdul-Baki20-Sep-05 8:05 Bassam Abdul-Baki 20-Sep-05 8:05  Does the messages posted count decrease when a message gets deleted? Inquiring minds need to know. And no, I ain't gonna test it. "If only one person knows the truth, it is still the truth." - Mahatma Gandhi Web - Blog - RSS - Math Re: Messages Posted Chris Maunder20-Sep-05 10:11 Chris Maunder 20-Sep-05 10:11  Not now that messages are marked "Message Deleted" cheers, Chris Maunder CodeProject.com : C++ MVP do you ever feel like your life is missing that tiny little piece of paper that you fold up to put under the wobbly leg of the dinner table... Tutorials and beginners Trollslayer20-Sep-05 6:46 Trollslayer 20-Sep-05 6:46  Could we have a list of articles rated as tutorial/beginner, or maybe it could be added to the article search criteria? Thanks. Elaine (desperately learning fluffy tigress) The tigress is here Re: Tutorials and beginners Chris Maunder20-Sep-05 7:28 Chris Maunder 20-Sep-05 7:28  Here's one[^] I prepared earlier. (and look! A bug! ) cheers, Chris Maunder CodeProject.com : C++ MVP do you ever feel like your life is missing that tiny little piece of paper that you fold up to put under the wobbly leg of the dinner table... Re: Tutorials and beginners Trollslayer20-Sep-05 7:54 Trollslayer 20-Sep-05 7:54  Thanks Chris, I have been sent this link before but how do you find it from the front page? I can't find it there, in the articles serch or the site map The tigress is here Re: Tutorials and beginners Jon Sagara20-Sep-05 7:59 Jon Sagara 20-Sep-05 7:59  On the front page, there is a table titled "Latest Tutorials", right above the Industry News section. You can't click on the title, but if you click on the arrow at the top right of the table, it takes you to the Tutorials[^] page. Jon Sagara As you may presently yourself be fully made aware of, my grammar sucks. Sagara.org | Blog | My Articles J.O.N.S.A.G.A.R.A.: Journeying Operational Neohuman Skilled in Assassination, Galactic Analysis and Rational Astrophysics Re: Tutorials and beginners Shog920-Sep-05 8:16 Shog9 20-Sep-05 8:16  Bah, that's too easy - we should have to hold CTRL+ALT+PrntScrn while clicking that little arrow... Post faster, post more, post now Article ratings on list_articles pages Nicholas Butler20-Sep-05 3:45 Nicholas Butler 20-Sep-05 3:45  It would be really useful if the article stats were shown on the member's articles pages. ---------------------------- Be excellent to each other Articles and 1 votes Mathew Hall19-Sep-05 17:11 Mathew Hall 19-Sep-05 17:11  One of my articles has been on the receiving end of some 1 votes. The annoying part about this is that they didn't have the decency to explain why they felt that the article/code was so poor. So I'd like to suggest that it should be made compulsory to leave a comment when giving an article a 1 rating even if it is just to say "I gave you a 1 as I think your a tosser" "I think I speak on behalf of everyone here when I say huh?" - Buffy Re: Articles and 1 votes ha_ha_ha20-Sep-05 3:31 ha_ha_ha 20-Sep-05 3:31  My guess about some possible reasons for someone to do this (in general): * Author annoyed the voting member with some comment in the past, and this is a simple case of revenge. * Voter has a competing article in the same category and wants to vote the author down to lower their rating. Possibly related to ensuring their article or other articles they prefer instead to make it into the monthly article competition. * Voter thinks the rating is too high. They likely don't think the article is a 1. They just want to knock down the rating for no particular reason at all. Basically, I am saying that some people have an agenda when voting. They have some kind of bias. For example, I think some people will vote for an author higher, if they have something in common with the author (e.g., nationality). I'd like to see membership levels granted solely on the basis of article and message count, not length of membership. And restrict voting to members who have contributed something - messages and/or articles. People with 0/0 should not be allowed to vote. I'd also like to see a volunteer panel of CodeProject members/staff that ensures an unbiased component to the rating of any article. Re: Articles and 1 votes Chris Maunder20-Sep-05 6:20 Chris Maunder 20-Sep-05 6:20  The general consensus on this is that forcing people to comment on a "1" vote will mean you will have lots of: 1 - asdfsdfg comments. cheers, Chris Maunder CodeProject.com : C++ MVP do you ever feel like your life is missing that tiny little piece of paper that you fold up to put under the wobbly leg of the dinner table... Re: Articles and 1 votes Member 9621-Sep-05 5:28 Member 96 21-Sep-05 5:28  Although it certainly would not hurt to display some text to them when they do vote a 1 to the effect of "It is most helpful to the author if you post a comment explaining how the article could be improved" with an easy link or something so it's optional but reminded to them. "A preoccupation with the next world pretty clearly signals an inability to cope credibly with this one." updates to edited articles CWinThread16-Sep-05 17:25 CWinThread 16-Sep-05 17:25  What's the possibility of allowing authors to update their own articles themselves, even after they have been edited/moved by CodeProject staff? Much like how unedited article submissions work right now. It just seems like this would be a quicker way of getting the latest fixes out to members, as I suspect the typical update is something simple like a replacement zip file with bug fixes/minor features, and no changes to article text except for maybe the history section. The updated article could still go into a queue for eventual review by the editors. Re: updates to edited articles Corinna John19-Sep-05 1:18 Corinna John 19-Sep-05 1:18  After an update, the article should be marked "changed", or it could go back to "unedited contributions" until the next review. _________________________________ Please inform me about my English mistakes, as I'm still trying to learn your language! Spontaneous Forum Message Switching Blake Miller15-Sep-05 4:37 Blake Miller 15-Sep-05 4:37  LATELY (within the last week) after I post a reply to a message in a forum, and then have moved on to reading some other messages, about 1 minute or so later, I am ..POOFED.. back to the message I had just posted as a reply. VERY annoying Is this some crap IE bug on my end or something you changed at your end Thanks. Re: Spontaneous Forum Message Switching Jon Sagara16-Sep-05 2:11 Jon Sagara 16-Sep-05 2:11  It's happening to me, too. Jon Sagara As you may presently yourself be fully made aware of, my grammar sucks. Sagara.org | Blog | My Articles J.O.N.S.A.G.A.R.A.: Journeying Operational Neohuman Skilled in Assassination, Galactic Analysis and Rational Astrophysics

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