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"a military leader and diplomat who, after being exiled, conquered and governed the city of Valencia."  I wish.
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The Hardware Zone was down in error. We had extended the Hardware competition to allow some more entrants, and wanted to wait a bit to allow the later submissions a fair chance in the voting. The winners will be decided this week
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project
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Thanks. Glad to hear the Hardware Zone was an error. I was starting to worry that it was abandoned.
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Google translate gives me this for the Vietnamese translation of a comment on a native Vienamese question.
Ngay cả sau khi Google Translate đã có một cố gắng tốt, ý nghĩa của câu hỏi của bạn không rõ ràng. Vui lòng chỉnh sửa câu hỏi của bạn và thử lại, hoặc tìm một trang web bằng ngôn ngữ của bạn.
When viewed as a comment, it looks like this:
Ngay c? sau khi Google Translate dã có m?t c? g?ng t?t, ý nghia c?a câu h?i c?a b?n không rõ ràng. Vui lòng ch?nh s?a câu h?i c?a b?n và th? l?i, ho?c tìm m?t trang web b?ng ngôn ng? c?a b?n.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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Can you please send me the link to the comment?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Here: http://www.codeproject.com/script/comments/View.aspx?cmt=67836[^] but it won't be any help, I removed the translation when I realised it wouldn't be readable in Vietnamese.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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Thanks.I'll add this to the bug list and get it fixed.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hello,
Tow small issues:
1. It is impossible to upvote / downvote any of the messages from my BB phone. Simply the links are not there... And I can see my name on top so I've logged in.
2. Apart of that it would be ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) tastic to have the text window not as wide as it is today as it makes it really difficult to write any message from the phone.
Thanks for the great job with CP! 
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I have the BB Torch2, I turn sideways and get the bigger screen, makes it easier.
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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
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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Curve 3G here... I can turn it sideways but then it gets difficult to use... 
Does your phone works well? was tempted to get it but I was so happy with my old curve that I decided to stick there.
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I Love it, it works really well, but I still miss my Storm.
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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
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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Wow! Never used neither seen one, but some time ago I read at crackberry bad reviews for the storm... I do have bad experiences with touch screens in old phones and reading that bad review put in my mind the idea that ths storm was a bad phone and that bb did made a mistake making it. It has surprised me to read that you missed it. In which issues the storm is better than the torch?
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I had the Curve II. I tried playing around with CodeProject to make it Blackberry friendly, since that was my only offsite access some days, and finally realised I was fighting a losing battle. I bought an iPhone.
Joking aside, we don't have the resources at the moment to optimise for the old blackberry browser. We sunk a ton of dev time ensuring the site functions with no javascript because of the Blackberry JAaascript engine being best turned off since it was that awful. BB OS 6 uses a WebKit based browser. I can't recommend enough that Blackberry users upgrade if they wish to have a device that can browser the web sensibly.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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OK, this is not a really important issue... Let's wait until there's an upgrade protocol established for my phone.
Thanks for answering Chris. 
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It looks like you can create a question with a very short subject: certainly less than 30 characters.
But when you edit the question, you are prevented from updating it, because the subject length is too short. Up it to 30, and it works.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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I think the 30 character minimum length is a little harsh. I think you could come up with valid and informative question titles with less than 30 characters. I would like to see a reasonable maximum for question titles though.
Good catch.
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Yes, you can come up with questions shorter than that, but that doesn't mean your question will be well-worded, or worded well enough to want to be answered by someone.
I'm happy to field examples of questions less than, say, 25 characters for which the inclusion of extra characters is painful enough, and will cloud the original question enough, that a shorter limit should be considered.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Here is a post which someone tried to make the 30 character minimum. See here.[^]
I saw a question, I think last week sometime, where the poster put a bunch of dots ............. to make up the 30 character minimum.
WPF: Databinding Error (is an example that I just made up that is concise and less than 30 characters long)
Maybe I am looking at this the wrong way but I feel that question titles need to be descriptive, short, and to the point. You don't need to put your life story in a question title...it's the title not the question. The title should get our attention.
The extra characters is not painful, it looks unprofessional and annoying but again that is my opinion.
Just my 2 cents on the subject.
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That example is an excellent example of why a better subject line is needed. "Missing Parameter values" tells me nothing. "Missing Parameter value in Stored Procedure" would have been better. Actually, removing the question would have been better. The poster provided no information and no help to those trying to answer the question.
As I said: yes, it's certainly possible to create a short subject. Is this a competition to do so, or are we trying to encourage members to post well-posed questions?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris, I don't look at this as a competition. I am all about encouraging members to post well-posed questions...most of them don't and won't.
I actually enjoy editing questions to make them better (when I am lucky enough to get the chance). Thanks for reading my post and getting back to me with your thoughts on the matter.
modified on Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:44 AM
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Slacker007 wrote: I actually enjoy editing questions to make them better
Then you should be sainted. Thank you. I admit I get frustrated somedays at the state of the interwebz.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: Actually, removing the question would have been better.
I read your post again and I am unclear as to what are the ground rules for removing a question? Obviously, offensive and non-technical questions would be removed but what are the valid reasons for removing a question that is technical yet a bad question? Do we give the OP a chance to improve their question, give it a hundred one-votes and a bunch of critical comments or just delete it and move on?
I am not trying to be difficult here, I really am not. I just want to do the right thing that's all.
Cheers.
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Slacker007 wrote: I just want to do the right thing that's all.
I know
I have a very low tolerance for those who want help but make no effort to help those trying to help them. A question like the one that was posted, along with the discussion, made it feel like pulling teeth trying to get information from the poster about his problem. That's painful and draining and the question should be removed to make way for questions from posters more willing to be involved in the process of getting help.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Using Chrome 10.0.648.133, when I enter a Q&A Answer, I don't have the smilies list on the RHS of the textbox any more. I'm pretty sure I used to have them...
Any chance of getting them back? Or added, if it's my memory that is playing tricks on me. 
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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It is a known server error, refresh and they should reappear.
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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
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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