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cppfaq10dec04-23jan05.asp[^] by ThatsAlok. He did a series of them.
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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That is most probably the article I've most linked to in the past few years.
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It would be nice to be able to add forum threads to "my bookmarks" page, this way you can easily manage and follow threads that interest you without going through email notification.....
I am who I am because of who everyone around me is.
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Working on that
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Yes,
andthe possibility to organize the bookmarks into our own categories (like a mail archive)
and to do searches in the bookmarked articles+messages with a filter based on those categories
as well as one or two dates (before... and after...).
Greetings
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Recent day's programming forums is getting same type of question which are posted earlier. This looks like no one is using Search feature before posting question. What I suggest is, How about an option like Auto Search ?
When someone is starting a new thread in programming forums, do a quick search with the post contents automatically and display the results. Also an option to Continue with the post can be provided. If user is getting solution from the search result, that saves waiting time for getting reply. This will also keeps forums with unique topics and reduced DB size.
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Searching is an expensive operation and if every post was submitted to the search engine before posting (or during typing via AJAX) then the site would grind to a halt due to load
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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OK, it should not be automatic (it would even send the wrong signal, people would never
search any more).
But how about making it easier.
There have been some comments and ideas about that as of late, including this one.[^]
And how about a simple text shown (in bold!) on the form that one uses to formulate a
question; it would just explain there are articles, discussion boards, MSDN, and Google;
and provide a link for each of those (so I can trim down my sig again ?).
Regards
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Yep - we'll have to do something this.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Ok. Then as the previous poster suggested, how about some hint that tells them to do a search before posting ? The message that is on top of all forums which explains guidelines is not visible easily, and most of the people won't read it fully. Some hints on the message posting window will be helpful for the posters to fine tune their messages.
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Should let Chris know 
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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The article was mistakenly marked as C++. This didn't affect the outcome of the comp, but we will try and be more careful with attribution
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I've been seeing it for weeks but nobody else commented, so here goes. There's only one thread titled "What's inside a package?" but the pane on the left has two entries for it. 
Here[^] is the screenshot saved for posterity.
-- moved by ed. at 22:51 Monday 30th July, 2007
Cheers,
Vıkram.
After all is said and done, much is said and little is done.
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I assumed it was Chris's attempt at subtle humour....I nearly posted in the lounge a while ago but Satips bashing was in full flight so I got sidetracked.
"More functions should disregard input values and just return 12. It would make life easier." - comment posted on WTF
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I'd assumed it would go away once a new thread had been posted, but clearly I was wrong...
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: There's only one thread titled "What's inside a package?" but the pane on the left has two entries for it.
It is a demonstration of subtleness of some bugs.
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This morning someone posted a question on the lounge about how to contact site admins. For a minute, I realized that I couldn't quickly answer that question myself. The answer, of course, was the links on the left side pane.
That got me thinking. I rarely, if ever, look at the left hand side of the screen. Since the site's dynamic, I always look to the right side for updated info many times daily. When I need to search or browse, I use the links across the top.
So my suggestion would be to get rid of the right side panel, integrate that into the top menu, so that the dynamic content on each front page can be expanded upon. Static content, such as contact links, etc, can easily be placed either at the top or bottom. Redundant information, such as site polls should just be shown on the main page, since it's a summary of all tech. Maybe the left side could be designated as Ad space in certain places?
The other thing I'm curious about is why the site is using ASP instead of ASP.net?
Thanks!
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Bert delaVega wrote: why the site is using ASP instead of ASP.net?
I think there are plans to move it over to ASP.NET. It is only something I've heard around here...
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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I assume you are talking about the homepage. Are you thinking that maybe having the "latest questions" and "lounge latest" appear in a dropdown or similar?
As to ASP.NET: We currently have a new version written in ASP.NET currently in alpha testing. Until now there's simply been no pressing need to move to ASP.NET but with increased load and new features we wish to add we've bitten the bullet and invested a lot in reworking the infrastruvture from scratch
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Yes, the home page. What I was thinking is that the left side menu could be incorporated into two sections: the top menu and a bottom menu. So a section like "About the code project" could go on the bottom (footer) and some of the technology categories (for example "General C#, C# programming") could be a drop down from the top C# menu. That could free up some space for content.
For example, if you look at the new CNN.com site, you'll see a section menu across the top, static stuff on the botton. And the area in between is all news content links that change almost daily. If you look at cnn.com with the codeproject structure in mind, you might see what I mean.
The reason I'm suggesting it is because first time visitors would most likely use the left menus, along with everything else. But after making codeproject a part of your daily routine, you pull up the site and automatically look for new content (articles, lounge, questions, etc). After a while you forget to even look at the left side menu since it's static. Just my $.02, fwiw.
Thanks,
Bert
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Suggestion: To show messages in tree like structure as shown in screen shot, the advantage of this would a person can see maximum message in a current view. i am unable to write the proper english of that, so i am attaching the screen shot.
http://www.stylusstudio.com/images/screenshots/fixml_schema_file_org.gif[^]
here when user cick the "+" sign then the link of submessages are visible else not.
Best Regards,
Mushq
Mushtaque Ahmed Nizamani
Software Engineer
Ultimus Pakistan
"English is my second language, so please don't mind if i do some grammatical or spelling mistakes in my messages."
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Have you tried the "Thread View"? - in the combobox in the orange bar on top of these messages.
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Thanxs 
Best Regards,
Mushq
Mushtaque Ahmed Nizamani
Software Engineer
Ultimus Pakistan
"English is my second language, so please don't mind if i do some grammatical or spelling mistakes in my messages."
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