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Yep, as far as I can tell, it's good to go.
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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To support the many different holidays while not cluttering up banner for people that don't care about some hlidays, here's my suggestion:
By default, show only holiday images associated with the user's selected country (in their profile).
In the user's profile, allow them to select which holiday(s) they see modified images for.
Also give them the ability to select holidays for other countries.
You could also extend this idea to show a Birthday Bob, but ony to the user(s) who's birthday is on a given day.
You could also extend this to show special Bobs for various user status, like MVP, and things like that.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Birthday Bob
He's usually in his birthday suit anyway.
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Excellent suggestions, John. 
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Given the number of posters who put the UK or USA as their location when they plainly aren't, that should get pleasantly confusing for them.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Given the number of posters who put the UK or USA as their location when they
plainly aren't, that should get pleasantly confusing for them.
The default should be some obscure country with zero festivals. 
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Liechtenstein it is then.
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Nah, give 'em Elbonia.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Those people have a shorter attention span than a hammer. They should suffer the consequences.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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That sounds unnecessarily complex. I also see nothing wrong with a little cultural education. If India or Australia or France have a special event happening, special enough that it affects the entire country, I think it's important we all at least be aware of this.
You're suggesting this because you don't want to see the Lycra come out for the final stage of the Tour de France. I have the image ready.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: If India or Australia or France have a special event happening, special enough that it affects the entire country, I think it's important we all at least be aware of this.
#cough# #cough# Bastille Day! #cough# #cough#
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Chris Maunder wrote: You're suggesting this because you don't want to see the Lycra come out for the
final stage of the Tour de France. I have the image ready.
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Lycra's okay, It's Sean and Lycra that worries me 
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Chris Maunder wrote: I also see nothing wrong with a little cultural education
I'm 55. I don't care about other cultures and can no longer be "educated". My suggestion was merely a personalization thing that NO other website currently implements. And like I suggested, if someone really want's to see the "other" holidays, they can turn 'em on in their profile. If you want to keep it simple, you could just restrict it to three checkboxes:
0) No holidays
1) Your country's holidays only
2) All holidays
3) Your bi...
FOUR! These FOUR checkboxes:
0) No holidays
1) Your country's holidays only
2) All holidays
3) Your birthday
On all non-holidays, the default image would reflect your current user icon (MVP, mentor, admin, etc)
I don't see how that's too complex. Each country could have it's own folder of holiday Bobs, and you could even ask for submissions from users, maybe have little mini-contests or something.
I only suggested this because you were posting in the Lounge yesterday, and i figured you had some free time on your hands.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I only suggested this because you were posting in the Lounge yesterday, and i figured you had some free time on your hands
The whole holiday image thing is something I've been trying to find the time to improve for, oh, years. I'm actually feeling very guilty about it.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: My suggestion was merely a personalization thing that NO other website
currently implements.
Apart from Google, although it doesn't celebrate my Birthday, I'll give you that.
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Buyt google doesn't give you the opportunity to turn it off, does it?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Some of the totals on the user home pages have disappeared; Articles, Q&A, Blogs, Videos.
The best things in life are not things.
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It is a ploy to stop DD posting the 1,250,000th post in the Lounge, and thn forever reminding us of the fact.
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The Maunder effect has come into play. He's removed the figures because he thinks they've been causing the crashes, bangs, wallops and billowing smoke over the last couple of days (since the new servers were put in place and Web21 went to join the server farm in the sky).
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: The Maunder effect has come into play.
I still think it's that .NET class that he rewrote. 
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I have found a small layout issue and hope this is not reported.
Browse the below URL,
Problem about Validation Controls[^]
Place the mouse over the Rating Stars in Solution1 and a Voting Contribution Graph will be displayed.But the issue is, the Report icon is also visible on top of the voting contribution graph. You can see the report menu on mouse over it.
Browser : IE7
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Found the problem. I dislike IE7.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hi Chris,
You change the Bob image on some global festivals. I made some logos for Indian festivals and shared it on GIT in last few months. I am informed by Kunal[^] that I should better ask you if this is permissible. I can send you the images if you wish.
Hoping for your positive reply.
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Prerak Patel wrote: I can send you the images if you wish.
I second this.
Please do email full res images and maybe even the raw psd files to Chris. That's the one thing CP's never been good at, showcasing Asian festivals like they do with American/Canadian/British ones.
You might want to give Chris some dates too so he knows when what festival falls and what it's associated with 
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