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I was under the impression that CP had a policy that all article source codes had to be hosted on the CP site so articles would not loose the source code if the other host site was taken down, removed, or otherwise disabled. If so, it seems odd to me that an article that is up for the best article of the month competion, and has been edited (AFAICT) by CP editors, can have it's source code hosted off site.
The article in question is HexEdit - Window Binary File Editor[^]
You may be right
I may be crazy
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Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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That is what I thought too. So lets see what the editors have to say about that.
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Hi PJ,
That is our policy but on occassion an author will submit an article with a source code larger than our upload limit (about 4.5 MB). We first look at the possibility of breaking up the file in some way, and if that isn't a viable option we resort to off-site hosting as in this case.
It's pretty rare, but we feel it's better for the Code Project community to be flexible.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project
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This[^] one has been hanging around for ages. It does not have an 'Approve' button and it's status is shown as pending. It has been like that for some time and no amount of Ctl-F5ing will help.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
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I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
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Fixed, thanks.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris, in case you didn't already notice - there still are a few tip/tricks with the same problem. The approve button seems to be missing only from alternates, top level tip/tricks are OK.
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I've recently written my first article on this website.
To my great content I got a couple of good votes (six 5's and four 4's I think).
More 5's than 4's and nothing lower than that anyway. Where I come from this would have an average of over 4.5.
On the CodeProject my average is 4.46... Still a very nice average, but not what I'd expect.
Is there anything I'm unaware of?
Not to make some shameless promotion for my article, but here it is:
Using Try... Catch..., Finally![^]
As you can see the average is not what it should be
It's an OO world.
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Naerling wrote: some 'more important/skilled' people voted 4 and some 'less important/skilled' people voted 5, making the 4's weigh more in the average than the 5's
Yep!
The basic idea is that when people show that they know what they are talking about, their reputation goes up.
When they vote something up (or down) it has a much bigger affect than the vote of someone who either is unknown, or who has shown themselves to talk rubbish!
Votes also affect your reputation to a lesser or greater extent: a High rep 5 can add 40 points to your rep, a Low rep 5 only a few.
This way malicious idiots can't ruin a hard-earned reputation too easily!
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Digital man: "You are, in short, an idiot with the IQ of an ant and the intellectual capacity of a hose pipe."
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Yep - that'd be spam.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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at least twice today. I updated my article early in the morning. After more than 10 hours I can still see previous versions of my article.
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When posting a using IE8, I see the first icon slightly below the second. It would be nice if the heads were aligned at the neck.
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And where would you like the '???' to be?
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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 League Table Link
CCC Link[ ^]
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Same place it currently is. I'm just saying that they should be aligned at the bottom on the middle.
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All at the end of the sentence. Unless you speak Spanish.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code.
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But you don't think with your chin....
I think they need a LOT more smilies than they currently have...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- "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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Sarcasm Smiley and Irony Smiley for sure!
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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 League Table Link
CCC Link[ ^]
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Dalek Dave wrote: Sarcasm Smiley
The Sarcicon! (I suggested it a while ago)
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Digital man: "You are, in short, an idiot with the IQ of an ant and the intellectual capacity of a hose pipe."
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: But you don't think with your chin....
But I do stroke my chin while I'm plotting thinking.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: But I do stroke my
I was hesitant to read beyond that part of your statement.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- "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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You read what you wanted to read cowboy!
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I think this icon should be replaced with a yellow circle with a question mark "inside" the circle instead of on top. It always looks like steam is rising from the brain to me.
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That's because of the size of the icon. I didn't want to push it all the way up and disrupt the line spacing.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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