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First of all, this is the best site that I go to. I get more help from this site (trying to provide what my small amount of knowledge I have myself along the way) than from any other site I've been to. There's one suggestion I have that would make it easier in my opinion and allow for better help. Sometimes I'll start a thread and two or three people will respond, but none of them have the answer. When I'm looking for threads to answer to, I usually look for ones with 0-1 replies thinking that it must've been resolved already. So when some 2 or 3 people reply to my post I think that other programmers that do know the answer might assume that my problem must've been resolved because they see a few replies. I think there should be a way to mark a thread as 'Resolved' so that if it's not, I (or a better qualified programmer) will know that that person still needs help. People should still be able to answer the thread if they have something to add, but that way people who still need help won't get looked over.
I'm not the brightest programmer in the world, so this might not be the brightest idea in the world. Besides, I don't know how hard it would be to implement. Just thought I'd offer a suggestion to a site that has helped me so much.!!
[insert witty comment here]
bdiamond
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bdiamond wrote:
I think there should be a way to mark a thread as 'Resolved' so that if it's not, I (or a better qualified programmer) will know that that person still needs help.
While some people will use this mechanism - I think there are a lot of people who will just not mark their query as resolved because they are lazy or asked a question then disappeared or, most sadly, asked a question that is currently beyond their comprehension but refuse to admit it and want people to post source code without wanting to take the time to understand how it works.
It the mechanism were opened so that anyone could mark a thread as resolved then the system is open to abuse.
I hope I didn't sound too negative - I agree that it would be good to have some sort of mechanism so that resolved queries are so.
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him, for an investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -- Joseph E. O'Donnell
Can't manage to P/Invoke that Win32 API in .NET? Why not do interop the wiki way!
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understood, and I didn't take your response as negative. It's just that sometimes when that happens and I don't have my question answered in the least bit, I'd like others to know. (and I don't want to get in trouble for double-posting  ). Thanks for your reply.
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bdiamond
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bdiamond wrote:
I don't want to get in trouble for double-posting
Just wait a week in between posts. When you make the second attempt, you'll no doubt know more than you did the week before so the subject and body of the post will hopefully be a bit more fine-tuned than the first one. Make sense?
"When I was born I was so surprised that I didn't talk for a year and a half." - Gracie Allen
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yes it does, and thanks for your earlier help also!!!
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I've recently added some server-side SPAM control to my domain and I'm noticing that mail from CodeProject is being filtered out as SPAM.
One thing my server is now doing to marking mail as SPAM if the IP address the message was received from does not have a reverse DNS entry. If I receive a message from CodeProject.com (e.g. 209.171.52.99) its IP address cannot be used to get the name of the domain. This can be seen with ping:
ping -a 209.171.52.99
Anyway this can be changed to avoid CodeProject message from being flagged as SPAM?
Thanks -- Peter
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We've been working to get this fixed for a couple of weeks. I'll ping the relevant parties and see what's happening.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Sounds good, thanks.
-- Peter
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It's working again...
Thanks -- Peter
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Wow! CodeProject is the one e-zine I get that I actually read.
I am sure that many of us would be interested in a hearing a bit about how it actually happened - how you began CodeProject & the trials and tribulations. Perhaps a monthly column or newsletter ?
Thanks!
James C. Deen
http://www.WayCoolGear.com
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Well.... In the beginning there was a big bang....
Seriously, it has been posted somewhere before. I've just had a quick look and I can't find it just now. But to summarise: Chris used to work for CodeGuru but it got bought over by a company that was only interested in the profits generated by the revenues the site would bring and so CodeGuru began to suck. CodeProject was started originally as CodeTools until it was discovered there was another company with the same name, so it was renamed CodeProject. CodeProject has been steadily building up since and is now IMHO the best community driven developer web site for Microsoft development tools.
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him, for an investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -- Joseph E. O'Donnell
Can't manage to P/Invoke that Win32 API in .NET? Why not do interop the wiki way!
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I think a monthly column would be a good idea. A more detailed behind the scenes look at CodeProject would be nice, beyond what currently appears in the newsletter and has appeared in Chris's blog.
I doubt whether the CodeProject team would have time to do it, but it would be nice to see a joint column by the team as we all love a good war story and I'm sure we could all learn something from the trials and tribulations of running this site.
Some suggested titles,
* A day in the life of Chris Maunder.
* Editing articles on a slow internet connection by Nish
* Fixing Chris's bugs whilst he's away - by the rest of the team 
* How to keep one million users happy on a limited budget.
Michael
CP Blog [^]
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You're a bad man, Michael
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Michael P Butler wrote:
Some suggested titles,
* A day in the life of Chris Maunder.
* Editing articles on a slow internet connection by Nish
* Fixing Chris's bugs whilst he's away - by the rest of the team
* How to keep one million users happy on a limited budget
Before announcing publicly that Mr Maunder codes on Coco Pops, give me a chance to buy some Kelloggs shares will you?
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
Meg's World - Blog
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If I vote for the same message twice, I get a message saying I've already voted. It would be more helpful if the new vote would just override my older vote... occasionally I'll hit the wrong number by accident, or vote for the wrong message.
An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
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Yep - we'll definitely do this.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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If you're that shakey how can you be sure that you even know what you are voting for anyway?
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him, for an investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -- Joseph E. O'Donnell
Can't manage to P/Invoke that Win32 API in .NET? Why not do interop the wiki way!
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Does that matte`? It's important that you vote (or the t's have won or something like that) 
we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is Vonnegut jr.
sighist || Agile Programming | doxygen
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hi
we have job posting here in codeproject. but it is not sufficient compared with other sites.
i am not comparing any features here but we need to concentrate on more job posting.
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sreejith ss nair wrote:
but we need to concentrate on more job posting
Why? There are plenty of job sites out there already. CodeProject is better concentrating on its core competency which is articles about developing software and forums to ask questions about software development issues.
Whilst you could argue that jobs are a software development issue, I personally feel the facilities offered by CP are adequate.
Michael
CP Blog [^]
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Hope this is not a repost.
With the recent performance issues, it may work better if the forums where on a couple servers by themselves. Then if people started downloading a lot of articles, it would not effect the machines running the forums. This would make the forums stay more responsive.
For me, speed and reliability is required more in the forums than articles. When looking for an article it does not matter if I have to try a couple times, but if you are browsing through the forums, it can really discourage you on each page click.
In addition, there are the times when you are posting a message and the server dies where you may or may not be able to get back to your post to resubmit it.
Rocky <><
www.HintsAndTips.com
www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com
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hi ,
i am regularly using codeproject for past six months.and i have experience with other forum sits also. acording to me this is beat and have nice performace(comapring other sites).
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I'm sure this has been posted by others, but just in case,
We (like a lot of others, I'm sure) have a intranet at home where all our machines look like the same ip address to fool our ISP. However, CP won't allow Tom and I to work independently in terms of voting and such. Will this always be that way or are there changes in mind for letting programming couples work independently?
Krista
"Who doesn't bend before the wind is mighty apt to break."
Author Unknown
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