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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
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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.
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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 <><
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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."
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The error message states something along the lines of "You can't vote twice from the same IP address"
Krista
"Who doesn't bend before the wind is mighty apt to break."
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Ah, ok, I didn't know that the server looked at the IP address as well as the account. That's probably done to prevent one idiot from making dozens of accounts just to vote something up/down.
When you set up a private internal network, all data going outside the network appears to come from the same IP address. That's just how NAT* works. The CP server can't know that VoteA and VoteB came from different computers on someone's private network.
*Network Address Translation
--Mike--
Personal stuff:: Ericahist | Homepage
Shareware stuff:: 1ClickPicGrabber | RightClick-Encrypt
CP stuff:: CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | C++ Forum FAQ
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Laugh it up, fuzzball.
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Michael Dunn wrote:
When you set up a private internal network, all data going outside the network appears to come from the same IP address. That's just how NAT* works.
I know. We set it up 
I just have a problem with the fact that in order to deter the minority that are acting incorrectly, the rest of us have to suffer.
Krista
"Who doesn't bend before the wind is mighty apt to break."
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Krista Crawley-Archer wrote:
I know. We set it up
heh. Since I don't know you, I didn't know how techy I could be in my explanation. 
Krista Crawley-Archer wrote:
I just have a problem with the fact that in order to deter the minority that are acting incorrectly, the rest of us have to suffer.
That's pretty much how it is on any moderately-sized forum/newsgroup that is free and accessible to anyone, no? A handful of idiots can easily ruin it for the whole group.
--Mike--
Personal stuff:: Ericahist | Homepage
Shareware stuff:: 1ClickPicGrabber | RightClick-Encrypt
CP stuff:: CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | C++ Forum FAQ
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I'd buy that for a dollar!
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Michael Dunn wrote:
heh. Since I don't know you, I didn't know how techy I could be in my explanation.
No problem Tom's mentioned you several times so I thought I'd just mess with you a bit.
By the way, I ran the data operations center at Data General for 15 years before retiring to a leisurely life of hospital visits and nurses
Michael Dunn wrote:
A handful of idiots can easily ruin it for the whole group.
Yeah. Bummer I guess, but it's reality. Oh well. Thanks for the responses.
Krista
"Who doesn't bend before the wind is mighty apt to break."
Author Unknown
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What about people in a large organization, behind a firewall? The first person who votes is the only one who get's a say?
Seems unrealistically limited if you want accurate voting.
-- Peter
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The current message is "You have already voted for this message." and does not occur if I try and vote from another account from the same machine (i.e. with the same IP address regardless of NAT/firewall).
Do you still have this problem?
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I should also mention that Tom and I are two completely different boxes and - shocking as it is for husband and wife - sometimes we have different opinions and want to vote differently
Krista
"Who doesn't bend before the wind is mighty apt to break."
Author Unknown
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