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can you please send a screenshot to webmaster@...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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The last newsletter in the archive is from March 2006. Is there another place to find the latest newsletters?
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No, and I feel bad about it. I'll try and get it updated this week
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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If I click the 'My Articles' link, and then refresh the page (IE6), when the page reloads all of my articles are listed under the 'Active Directory' category. I've never written about 'Active Directory.' 
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It seems to be an intermittent bug. Occasionally I see the same and then a few hours later it is back to normal.
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Seems good to me. Is it still happening for you?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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No, not now. As Colin pointed out, this seems to be an intermittent bug (the worst of them all!). Once in a while when I load that page for the first time (not a refresh) it will come up with Active Directory for all articles. No biggie, just a quirk I notice now and again.
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I just submitted an article via the submission wizard. I selected values for the various categories (such as the language, platform, etc.). I later modified the article, via the wizard, and those settings were set to the default values. Is that supposed to happen? And, no matter how hard I try, I cannot get "Win32" to drop off the list of technologies at the top of my article. Here's the article url, in case that helps: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/PipingValueConverters_WPF.asp[^]. I use IE6 for a browser.
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Yes - this is a known bug. Not 100% sure what's going on here. (except the win32 - that's a default attribute that should probably, well, not be default)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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It would be better if codeproject remembered the last visited page instead of redirecting you to the homepage every time you login...
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I agree. In fact, the frustrations associated with logging in are one of the big things that keep me from ever logging out.
Wait... 
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Where's an innocent whistling icon when you need it...
Seriously, though, it bites. I know it does. Part of the reason it's broken is because of query string parameter confusion from legacy issues in merging some modules within the site. I will have another go at untangling those wires.
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I am wondering if anyone has considered adding a search on members for country, interests, etc.
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I noticed that there are no adds showing up anymore 
you might want that one fixed...
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Are you blocking certain sites? Our ads are now being served from a professional 3rd party ad server (saves us continuing to develop ours in-house, plus saves us a ton on bandwidth costs). That may be causing some weirdness.
Want us to switch it back? :P
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I guess our office proxy is blocking the ad server that is why i dont see any ads on my pages either. 
-Prakash
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True. I am experiencing the same issue as well.
The page just loads with white blocks all over the places where ads are hosted.
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I don't know if this has been suggested before but this would be invaluable.
I used some code from a CP article in a commercial application and it crashed after 6 months of use (don't you love it when that happens  ) then i found the problem and went back to the article to report it and guess what it was already reported and fixed 3 months back.
So a Recieve article update notifications link on articles would be awesome 
My sins are bloody red, my coffee is a black hole.
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Yes, I totally agree. In fact, this has just made it to the top of my "Things-I-would-like-to-see-changed-on-CodeProject" list.
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OMG. That is so wierd. I was just going to the suggestion forum to make this exact suggestion!
Marc
XPressTierSome people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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This is on the TODO list and has been forever. The issue is we have a lot of members. A lot, so we need a system that will run send emails off to the thousands of subscribers as a background process, and not as part of the actual upgrade process.
I'm thinking out loud here. Chime in whenever you want.
So - an article is updated, an entry is made in a queue that specifies the article ID, and then a service, running constantly in the background, polls the queue, grabs each entry as it sees them, gets the list of members who subscribed to that article, creates an email and fires it off to each member.
That sounds easy.
Now what if the service, the server or our network connection breaks in the middle of sending those 20,000 emails? Do we track who the emails were sent to then pick up where we left off? If so, what's the most space and time efficient method? What if we end up with a situation where we have so many subscribers and article updates in a given period that the service can't keep up with the queue and starts falling more and more behind? Do we cut the cord or design a system that is clustered? If clustered, how to we coordinate each service on each machine so they only handle part of the load and don't steal each other's recipients?
Any thoughts? I want this service as much as you guys but it's been relegated while we work on, well, everything else. Any shortcuts we get might help bump it up the list.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Maybe I am totally out in left field on this one, but seeing how all the updated articles are already listed in the weekly newsletter, would it not be possible to somehow flag the article in the newsletter for each user who is subscribed to the article? At least then you do not have to send out anymore emails then you already do. You already customize each newsletter by letting users pick the format and sections they want to see, so would a little more processing be too much work?
You may be right
I may be crazy
-- Billy Joel --
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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Love it!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I would say this sounds like the best idea so far...Sending an email every time a visited article is updated could be potintialy huge if someone has been here for a few years...and doing it for every member, it could turn into a nightmare.
Pablo
www.aes4you.com
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