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oops, I thought it was a shortcut to the forum 
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1. that you (at least the person who submitted the article) can see how many times a copy of your stuff has been downloaded. I say this because I know that even I (yes, me) forget to rate an article or leave a comment, even though I download the source code that usually tends to help me a lot. It's great to know I've got a good rating on an article, but it would really make me feel good and want to write the next article if I saw that x amount of people have actually downloaded it.
2. (not sure how the math behind this would go). A way to rate an article again. For instance, I see an article with a nice concept and not enough source code - I rate it a 3. A week later because of comments pertaining to lack of source code, the author updates it with great source code and explanations for all - the rating in my head is now a 4, but I can't change it.
Just my 1.39 cents. How does anyone else feel?
-- moved by ed. at 17:48 Tuesday 1st August, 2006
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BlackDice wrote: A way to rate an article again.
I think that's a great idea!
PS: Better to post site suggestions here[^].
/ravi
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Both will be done.
#1 is tricky because we don't have an easy way to backdate prior download info. We can do it but with roughly 50Gb of logs per month for 6 years it will take about 3,761 years to process in order to get an accurate count. Or we could just take a wild guess for those articles already up 
#2 is easy.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Great, Chris. Thanks!!
BTW, where did you come up with the number 3,761?
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You can guess
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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it's called a WAG...
"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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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: WAG...
The abbreviation WAG, to me, means Wives and Girlfriends. However, it doesn't really fit in this context.
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Wild Ass Guess is my WAG.
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book,
only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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Chris, is it generally acceptable to link the source & demo ZIP from your own domain if you want to see the number of downloads?
"Nothing ever changes by staying the same." - David Brent (BBC's The Office) ~ ScrollingGrid: A cross-browser freeze-header control for the ASP.NET DataGrid
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No, because almost 100% of all outside links to downloads that we've had on CodeProject break within 6 months. We require all articles to provide a local download so that no matter what happens a version of the download is always available.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Of course now we're all dying to know whether there's actually a formula used to generate that number, or if you just scribbled some bogus numbers on a napkin and multiplied...
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I think both of these would be very useful. #2 especially - I have seen authors improve their articles, and I could not upgrade the vote I gave.
For #1, it would be useful even if you started the count from 0 today, for all articles. Maybe at some future time, when you've added more servers, and CP is just too fast, you can run your log-diving batch and get the true count.
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And you'd only spend 3.761 years tweaking the script... 
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??? - I'm still bugging you!! 
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Dang.. I replied to you in the lounge and it got moved... lost my post 
Oh well summary of it was: #1 has been suggested here before & would definitely be a great feature so you can kind of gauge how useful your code actually is.
"Nothing ever changes by staying the same." - David Brent (BBC's The Office) ~ ScrollingGrid: A cross-browser freeze-header control for the ASP.NET DataGrid
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And the reply didn't chase the moving thread? 
Hmmmm...Sorry about that.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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BlackDice wrote: the rating in my head is now a 4, but I can't change it.
True. As the articles mature into versions, there should be a provision to have the Votes/Ratings should be reset (optionally) for next updates.
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: there should be a provision to have the Votes/Ratings should be reset (optionally) for next updates
If we do this then we'll have people sending in trivial updates each time they feel their article is being rated too low.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I think that it would be great if CP had a section which consisted of lists of blogs authored by CPians. Since many of us have blogs that we'd like to share with others, it would be 'nice' if we could somehow share links to our blogs with each other here on CP. Perhaps break up the category, such as 'ASP.NET Blogs', 'WinFx Blogs' etc.
Maybe there would be some minimum criteria to have your blog be rolled, such as you must have submitted at least 3 or 5 articles on CP in the past year, just to keep people from joining CP in order to add their blog to the rolls.
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I think you should add PHP to the list of languages in the member profile stuff.
"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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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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as much as Fortran ? 
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Since PHP is still a marketable skill, I think it belongs in the list just as much as Perl does.
"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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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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Noticed on the snazzy new green menu bar that I have an extra "e" just to the right of the word "Lounge". If I click it, it sends me to the Lounge.
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS running Firefox 1.5.0.5 at 1024x768
This extra "e" does not display on Windows XP running IE7 B3 at 1280x1024
"The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass." - Martin Mull
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