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Hey Chris,
I just posted my 15th article to CP, so my Author Status on my profile page should now indicate that I'm "prolific." But it still says that I'm a "writer." I suppose both are true, but I'd rather it read "prolific." 
Thanks for any help!
:josh:
My WPF Blog[ ^]
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle
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Everything's updated each weekend. Until then you should refer to yourself as "Prolific, Pending" 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris how does that work though? (ok yes I am being very interested in CP lately) Would you not judge the level of a user (at least as displayed by the profile page) on the page itself?
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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No, we do a lot of pre-calculation and caching.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Would that have to do with the voting system? Or are there other factors that my shiny silver membership count towards?
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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We don't just count articles and messages posted, but the votes that have been tallied against them (and each vote's weight). It's a massive process that takes most of a day to complete.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Ok so you have some seriously complex stuff going on in bobs head. I am curious as to why you didn't go for a auto update approach, like set the SQL to update what is required automatically.
(tell me to shut up whenever)
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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Because that would trigger a large chunk of work each time an article, article vote, message or message vote was registered, and if there was a lot of action on a specific article, message or even just a member then everything would get bogged down.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Ok I wont ask you any more questions, you probably need to feed bob. I would have thought that a SQL call like:
[....]; UPDATE `usertable.tally` SET Votes = Votes+5 WHERE UID=xXxXxXxXx;
(very simplified version.)
But I don't know exactly how you guys do your thing so maybe something like that would slow it all down.
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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That bit's easy. It's the Calculate-average-weighted-score-of-all-messages-by-this-member type calculations that takes a bit longer.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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How do you structure votes? Do you have a column for each post that holds the average? If so Could you not just have SQL server add the collective up when the profile is viewed? I imagine that would not take too long.
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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Thanks Chris. I didn't realize it was cached.
:josh:
My WPF Blog[ ^]
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle
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Weekend or Overnight? I feel the update happens over the night. Isn't it?
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I don't know if this will happen, but I'm gonna try my luck on this anyway. 
Could we get a "Math" subcategory for the OpenGL and DirectX sections of articles? Or maybe, a separate one, that both camps can go to? Those sections really just have "General" that gets used and everything in the world gets thrown in there, but math is such an important concept in 3D graphics I would think it deserves its own subcategory.
I'm about to release an article regarding 3D math and it would be nice if both DX and OGL camps could get it as it really applies to both, but I'll settle for either/or understandably since what I'm after is math for 3D graphics and not a general math categorization so it would technically fit as a subcategory to the 3D APIs.
TIA for at least reading this far.
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Yeah, i wouldn't mind seeing that.
I pretty much can't find anything by browsing categories anymore, unless it's in a very specific, very lightly-populated category. Anything to make that slightly less frustrating is good. And 3D math is fun.
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Shog9 wrote: And 3D math is fun.
I have to agree. The artistic side of me loves to use computational mechanics like math and make a brand new world out of it. Yup, nothing like flying around blowing the brains out of aliens to bring people together I say. 
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Looking forward to that article.
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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I thought you were gone. Good to see you back.
"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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He is gone from the lounge.
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I thought you were gone. Good to see you back.
Thanks. I don't think I was all too clear with that *ahem* statement. I never did intend to stop using CP altogether. It's too great a resource. I just didn't want to be a part of the Lounge and SB community any more ya know.
My days of being a regular have been reverted to abusing gmail.
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Yes. Yes we can.
If you submit an article on those topics just make sure to mark them as being in the "Mathematics / Algorithms" subsection. Then one of the editors will (hopefully) create that new subsection within the section you're posting to.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Awesome. Here's a virtual ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) from me to you! And, uh, I didn't put anything in it. 
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It appears that email notifications about post replies are being sent in duplicate. This started happening (to me) an hour ago. I haven't set up any forwards and use a single email address.
/ravi
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Hey, it's double your pleasure.
Is there an echo in here.
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
I agree with you that my argument is useless. [Red Stateler]
Hey, I am part of a special bread, we are called smart people [Captain See Sharp]
The zen of the soapbox is hard to attain...[Jörgen Sigvardsson]
I wish I could remember what it was like to only have a short term memory.[David Kentley]
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Might be ECHO OFF was commented and looks like REM ECHO OFF.
I fondly recall the old batch file commands.
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