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All this new styling makes me wonder (although this may already have beeen requested before) - can CP be made "skinnable"? Nothing heavy - just a few simple light skins.
It will keep things new for the "regular" visitors.
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Woho don't go suggesting to chance the orange on CP, Chris will send team after team of ninja hamsters after you if you do that
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highly trained ninja hamsters.
Unlike the last lot who ended up getting lost. You can't find good help these days.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: Unlike the last lot who ended up getting lost.
Well you did set them up with bing maps. So it's mostly your fault I guess 
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Chris Maunder wrote: highly trained ninja hamsters.
Who needs skins.
Orange is suddenly my favourite color - go Orange. 
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They tasted delicious. Could you please send some more? I've run out.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx
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The new layout and look and feel of CodeProject is really awesome. One thing came in my mind that My Settings link is not at the right place. because in that we have mainly put the content/different sections about the CP content and My Settings is user settings. So better if we can put thus somewhere else. Might be at earlier place or somewhere in side panel.
What say?
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I have an idea.
Give me a bit to play around. I think it will make sense.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Ok. Will wait for that
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Chris Maunder wrote: I have an idea.
Give me a bit to play around. I think it will make sense.
I would like to suggest "My Settings" menu in place of "Lounge" and "Lounge" can be moved to either of below.
1. in between "Features" and "Help!" as main menu
2. in "Features" as sub menu.
What you say?
Knock out 't' from can't,
You can if you think you can. 
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What about now?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I don't know about them, but I like it...
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I like it too. 
I guess it was suggested by a guy with a gun in his hands. 
EDIT ON
The S in 'My Watched Items' cuts a bit. You need to move it a little left.
Another UI issue - noticed that after voting the voting result div shows up but is out of the site border.
EDIT OFF
..Go Green..
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Chris Maunder wrote: What about now?
Looks good for me.
Knock out 't' from can't,
You can if you think you can.
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Looks better
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How about My Settings between your username and Sign out in the top bar.
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I think this would be more user friendly..
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eg A Simple Pie Chart Control - Improved 3-D Pie Chart -2[^]
I'm making no criticism of the original article here - it looks like great stuff, well written, with nice diagrams.
But I think it will cause confusion if you are browsing for a (eg) pie chart. Article 2 has more votes that Article 3. So, Bob User comes along, and picks the best voted pie chart. He is now missing out on all the wondrous improvements.
If I have Article 2 bookmarked to follow, I won't see that there's been any improvements...
I can't think of any author's who I follow that make new articles instead of updating.
It also can work as Reputation Gaming, but I doubt that's the motive in the example I'm picking on.
I'm not sure how to prevent this from happening without being draconion. Maybe we need some famous Aussie Diplomacy? Or use the JSOP approach?
Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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This is a long standing issue - not so much about authors standing on the shoulders of prior, greater authors, but with great articles getting long in the tooth and other articles appearing through necessity.
We're going to work on improving the article system to allow addendas instead of complete new articles. This will have to be handled delicately, but I have a big motivation with wanting to hand off my 100+ articles to those who would like to carry on the legacy. There's no point in a new article if the new code contains improvements or alternatives on the given article.
As to this particular article: the author was careful to reference, in the first line, the previous works.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Agreed!
I'm deleting this new article and I'm sending the content and the downloads (demo/src files) to codeproject to update my original article.
Thanks Iain for pointing out this!
Prasad.
PrasadSR
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cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer wrote: I can't think of any author's who I follow that make new articles instead of updating.
[Ahem]
I had to make this choice recently when I went to upload my article XCrashReport: Exception Handling and Crash Reporting for Win32/64 - Part 5[^]
I had made massive changes to the codebase in addition to porting to VS2008, but I didn't want to discard the VS6 version because I know that some people still use it. Also, it would make the article a mess to read, if I had to continually say, "Now in VS6.." or "Now in VS2008...".
So I created a new article.
In general, I agree with what you're saying, and with many of my articles you can see the revision history, all with the same article; it's an iterative set of improvements.
However, if this would cause confusion or decreased clarity or just make things too damn complicated in the article, I wouldn't hesitate for a second to create a new article.
The way I would put it is, authors should be encouraged not to write a new article with each new version, with maybe some nudging by CP editors, but in the end it's their call.
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I agree with you 100%. In your case, this wasn't simply a "here's some improvements and bugfixes", more a "here a new set of code working in a different way for essentially a different OS".
In the case of the article I referenced above, it was very much a bugfix and minor (codewise) changes. It was well written, and showed a good progression, so I hope he keeps at least some of the new story in the updated article.
I tried to be delicate - I certainly don't want to contribute to an atmosphere hostile to authors posting good articles. Or even medium ones - my later articles were of better quality than my earlier ones...
So, everyone is happy. Hurrah!
Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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In the survey results, there are currently 9 optional text answers, but only 7 people voted "other". How comes? It looks like it is possible to choose one of the given answers, but nevertheless give an optional text answer. Can't verify this, since I already voted.
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)
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Yes, it is possible in this survey to add a text answer on top of a preselected option
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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