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It looks like we may have tracked the problem down. A server started playing up a few days ago and over the last couple of days has been getting worse and worse. This morning it finally died and has been removed from the cluster.
If you see the issue again please let me know immediately. Email me so I can get a local time datestamp.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Might have been before the server died, but it looks like this happened to somebody else while posting an article. They posted this in the Lounge:
Tomz_KV wrote: I tried to submit an new article. The uploads for images were ok. But I could not submit the article. After finishing composing it, click publish button, a blank page came out. I waited for a while but no change. I tried to view the article but no content in it. I lost all the content entered (images are stitll there). I re-compose the article (editing mood this time), but lost again after submission. I was not smart enough to save the html on my machine. Before I am going to try for the third time, I post a message here to see if anyone else notice the problem. It could be just me. Thanks,
I would have just linked to it, but the message was deleted by the OP. You can find it here.
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This was also happening to me. It just happened like 4 hours ago while I was trying to update a still unpublished article. I was feeling that the site was a bit unstable, so before clicking submit I had copied the contents of the article to the clipboard. The best decision I could have made, since I ended up in a blank page. I don't know if its related to this dead server, but the article submission wizard has been a bit unstable at least for me.
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You would have posted right on the time a database backup was being done. How soon after you saw the problem did you post your message? I'll check the logs for exactly that time to see if anything showed up.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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By the way, for the last 10 minutes I was trying to post a new (longish) message here on the bugs forum (http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/3589255/Submission-dates.aspx) but in about 5 attempts all I got was a blank page...
Cheers,
César
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Please let me know if you see this again.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris,
I just got slapped by a user for politely asking him not to cross post. Fair enough i can take it. 
http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/3587027/Re-Settimeout-problem.aspx[^]
It then dawned on me that the forum in question has only the "How to answer" sticky, and not the "how to ask a question" one, i checked some of the other programming forums and they are the same.
Think the forums need checking to make sure they have the 2 relevant "How to" sticky messages at the top of each of them.
[Edit: I notice the Java Forum has a combined "Forum Guidelines" sticky, this would be good to have as a standard across the programming forums]
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What a stonkingly good idea.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: I have CDO, it's OCD with the letters in the right order; just as they ruddy well should be
I have COD, on the PS3. Also, I am not a fan of COD and chips, prefer haddock if i have to eat fish!
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You Call On the Doctor, Cash On Demand?
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Added to the web dev forum - thanks
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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My answer here[^] shows a vote of 5 but also status of deleted. Since I did not delete it I wonder can I discover who did, and perhaps aske them why?
It's time for a new signature.
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Mine shows as deleted too. Most likely, the question (along with the answers) was deleted, or so I would guess. People who ask questions sometimes do this because they have their answer and don't want their question to be on display anymore. Or maybe somebody thought the question was dumb so they deleted it. In any event, the question should probably not have been deleted.
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a simple experiment led me to believe an enquirer (author of the original question) can delete any answer; such power however might be reserved to people of sufficient colorfulness and repute, I can't check that easily.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: colorfulness
DaveIf this helped, please vote & accept answer!
Binging is like googling, it just feels dirtier.
Please take your VB.NET out of our nice case sensitive forum.(Pete O'Hanlon)
BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)
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If the question is deleted, then all answers are marked as deleted to. Otherwise they appear in lists but are inaccessible.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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The quesion was deleted, so all of the answers were, too.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"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." - J. Jystad, 2001
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This is driving me round the twist - I try to tell a questioner what to replace < and > with in a question, so the HTML doesn't swallow code, and what happens? The HTML anti-swallower swallows the sequence "<" and replaces it with < - which is what I was trying to avoid, and it ends up looking as if I am sugesting replacing '<' with '<'. It doesn't do it here! So why it is playing silly buggers over there? And please, can we have "proper" editing on comments? Smileys, <, >, code block, and so on? Pretty please? With sugar on?
I feel better now... 
[edit]I should have mentioned this is in a comment to a question, not an answer.[/edit]
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
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I have noticed similar weirdness using Chrome. Sometimes when I paste a link it gets interpreted and converted to a proper anchor element, at other times it just gets pasted as is. General interpretation of tags seems to change from day to day and hour to hour. I suspect one of the hamsters has gone critical. 
It's time for a new signature.
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I've just cranked up the priority of the "allow HTML in comments" task.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hi there,
I am trying to insert and image in an article that i m writing for codeproject but i felt difficulty to do that.
Please make good editor, may many people just avoid to write on codeproject because of your word editor.
Thank you
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Just follow this and you can't go wrong!
Code Project Article FAQ[^]
There is an article editor written by one of the user, can't find a link to it though......
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1.
When you use the Article Wizard, you get a page that allows you to upload files; you could use that for code files (a ZIP holding the sources) as well as image files; it automatically offers you the correct HTML snippet for including each image.
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You don't have to create an article inside the wizard's editor, in fact I recommend you create the article on your PC, using local storage, so nothing gets lost when your connection (or the CP site) suddenly breaks down. Use the web-based editor only for final touches!
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If you like, you can use any free HTML editor (such as Visual Web Developer) and email the article with the associated files (images, ZIP's, etc) to Code Project. They'll post the article for you without you ever having to touch their editor.
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