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Quote: A best article award isn't always a guarantee of quality
 i like this.
Born To Learn
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Oscars, anyone?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You know, I have wondered about some of the articles and how they won but I have to tell you as an infrequent, somewhat lazy visitor, I tend to want to take for gospel that an article I pull up that has won something will of course be a good and noteworthy article. That the content will be good and it's guidance in coding or whatever worthy of using in something I am working on.
This is a little unnerving to think that an article can make it past some sort of check or double-check system? Maybe you don't have that in place? Sad to think that just because votes drive the winner that a bad article can win prizes and praise? It's not really that simple is it? I do have enough discernment to not take an article and just use it's suggestions if it doesn't sound right to me but there has to be quality assurance at some level. Sure takes away from the credibility of the site in my mind at some level. I mean the overarching idea is to guide and teach people right. Maybe change the award to most popular or something may be more appropriate in some cases. Thanks.
vbmike
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There was a certain historical trend in play until quite recently. Basically, there was a weighting put in to the votes so that a small number of downvotes could be ignored if there were an overwhelming number of good votes. The algorithm here has been tweaked so that the sites heavy hitters votes aren't as easily filtered out so, if you get 100 low rep people voting 5 for an article and 5 of the site "superstars" voting 1 then the average would be dragged down appropriately.
As the popularity of an article is the indicator of which articles make it into the competition, this means that there has been a certain correction put in place now to remove the worst excesses from the voting process.
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To addition - it happened that a 'best article' was plagiarised, but we found it only months after...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Thank you
Born To Learn
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Until a few hours ago I could click on the header "Latest Articles" (on the home page) and get the option to switch to "Latest Blog Posts" - now that's gone missing. By design or bug?
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Design. They have been combined.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Ah, good - found that a bit confusing anyway before I got used to it 
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I like the auto pull feature for blog feeds, but its actually pulling all articles, not only those that say "codeproject" as a keyword/tag
did I miss something? or is it actually a bug?
so for the moment I can't blog about my cat  unless you guys want some cat articles here
thanks!
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That is mysterious. Are you sure you haven't checked the box that says "Consume all entries" when you set up your blog on CodeProject? That might do it.
If not, please remove the CodeProject category tags from your feed, and try using only rel-tags from now on, and we'll see how that works:
Code Project Technical Blog FAQ[^]
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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I just checked, I can't find "Consume all entries" anywhere.
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Must be on my end only. Please try that rel-tag approach I mentioned then. Delete all category tags with CodeProject in them as well.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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When submitting an article selecting the section "Client side scripting", the subsection "JacaScript" is sometimes available, and sometimes not! Isn't this a bug?
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Instead of adding download links to the body of the article, wouldn't it be better to put the links in the panel on the left side? I see it as an exandable tree item, like so:
Rolled up:
+Downloads
Expanded:
-Downloads
Article Name.HTML
File1.Zip
File2.zip
. . .
File5.zip
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I've been noodling with this and a major problem as I see it is space.
There's not enough space on the left hand side to show article filenames or explanations.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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If there's room for one item, it could be "Downloads" which would show a pop-up window with a list of available files related to the article in a checklistbox.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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A UI for something as important as downloads shouldn't be hidden within a popup.
I'm not sure what problem you're trying to solve - what's broken that needs fixing?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: I'm not sure what problem you're trying to solve - what's broken that needs
fixing?
It's not really broken. I was just thinking that if an article-related file is uploaded, the article page itself should support downloading the file instead of putting a link inside the article body (which could accidently get deleted during a subsequent edit). In essence, it should be treated like "Browse Code" is, because code browsing actually uses the uploaded source code. Why does the article's body have to have a link do download the very same file that "Browse Code" already knows about?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Or, you could put it on the right side as the first item...
Or, put related articles on the right side to make room for "Download" on the left (above "Tagged as"), and make "Tagged as" a hoverable item.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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On this article: Converting Text Numbers to Numeric Values[^]
I uploaded the associated ZIP file, butI can't find a link to download it...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John, I added the files to your article. You should be good to go now.
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Did I do something wrong when I submitted the article? They used to be added automatically, and I never gave it a second thought.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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There's a link at the side (above the listed files). If you check the checkboxes of the files you want to attach, and click this link (it says something like "include files in article"), this will include the relevant files.
I seem to remember that the files used to be added automatically but I no longer use the article wizard. I prefer to send my article over whole.
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Hello codeproject-community,
in my company, internet access is only permitted via a proxy server that controls which URLs are allowed to access and which are not.
I'm lucky that codeproject is allowed! 
But every now and then, I come across an interesting article on codeproject that contains images embedded from an external source, which is forbidden by our proxy.
This could make the article quite useless and it requires me to view it on my private PC at home.
So, I kindly ask all the codeproject authors to upload all their images to codeproject, which makes it easier for me (and maybe lots of other readers) to view the articles in their company environment.
It'll also help to keep the articles readable over time as external links may change or break.
Maybe codeproject could also show a warning, if somebody wants to add an "external image" to an article!
Thank you very much!
Max
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