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Just to confirm, are you reporting the movie images?

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Sean Ewington
CodeProject

yes, as you told in other message

Is it wrong?

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This is a very weird case. It's almost meta. It looks like he's making a movie review website, and taking screenshots of his movie reviews. There are different allowances (I believe) for using images on movie review sites, but this is simply an image of a movie review site and does not contain actually movie criticism. Still ...

This may be too complicated to call definitely from my chair.

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Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Sean Ewington wrote:
This may be too complicated to call definitely from my chair.

Noone said it was going to be easy. Actually tough ones are exactly the ones where I don't say anything to the user. If it is a easy one I try it myself.

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This one is one is a difficult one.

I like the article and the images are kinda needed for the explanation, but I think they are copyright of the arcade games company, and the 50 years are not over yet.

http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=181719&aid=998595[^]

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MAME alone is a tricky legal issue, I am not qualified to make an accurate final ruling, but as you say the article does not work without the images so we'll leave it for now.

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Sean Ewington
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Is there any other CP-Staff Member that is deeper in such thema?

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Yes and no. So I took the cans of worms to our lawyers who gave us more cans and more worms and some thinking and discussing to do internally. So for now please sit tight. We will arrive at a conclusion in due course.

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Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Sean Ewington wrote:
So for now please sit tight

Meaning I should give you a brake? Or should I continue pointing out what I find?

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You can still poke around but no actions will occur until our discussions and policies are in place.

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Sean Ewington
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Ok... I'll make a list.

Anyways I am going away for 5 weeks (working in another continent) so my availability will be quite reduced.

See you around

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According to a message in the B&S Forum about copyright of images...

@Sean-ewington can you please check this[^]? Is such allowed? or better to contact the user?

It might be not the last one that I post.. how do you prefer o be done? Posting it here or something else?

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If digital ocean and its services weren't mentioned so much and linked to, then maybe. Bower seems harmless. But unfortunately we've had too much abuse of community reviews and we've had to crack down on them. The article has been removed.

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Sean Ewington
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And the way of procedure?

Post here summoning you, so you can have a look?
or better in Abuse report forum and let the guys decide?

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Hmmm. These are case by case. I usually need to take a look. So either here or fire me an email?

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Sean Ewington
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OK

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I'm getting the following HTML for each Formatted/C# section when I preview the article:

HTML

<font color="#0000ff" face="Consolas" size="2"><font color="#0000ff" face="Consolas" size="2"><font color="#0000ff" face="Consolas" size="2">using</font>

Any thoughts?

I'd be happy to help. Are you pasting from something?

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Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Sure - can you see my article? I only have one in my account.

Yup I can see it. I could certainly fix it, but I need to know how you created it to figure out how to avoid it happening again.

Or if it is just painful overall you could send the article to me and I could format it for you.

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Sean Ewington
CodeProject

I'd like to know how to fix it for future articles.

I copied/pasted the code from Visual Studio 2013 Premium. Then I highlighted the code and changed it to Formatted/C#. When I previewed it I got the results in my initial post.

Hi Sean,
I figured it out - apparently doing the copy/paste from Visual Studio was embedding formatting into the article. If I save the code in Notepad first and then copy/paste from there I can format the code with Formatted/C# in the wizard and it displays properly.

Thanks for your help!
Paul

I was just about to say the same thing. Apologies. I thought I had already! Please let me know if you have any more troubles.

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Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Hello everybody,

I'm new here, so I hope I post this message at the right place (I hesitate between here and 'The Lounge', but as this message is about writing articles...).

First of all, sorry for my faulty English, but I'm French...

I'm a long time passionated professional developer, mainly in C++. Beside proprietary software I develop for my clients, I'm also working on some free software (AGLP licensed) that I present on my (non-commercial) web site (http://q37.info/). There are mostly some command-line tools (http://q37.info/computing/epeios/tools/), although I begun to work on the development of applications with graphical UI (http://q37.info/computing/epeios/apps/). Most of my software works under Windows, OS X, and GNU/Linux (and probably other POSIX-compliant OSes), natively on IA-32, AMD64 and ARM compatible architectures.

My software are based on a a self-developed (alas undocumented) framework called Epeios, which is mainly based on system libraries. Although it's a C++ framework, it does not even use the STL (this library wasn't usable at the time I begun working with C++), but it includes somewhat equivalent functionalities.

My goal is not to promote this framework (will be useless, as it's not documented), but it contains some (I hope) useful functionalities. For example, when I write a command-line tool, I don't need to write a single line of code dedicated to the handling of command-line arguments, as the framework is responsible for this (a little bit more about his at http://q37.info/computing/epeios/tools/configuration/). So, I wonder if a detailed description, for example, on how this (or other functionalities from this framework you may find interesting) works, illustrated with code samples from the framework, and with, as examples, some (already available) freely downloadable software which implements this functionality, will be a good candidate for an article on your site.

Due to my faulty English, and because I'm new here and so not familiar with the writing of such an article, I will naturally need some help, but I will be very pleased to share my passion for the development with other developers...

Regards,

Claude SIMON.

I wrote a couple of articles on the Healthcare.gov software
development disaster, and I'm looking for advice on the best way to
submit them to CodeProject.

I did three months of research, interviewing developers and
whistleblowers, and reviewing numerous media reports. I'm not a
mainstream journalist, but I was a tech journalist for years, as well
as being a senior software engineer. As far as I know, I'm the only
journalist who has done such a thorough technical review of what
happened.

The first article is a journalistic treatment:

** Healthcare.gov -- The greatest software development disaster in history
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ww2010.i.hcgov150823.htm

The second article contains "lessons learned" for managing software
development projects, and dealing with project stakeholders who either
are incompetent or who actually try to sabotage the project. This
article is targeted to managers, researchers, and academics, and
contains a lot of technical information that would be useful to both
programmers and managers:

** For academics: Dysfunction, subversion, sabotage and fraud in software development projects
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ww2010.i.academic150823.htm

The following is my daily World View column, which summarizes the
above two articles:

** 23-Aug-15 World View -- Fraud and subversion in Healthcare.gov - the greatest IT disaster in history
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/xct.gd.e150823.htm#e150823

I would appreciate any advice on the best way to submit these
articles to CodeProject.

Thanks.

John J. Xenakis
john@jxenakis.com
john@generationaldynamics.com