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My issue with splitting articles into HowTos and WalkThroughs is that it'll never end. We'll need a category for Interview questions, Backgrounders, Components, Framework Intros etc etc. These are all articles. They all provide (except for interview questions, which personally I dislike) a discussion and education on a topic.
A Tip/Trick is meant to be a super-short "If you need to accomplish X, do Y". Wham, bam, thank you ma'am.
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Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: It's not about the length of the article or tip. It's about the intent.
Chris Maunder wrote: A Tip/Trick is meant to be a super-short "If you need to accomplish X, do Y". Wham, bam, thank you ma'am.
Make up your mind will you. 
Anyway, I prefer your first definition.
I'm not really proposing more categories, I'm proposing a name change.
"If you need to accomplish X, do Y": That's a Howto.
I personally don't find that the plethora of walkthroughs we get as articles today qualify as articles. My 2c.
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If it is we should keep reporting them, if not those with Protector status can just remove them on sight.
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Articles go through moderation by default. So you can remove them if you are 100% sure it is Spam (e.g. Health,Baba etc). I talked to Admins on this. (AFAIK) Spam filter has nothing to do in case of Articles. Let's wait for Admins to respond.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning
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I delete them manually when I see it is still alive with 10+ reports.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The spam filter isn't being used on articles this very second - but that can change. Reporting them is not a bad thing since it means we can always go back and re-train the spam detector when we turn it back on.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Then I'll keep on reporting and follow Neleks example on removing.
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Thank you, Jörgen. Your help in reporting and stamping out spam makes a difference.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Is it a problem to delete them when cache problems or so (report counter bigger than 10)?
Or better be patient and leave them alive until system nuke them?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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At the end of each year I think it would be incredibly valuable to the community on Code Project if Code Project Collated all their Articles and those Articles' Code if {Applicable : Available} into one Downloadable File for a fee if necessary ($64.00 - and this money can be used to assist in funding the site)... Convert the HTML files into either an Open and Free Office Suite, PDF, or Something Else.
Have the Files sorted by their Programming Language.
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Sorry, but it's not going to happen. The costs involved wouldn't be recovered, morally we'd have to talk to all authors of all articles to get their blessing, the demand simply would not be there given that you'd be asking someone to pay for what's already available for free, but the overwhelming issue is that articles live and grow. A snapshot means you don't get the latest updates, the latest comments, suggestions and bug fixes from the community, nor up to date ratings that help sort the wheat from the chaff.
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Chris Maunder
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Thanks for the response and talking about the logistics involved in such an endeavor.
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That would make CodeProject lose their honor of free service because they would be selling their content at the end of the year, which can be read freely. This is one of the reasons I despise one service, SSWUG, they ask for a membership, but they are on the right path because they also pay their authors so asking for payments is not a bad thing.
The way I may have put it, would be to allow the articles of a category to be downloaded (no payments). The way CodeProject already has a "framework"-based learning portal. For example, for Android: Learn Android - CodeProject[^]. CodeProject can generate a link to create the PDF for the available content, like the best articles.
But putting a cost would be a bad UX for CodeProject and I am sure CodeProject won't like that to happen.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Plus SSL improves Google search results ranking (AFAIK).
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Just waiting for some backend updates and then we can do this. It's on our radar too.
[Update: Load balancer issues are the only thing stopping us at this point. We may need to switch to more powerful boxes to handle the load]
cheers
Chris Maunder
modified 7-Mar-16 10:02am.
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Maybe you're already working on it: Though SSL is enabled, some resources are still loaded via an http:// URL which is why FireFox shows a warning on the SSL-symbol.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Is done.
Was way, way more painful than it should have been.
We're still watching the servers and appliances to ensure the load is fine.
Next comes the wonders that is SEO. Google? Can you still see us?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I already posted about it here: Bugs and Suggestions - CodeProject[^]
I run now again into the problem and can show it with an example. The problem occurs when there is a hash character at the begin of line followed immediately by a non-space character.
As shown in the editor. Preview is OK (similar without the pre tags):
<pre lang="text"># Download or copy source package to a build folder
#wget ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/tiff-4.0.6.tar.gz
tar xzf tiff-4.0.6.tar.gz
cd tiff-4.0.6
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install</pre>
Finally shown after posting:
# Download or copy source package to a build folder
<h1>wget <a href="ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/tiff-4.0.6.tar.gz">ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/tiff-4.0.6.tar.gz</a></h1>
tar xzf tiff-4.0.6.tar.gz
cd tiff-4.0.6
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
The problem can be solved by inserting a space after the hash character.
Note: Markdown is disabled.
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Jochen Arndt wrote: Note: Markdown is disabled.
Only in the forums. I don't think there's an option to disable it in QA (yet).
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Seems like there's an error where Markdown processing is inconsistent. It's on my TODO.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Yesterday, I stopped getting emails for replies - but still did for newsletters and suchlike - and assumed it was a minor hiccup.
But still none today, so I checked my settings and the "Send me an e-mail if someone replies to the message" had become unchecked. I haven't visited "My Settings" in months! 
I've re-enabled it, and we'll see if that fixes it - it may be a "soft error" or similar but if you get many people with the same it may be worth a look.
[edit]Yes - that fixed it[/edit]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
modified 29-Jan-16 5:29am.
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I confirm I had to re-enable this feature too, without having modified it myself in the first place.
I never finish anyth
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Well, it fixed the problem - I got an email for that one.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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We had an issue probably over a year ago where user settings (such as "email me notifications" were getting corrupted occasionally but it's been a long time since we've seen that. Thanks for letting us know - we'll keep an eye on it.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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