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So you've got this thing smack dab in the center of "OriginalGriff - Professional Profile"?
If not in "My Settings" then NOT anywhere under my RedDk; I mean it's a message, and an ugly one too, full of tips and pointers, and markup think-speak, there's an image control armed-to-the-teeth "if YOU had a BLOG, this is what it would look like", and the whole concept ignores the simple fact ... I don't have a blog!
Here. How about a link to this same message just north of "Post a new blog entry". A link is short-cut to another webpage where ... the maintenance guys (hamsters, small sheep, etc) have something to tell me about the immediate neighborhood.
Done shouting. Thanks for the reply.
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RedDk wrote: So you've got this thing smack dab in the center of "OriginalGriff - Professional Profile"?
Yes.
But only I see it.
And why hide it - it's a useful feature that the Hamsters want you to know about. I don't have a blog either, but even if I did, I wouldn't be looking for something like that unless I knew it existed - and if it wasn't slap in the middle of my profile I wouldn't!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: it's a useful feature that the Hamsters want you to know about
Ahh, a blog is not useful to me. And I have little real estate on the page as it is. How about condensing the message into a link on another webpage to give me more real estate to park my garbage cans?
I'm thinking now that I might go green (as we alcoholics call this sort of thing in the States), rip out my existing plumbing to lighten my architectural foootprint. Then dig a hole over which to build an outhouse.
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Better now?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Message Removed
modified 26-Dec-15 10:35am.
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This article Verify Oracle Client installation[^] has been the subject of a spam report in the Spam and Abuse Forum.
I'm fairly sure it's not spam and others have agreed. However it's appearance in the S&A will no doubt attract spam reports to it.
Just a heads up 
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Rohan has removed the links, so it's just a reset on the user needed.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That spam forum is a good filter on who to avoid hiring in a team environment. Some people seem to have some kind of obsession with reporting articles that deviate in the slightest from their expectations of propriety. 
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It's still mangling answers, even if they are inside code blocks and markdown is turned off via teh checkbox below this box:
Regular Expression to check a string (FileName)[^]
Can we have a profile option to permanently disable markdown from any and all of a users posts? Because at the moment it's wasting a lot more time than it's saving in my experience...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: I hate markdown
Relax. Markdown hates you back... 
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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I cannot see the "Latest Article" section on my home page other than the featured one.
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I brought this recent CP article [^] up recently on the 'Article Writing' forum: [^], and the response from Chris seemed pretty unequivocal to me:
"If a dll is provided but no code then we'd need a very good reason why there's no code. A dll without code may contain malicious code.
Beyond that, where a code sharing, not an application sharing site." The author of the article mentioned he was considering posting source in a comment to a reader comment, but, in a response to a private e-mail I sent him through CP, he tells me now he is seeking venture capital and will definitely not post source.
I've suggested to the article author:
"I think if you wrote an article about object-graph databases in general, surveying the field, describing key differences in various current implementations, like Neo4j, that would be valuable, and you could, perhaps, indirectly describe your work by talking about why/how your "model" makes a different choice."
All this leaves me in a quandary: I like the author's article because the choices he makes in object-graph database design are (evidently) quite different from other current well-known implementations, like Neo4j. However, without the ability to see source (absent detailed discussion of his choices in the article), I am quite limited in my ability to study his choices, which is frustrating.
Should the article be reported ? Reported as "what" ?
This reminds me of the history of ReoGrid: [^] on CodeProject; the author (Jing Lu), about a year after his original post, decided to "go commercial" and no longer publish the source for his future versions of ReoGrid, but he has left the last version published on CodeProject source available. And, Jing is still responding to comments on the article.
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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Thanks for bringing this up Bill. I've just replied to the author based on your post here and voted 2 but I have to agree, I'm at a loss as to what to vote. I do get the feeling that the author is using CP as unpaid beta testing, but the closest I could really see is reporting it as Missing Downloads, so that is what I have reported it as.
This space for rent
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I've closed the article and emailed the author.
We're here to share code, not binaries. If that means we miss out on some cool stuff, so be it, but our focus is on the code.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The site menus don't show in Mobile Safari on iOS 9. They act as plain links.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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You may have written an article about something that was a problem years ago, and you really don't hink it's worth the time and effort to update it anymore. On the other hand, you don't want to delete it either, because it might be of use to a few people working with older solutions.
In that situation, it would be nice if you could mark your aritcle as outdated/obsolete/deprecated, whatever, so that people reading it would know it. Perhaps a highlighted text at the top saying something like "This is an old article that is no longer being updated by the author. It is left here for reference, and you are still welcome to use the contents according to the attached license"
Just a thought....
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Define "outdated/obsolete".
For someone still working on old VS 2003 code, VS 2003 articles are very relevant.
outdated/obsolete are in the eye of the beholder.
Deprecated is different (and potentially obsolete) in that it means it's been replaced by something better. However, if that replacement requires a new version of the target technology to use it, then those stuck on older technology still have need.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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What I was really looking for was some kind of way to let the readers know that an article is no longer being updated by the author, but that it is left for the benifit of those who can make use of it (instead of deleted)...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Typically if an author no longer updates an article then they just...wander away. Maybe what you're after is a "hasn't been updated in X years" flag to appear on an articles
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Maybe what you're after is a "hasn't been updated in X years" flag to appear on an articles
Isn't the "Date Last Updated" next to the author's name for the article? It says that when I hover my mouse pointer over the date. However, the words are not there - that might be helpful. 
I will be faarrrkkkking legless before I am carriedcto the car ftombhere. - Michael Martin - Christmas 2015
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Right now, you have to paste a link, erase out the text, and overwrite it with the article title. I mean, what year is this? 2012? Could your geek team automate it for us please? 
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Hey Chris,
I meant external URLs. Your auto-title grabber only works for CP links.
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Picky, picky!
OK, try it now.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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