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I've got a solution that's about 7 different significant projects (out of like 9)
Each one does its own thing, some are dependent on others, but each one can pretty much be explored and written about in its own right.
However, I can't reasonably segregate all the source to make it available project by project. There's just too many interdependencies to make that anything but confusing for people.
So I have to release the source for the whole thing even if i write 7 different articles - same codebase.
So my question is, should I write an article for each, just because each deserves the space and room to explore it, or should I write one really long article for the whole thing?
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Quote: So my question is, should I write an article for each, just because each deserves the space and room to explore it, or should I write one really long article for the whole thing?
Go for a separate article, because I think 6+ projects are definitely going to require at least a 10k words article, which won't be a good experience for the readers.
I would surely break them into different articles, discussing each topic separately and linking them together with hyperlinks as needed.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
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THe problem I've run into with hyperlinking between articles is having to go back and add the links after each one is approved. When there's a lot of articles over time it gets hectic to remember them all.
Oh well, i still find myself agreeing with you. I think one article is too long.
It's sure too long for me to write in one sitting. 
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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You can put the links at the very beginning of the article like
Part 1 of X
Part 2 of X
Part 3 of X
...
As placeholders, then the article itself.
This way is easier to add the clicketies when the other article is done and approved. This way you only need to go to the latest of your serie and then click thorugh to the first one to add the newest one.
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
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You can see all your published articles, and their links, in your personal pages
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I realize that.
But I can't put a table of links at the top of each article until they all have been approved. Think about it: I don't get a link until after the article has been approved so i can't link to it, which means every time an article is approved i have to go back and edit all of the old ones.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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And additionally as long as you have not the privileg "Create an article without requiring moderation" all the updated articles need to be approved again 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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yeah, i've been to this rodeo a few times already. LOL
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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There are quite a few article series floating round here. So how about:
Codewitch's parser stuff - Part 1 - overview
Codewitch's parser stuff - Part 2 - project A
Codewitch's parser stuff - Part 3 - project B
...
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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It is best to make a series of it, starting with an overview and some introduction and some resumee at the end. You can link them too. Take a look at this outstanding article series.
Best is to prepare all articles so you and the reviewers are understanding the content, its flow and may give some tips.
Great and good luck! 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I suggest you post this in the Article Writing Forum: [^].
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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I create a multi-part article, and break up the narrative into meaningful chunks. As far as the downloadable source goes, I make one zip file, and add it to all of the articles in the set. That way, nothing (as far as the download is concerned) gets lost. I have a few multi-part article sets here.
".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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because I need it, I just made a Document Object Model for regular expressions.
So you can do things like
var expr = new RegexOrExpression(new RegexLiteralExpression('a'),new RegexLiteralExpression('b'));
to do "a|b" aka "[ab]"
in case you're feeling masochistic
but at least you'll understand them. And they work in VB, so you can all use them 
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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The or operator in regular expressions of my bane.
I usually wind up putting them in parentheses just to be sure it knows what I mean.
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i found it hard to remember too until i wrote a regular expression parser.
everything not in parentheses gets concatenated so
foo*|[r-z]|asd?AS(da)s|bar
gets turned into this list of 4 alternates/disjunctions:
1. foo*
2. [r-z]
3. asd?AS(da)s
4. bar
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I just get paranoid whenever I use the or operator.
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generally i do too. i think it's a sign of experience, since they tend to introduce bugs into places where people rely on precedence. For some reason "and" is more predictable i guess.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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And, the code is ... where ?
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Time for a takeover by CodeProject and call it Maunders Super Duper News Magazine 
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MSDN saif: thank you for supporting Microsoft’s platform evolution over the years
I stopped supporting the platform evolution years ago, when it started evolving into cr@p.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: We realized that it is time to retire MSDN Magazine and to carry on its work through Web channels like docs.microsoft.com.
They don't say exactly WHY it's time to retire the magazine, so here's my best guess.
Since they've discovered that they can offload software testing to the public, they are going to try the same thing with the documentation. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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