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The author requested his article be removed temporarily while making some updates. I suspect that once the article was returned online it went into "pending" status. Then once the pending status article is approved the first posted date changes. We'll look into it more closely to uncover precisely what happened and find a solution to prevent it happening again.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project
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Seems that the Q&A is extremely slow and every now and then I get no results for example when trying to see new questions. The only message is:
"Sorry, no entries were found." (kinda hard to believe...)
Same kind of symptoms if I randomly open a question or profile: "Sorry, the item you requested could not be found."
This doesn't seem to be related to a single server since at least web22-24 all give this response occasionally.
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I think the whole site seems slower tonight......maybe something to do with the 109,223 online! Think thats the highest i've seen it.
Probably a rogue spider........
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Good point! Didn't notice that. Now it's dropped to 64k and things are lot, lot faster.
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No spider, just lots of people reading the newsletter and clicking those links.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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The same thing happening again, roughly 1 day later and now only ~20k members online.
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We had to kick the main DB server while moving a log file to a new disk cluster on te SAN
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hi,
I'm currently waiting on approval for my first submission and it would have been nice for me to be able to see how many approval votes it has gained so far (forgive my newbie eagerness).
I would expect any rejection votes to be accompanied by feedback but i have no way of telling whether the lack of feedback is because it doesn't need improvement (and that last approval vote is incoming any second now) or because no-one has got around to looking at it yet.
a little label or even a progress bar showing x of y required votes received would be, IMO, a nice feature for those of us eagerly waiting to see if we make the cut 
Pedis ex oris
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The forum menu on the left is getting really long. Has anyone considered making it collapsible to limit the size?
vbmike
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It is not as long as the page, but once it gets there, I think it may be useful.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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It's bad enough trying to get people to post into the correct forum when they can see the list. If it's collapsed, it will be nigh on impossible.
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I tend to forget I am not the only user! would be nice to have an advanced settings for folks that use site a lot. Just dreaming....
vbmike
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Good point! +5
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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If the sections you're not in were to be collapsed, I don't think that even the noobs would have a problem. The click on a single link for Programming Questions and then get re-directed as appropriate.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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I would think "most" users of CP would still understand a collapsible menu format. Not knowing where to place questions derives from not knowing what exactly to ask or where it fits in I suppose but....don't think you could ever prevent all the navigation sort of errors. Maybe CP needs a sort of area that folks can go to answer a few questions that will then give a better clue of where to place questions?? That would be for folks that have to be somewhat totally lost I guess. As I get a little more knowledge under my belt it seems simple enough to ask the appropriate question in the appropriate forum.
vbmike
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I'd prefer to leave it as-is for the moment
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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On my 'Professional Profile' page i have neat little coloured boxes telling me my status in all reputation categories except author. I assume this is because i have yet to have any submissions accepted (im working on it).
My question is, why do not have a box anyway? according to the reputation point guide the 0 point author status is defined and has a name ('Browser')
I think having a white box with a big fat 0 in it would encourage the 'point collectors' (ok, i admit i like to see the numbers go up) to consider submitting content. It would also make clear the distinction between 'hasnt had a submission accepted' and 'Under Water'
Pedis ex oris
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I faced the same problem while voting some article. Seems my Vote is accepted by I can't see the message.
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I found some similarities between said article and a book on google books: Developer's workshop to COM and ATL 3.0.
Can somebody else look into this, I may be wrong, but who knows?
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine."
Ross Callon, The Twelve Networking Truths, RFC1925
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The author has provided a reference link to an MSDN section, the article is a cherry-pick of the terminology from that, the article section headers match the COM Technical Overview Page, with content being picked from within.
More a bulletted summary than an article...........
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Thanks very much for the catch. I have temporarily removed the article and began a dialogue with the author.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project
modified on Tuesday, September 6, 2011 2:20 PM
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...with no way to undo the deletion.
This seems to happen when I'm writing a long post and have resized the editor window. The loss of work isn't welcomed. 
Update 3-Sep-2011 5:15 PM:
The deletion occurs when I hold the Shift key and press End or the cursor keys. Selecting characters with the mouse doesn't auto delete at the end of the selection process.
/ravi
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