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Hi CP,
For example take a look at the Print button present inside About Article box at right side in this article[^].
When you hover on that button, you can see one thin blue color line is appearing behind that, which can be seen between the gap of Print button and Email button.
I checked the css code in file Main.min.css?dt=2.6.121006.1[^] and found that the below code
a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}
is causing one underline on that link, which is coming as a blue line in that gap.
Can this be fixed ?
Thanks,
Tadit
modified 11-Oct-12 7:36am.
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Hardly a day goes when I do not visit CP. I admire the commitment and passion of the founders.
Just curious to know how things work behind the scenes. What is the data layer like? How many servers? What search engine has been used? How are advertisements picked up? How much of this is custom development?
thanks,
Saurabh
saurabh
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The site is mainly run by hamsters, and driven by Chris. The hamsters have put some information about the server at the bottom of the "About" page[^]. Above it you have some of the humans assisting Chris in managing the hamsters.
Advertisers are picked up by choosing those who sent the best advertisement gifts.
Hardly anything is custom development, it is all based on Bob's work (it took him seven days to bring the site to life, find Chris and enroll the hamsters).
~RaGE();
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Member 179330 wrote: Just curious to know how things work behind the scenes
Do you watch the Muppets? If so, think of a scene where all the muppets are running around in a panic waving their arms in the air wailing.
That's close.
At a technical level, though, it's plain, old-school ASP.NET 4.0 webforms using a totally out of date architecture (we started writing the initial .NET code in 2003). It's all custom dev, we use no ORMs, it's all hand coded, carefully crafted and beautifully polished and totally overdue for being thrown out and rewritten with 20% of the code using modern tools and sensible design patterns, an abstracted datalayer and a more RAD dev environment. I'm not even sure if we'll go to .NET 4.5 at this point.
4 web servers, 1 database server (with live failover) serves all the web content. This is down from 10 servers and 3 database servers a few years ago. We just got sick of managing servers so streamlined.
4 search servers run a custom Lucene.NET install. It can run on 1 server, but we have spare and like redundancy. Mail forwarders are all linux. Advertisements are all served using DART.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hi There,
The current voting mechanism seems to be confusing for many people. If I understand correctly, 1,2 is downvote, 3 is neutral and 4, 5 is upvote and it is weigted by member level.
However, one of my answer got accepted and user posted "Thanks it worked" kind of message and clicked first start without knowing it means downvoting.
So I have one question: Is there a difference between 1 and 2? And for that matter 4 and 5 ?
If not, one suggestion, can we not just have Up and Down voting button/arrow (like StackOverflow and some other forums? This will definitely reduce the confusion.
-Milind
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Most people like the current system and, in general, it works well. Occasionally people confuse 1 and 5 but in the long run it is no big deal.
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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Thanks Richard for answer.
Its not about confusion between 1 and 5. Sometimes member, while clicking 1 start are really not aware that they are downvoting and in turn reducing points of the solution provider....Rather they are thinking they are giving 1 mark out of 5 possible mark.
Since the stars are in one line, it gives illusion of grade i.e. 1 out 5 , 5 out of 5.
Hope I am claearing what I am trying to say.
-Milind
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Err, that's what I said. And, as I also said, it's no big deal.
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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They do give that information; it's just that too many people do not bother to read it.
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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You get it to the T. Exactly I meant that but couldn't explain.
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Milind Thakkar wrote: Is there a difference between 1 and 2? And for that matter 4 and 5 ?
Yes. In both cases, 1.
A voting system of 1 to 5 is as old as the hills. I cannot believe that there is a general confusion regarding how to score something on a scale of 1 to 5.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: I cannot believe
Course you can ...
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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OK, yes I can. 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thanks Chris, Thanks Richard,
If you see the message from Shams Dar, this is what I meant. Though I understand its common rating mechanism and that people do not read documentation.
But, as I can see there are many cases, where OP has accepted solution and also written comment like "It worked", "Thanks a lot" etc. Still rated the solution at 1 star.
Probably, once your rate, a message below rating which states You Rated this post "Very Bad" or "Very Useful" etc would help everyone understand the repercussation of their action.
Hope this makes sense. If not, we can consider this topic closed. I personnally don't have any issue with the mechanism as such
-Milind
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Today I posted an Article, I added file to include in my article, by mistake I chosen wrong file to upload, and I deleted,again added a new file, but here I didn't get Upload File option again and getting the message "Already added the file (Even I deleted the same file from the uploaded file list)".
modified 11-Oct-12 2:07am.
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In Question/Answer Page, There is a section Top Experts in 24hrs and Top Experts this month. There Serial No Starting from 0. Is there any reason behind this. I think the serial No. must start from 1.
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Real programmers start lists at 0.
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
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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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What number does an array index start from.
Maybe the joke is getting old...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Obviously Array Index starts from 0. I am really feeling Good after knowing that real programmers starts Serial No from 0.
Thanks.
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I think it is a genuine aesthetic issue. For the user and display it should be (1) and for the program internally, it can continue zero-indexing. A quick patch like
<%=(i+1%>
if you are using a repeater control for this should help remedy it.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
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But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep!
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: A quick patch like
<%=(i+1%>
if you are using a repeater control for this should help remedy it.
I'm biting my tongue here, Vasudevan.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hi,
I recently started this article, and edited it over a few days and then published it. As far as I could see it never made it to the Latest Articles bit. Looking at it, it has an "Updated" date set long before the publishing date (even though I updated it just before publishing). 
My guess is that when I published, whatever compiles the list of articles for the category looks first at the Created date to see if it's new, rather than the Published date, and if it's not deemed new then then it looks at the Updated date, which is the right idea but doesn't appear to be have been stamped totally correctly if an article's been in draft status for a while.
I do accept it's perfectly possible I'm just coming up with an elaborately creative way to assure myself this is why my article seemed to be tucked away from the word go. If it's purely because it sucks then I'll be quiet and I'm sorry!
Thanks.
In the beginning there was nothing.
Then the lord spoke, and he said, "Let there be light!" and behold!
There was still nothing but you could see it better.
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We'll check out what happened. I'm sure it's us, not you 
[Edit: it was us, not you. Our editing system allows us more control than you guys get, and one of those controls is to not upset the dates. In this case the dates should have been updated. We're fixing it to reduce foot-shooting situations.]
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
modified 11-Oct-12 17:18pm.
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