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First of all I think it's great that articles are divided into sections, and can be tagged, so people find what they're looking for faster.
Second, I think the system as it's currently implemented is great when sections are clearly defined, and tags are fairly static.
But, and I'm just thinking 'out loud' here...
In an ever changing landscape of technical solutions I think the current system is a bit limiting.
For example there's nothing about functional programming anywhere. Not in the sections and I can't find a tag for it either (unless I'm not looking good enough).
I have a post about PHP, but in the sections, under "Languages", there is no PHP to be found. Instead I have to look under "Web Development". That's not very clear, as I can do web development in C#, but that one's under "Languages". Having sections for languages may not be the best approach at all, since there's literally tons of them.
There's a ton of sections for Windows languages, frameworks and platforms, but one, maybe two, for Apple.
Why should C# and Windows get different treatments than Swift and Apple? It sends a message to programmers of the latter...
I realize that people don't write a lot about, let's say Scala or Clojure, on CodeProject, but if they do they're going to have lots of fun getting it in the 'correct' section with the 'correct' tags. And chances are their articles won't be read because they're not in the 'popular sections'. And maybe that's the reason we don't have many such articles?
And then there's a load of sections and tags that nobody uses.
The current list of sections and tags could be updated, but they'll probably be outdated next week.
Isn't it time for a more flexible system for sections and tags?
I'm thinking of a system where anyone can just type anything (kind of like WordPress, and probably other CMSs as well.).
It should be possible to look for articles based on (multi-word) tags and on sections. And perhaps we could have a fancy tag cloud with the most popular tags of last week, last month and all-time.
I believe editors are already editing sections and tags, so misspelled tags or sections can be edited.
I'm hoping for a system where a programmer of any platform can publish and have their article read.
Of course if I'm the only one interested in such articles and taxonomy I'll shut up now
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Yes, the taxonomy is limited by design, and added new Chapters/Sections/Subsections is done after careful consideration.
That being said, Tags that are applied to articles are not limited to the official taxonomy and form what is generally termed as a folksonomy. This can be leverage on the Search Page[^]. You can filter on document types, rating, date ranges, authors, fields to search, ... You can even filter on the Chapter, Section or Subsection of the official taxonomy.
For example, searching for php returns 1001 articles at this time.
Also, if you find yourself searching for the same thing repeatedly, you can save your query for quick searching. For example, I have a search query saved for Chris' Forum posts, just in case he has promised something that is going to result in extra work for me
Matthew
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Oh wow, never noticed the saved query, that's awesome
Thanks for the clarification.
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Using an @ inside a fenced code-block generated an encoded link to a member profile in the posted message, but not in the preview:
<a href="http://www.codeproject.com/Members/id">@ID</a>
The same thing inside a <pre> block works as expected:
@ID
"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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Can Anyone tell me where to edit my signature? I dont want my name in Sig to be Jumbo size...
cheers,
Super
Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Upper right corner my settings->under forums tab->Message Signature.
Programmer : A machine that converts coffee into code !
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I hope this helps
Nah.....its not working. My Name is still jumbo size
cheers,
Super
Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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You may format the signature using HTML:
<div style="font-size:small">Super</div>
I have just done it for my sig and it is small.
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Well It work with font size. but has different fonts..
Any idea why this change happened?
cheers,
Super
Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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It may be sourced by the new markdown formatting (I have it disabled) or some other site changing.
To check this you can try to disable markdown (below the edit window when posting).
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Hm, maybe markdown formatting kicking in?
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Another very simple solution, remove <h2> tag from your name in sign.
Programmer : A machine that converts coffee into code !
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Print Stars in Greather than shape[^]
In this Solution I tried to format my Answer and its automatically took
<pre> with in the Solution If removed that,It looks so ugly.
நெஞ்சு பொறுக்கு திலையே-இந்த
நிலைகெட்ட மனிதரை நினைந்துவிட்டால்
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"And, so it goes:" [^]
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"
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Don't know if this has been "discovered" before but I just found out that it seems to work ok if you uncheck "Use Markdown formatting" (and then of course use Markup).
/Sascha
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A few days ago I posted this answer[^], and the code block had to contain two backslashes. Because of the Markdown support, I had to escape them (so I had to type 4 backslashes to make 2 appear). But today I visited that answer again, and I saw that 4 backslashes appeared. So I edited the answer to un-escape them (typing 2 backslashes instead of 4), and after the edit, one backslash appeared, instead of two.
Is it a bug that the backslashes didn't escape once?
The quick red ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog> .
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Delete my account plz
plz send E-mail if account deleted
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Go to "My Settings", check "Close my account", click "Save my Settings"
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Should be good now
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Sure is, thanks, and I hope you get paid overtime for this.
I guess I better learn to use Markdown properly.
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I'd be a rich man if I was paid overtime
As long as it works, that's all I care about. I have extra chocolate this weekend to keep things ticking along.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: I'd be a rich man if I was paid overtime
I would not say that you can complain
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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