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what if we had the possibility to submit a would-be article to a proofreader (either CP staff, or volunteers) so they can cast a vote on language/grammar, and/or suggest improvements, however responsibility remains with the author?
BTW: I sometimes wish I had similar on actual content, that is: hey mr/ms specialist, please give your very first impression on this...
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We kinda-sorta already have this through the article moderation system. The only issue is that it's open to a lot of people.
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Chris Maunder
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yes, however it is anonymous, uncommitted, and does not focus on language.
I would appreciate a language-oriented proof reading service (that is a big step better than dumping the text in MS Word to get it somewhat checked).
And on occasion I would like to address a content-oriented specialist (probably a famous CPian known to be expert in the matter at hand).
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do gold articles go there too?
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Articles by Gold level members? No - they don't have to go through moderation.
But I see your point: there is no option for accomplished authors.
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Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: edit and correct this article
If worded too loosley, one might call this "mission creep" at this point. From a systems perspectve, IMO, corrections to 'content' happen in response to messages in the forum at the bottom of an article.
Clearly stating this as a "Plan for Improving Grammar and Formatting" of articles helps prevent eroding the individualistic quality you have cultivated at this site.
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I'm not sure I agree. As an article reader "Good technical content, but rotten writing" vs "Rotten technical content" is a useful distinction. Obviously having both good is ideal, but for something obscure enough that there's only a few articles available having an indication of why it was slammed would help in figuring which ones were worth looking at.
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CP has staff-editors who eventually edit and clean up the grammar/language. But I don't think they actually re-write it (in typical copy-edit style), so if the original article was not written in a natural style, the edited article would still feel a tad stiff to read (even if it's now grammatically correct).
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CodeProject Site Developers --
Print view truncates if code block falls on page break in PDF Writer
If one is looking at a print view, and if one is using Adobe PDF Writer, and if the article happens to have a code block, and if the the code block happens to be split by a page break when printing, then the code may be truncated.
I used the article "Using the LINQ ColumnAttribute to Get Field Lengths from your Database" by "HightechRider" for testing, printing in landscape mode.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/LinqColumnAttributeTricks.aspx?display=Print
I just thought you should know.
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This has been mentioned but I'm not sure what we can do. It sounds like an issue with Adobe, and if we fiddle with one bit then there's a chance we'd just break it elsewhere.
Even so, I'll see what we can do.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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FYI --
I am using IE7 and I found a workaround.
Maybe the workaround will help debug the matter, etc.
Here is what I do...
I open the Print view of the article.
I choose >File, >EditInVisualStudio2008.
The code opens in VisualStudio.
Now some of the styling is gone, but the code is still formatted legibly and the headings are there and etc.
In VisualStudio, I choose >File, >ViewInBrowser
Now, I am back in IE and I can print and the code prints fine.
So... maybe that is some kind of issue with the CSS and Adobed being silly and etc.
HTH.
Thank you.
-- Mark Kamoski
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Hi guys,
Apart from my normal programming activities, I also do quite a lot of PIC programming. I'd quite like to share my knowledge and experience of using these devices and I think many developers would find it interesting, especially if a series of articles was structured properly.
I know there's been a couple of articles that have touched on specific uC projects, but I wondered if you thought CP would be a suitable place for something like this?
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DaveyM69 wrote: wondered if you thought CP would be a suitable place for something like this
Absolutely!!
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Chris Maunder
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CP is no longer considered a MS only site, so it's an excellent place for you to write the article.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: CP is no longer considered a MS only site,
Absolutely. You can actually witness this transition from the websites' slogan. It used to be, I believe, 'Your Visual Studio .NET homepage'. Now it reads as 'Your development resource'.
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The other guy I work with does all our PIC stuff, I'm sure he'd be interested.
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Cool  Thanks everyone.
I'll start on it - glad to know there's some potential interest!
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Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)
Why are you using VB6? Do you hate yourself? (Christian Graus)
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Just dump it here 
It's about code, not the language.
(why else would so many VB'rs be able to post here?)
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leppie wrote: why else would so many VB'rs be able to post here
DaveBTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)
Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)
Why are you using VB6? Do you hate yourself? (Christian Graus)
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I would like to know if we can use a entryped key lock to protect third party code. This will not disable any functionaly, it just just prevent the user from decompiling any target that they do not have the source code to. This is a requirement for many Third Party vendors. Microsoft for starters.
Here is how it works:
1. The run the crypto valut access program.
2. Build thier source, the vault downloads an encrypted key from The Code Project (artile content)
3. The vault creates a user key from the public key for the user.
4. They run the code (which is able to dissasemble target assemblies).
5. The program checks the vault for the public / private key pair.
6. If they overrider the vault with thier own code (by modifying the public avaible source), the valut wans them they have just violated a term in the licens and the product is not void.
All souce fore the vault will be made available, only the public key and internal (encrypted) private key are unknown.
I can not create the new article if I can not do this. Microsoft will void all my software licenses for their development products.
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The only reason I can imagine you wanting to do this is to allow you to write an article that depends on a third party component. However, we currently strongly discourage articles that rely on commercial third party components becuase it means the article code is then useless without that commercial component.
All code on the Code Project should be usable with the set of tools a reasonable developer in the technology would have access to.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Okay Thanks Chris!
Chris Maunder wrote: The only reason I can imagine you wanting to do this is to allow you to write an article that depends on a third party component.
No, we have plans to use a third party product to help in rapid prototyping (SketchFlow and LabView). SketchFlow will be used for the prototype development UI and inner logic, anyone can view the SketchFlow project by download the project. LabView is going to be used to prototype some advanced hardware interfaces and give the ability to simulate advanced lab equipment like logic sniffers and such. The resulting product will take advantage of the abstraction layer for the harware interface. The end product will not use LabView at all. We are going to write our own hardware interface parsers. I beleive they make use of XML for this interface(s). I will check for any patents they hold on it under Google Patents. If they have a patent on the MetaLanguage as Microsoft does for XAML, I will attempt to get permision. We plan on creating a statigic partnership with LabView on the Paid non-community version of the product.
Chris Maunder wrote: All code on the Code Project should be usable with the set of tools a reasonable developer in the technology would have access to.
The Community Version (@ The Code Project) will have full unrestricted access to the source for everything. It will be a fully functional proof of concept prototype. The Paid version will have many more features not found in the proof of concept, ie. built in custom functions for basic types. The community version will have a preview of core translations, and the ability to add user defined translations.
Main reason this is necessary is to have the ability to provide a working demo. If I compile the project my Studio License is associated with the demo. So everyone decompiling Microsoft libs comes back to me, and I would looses my license and upset Microsoft, etc.
LabView does hold some related patents for thier XML Meta Language:
Test executive system having XML object representation capabilities[^]
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FF 3.0.10
Drag the splitter bar up above the start of the smilies section, the signature block/etc initially move up much slower than the rate of the splitter bar opening a large gap between the two.
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Thanks - will have an update in a day or so.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I just tried to emphasise a word with both Bold and Italic tags.(Using the Auto Tags under the Subject Textbox)
<b></b><i></i>
instead of
<b><i></i></b>
Also the cursor shift right a char or 2
Bug or feature?
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