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ah Thanks for pointing that out.
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...randomly pick a word from a dictionary. That way when I go Scottish and post something like F*** F*** F***ety F***, it would turn out like Rabbit Choke Pants Broccoli. That would be hilarious (to me)!
- S
50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
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Geez, I don't know. That seems like the most ship knock wart jump toad snip yellow angst bread ginger harp tail idea ever.
After a preview though, maybe not. 
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
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See? It worked! 
Yeah, on second thought, pretty lame idea.
- S
50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
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Holy Jumping Vasectomy Piston Big Jobbies Batman. What a Snarking Dingle Botty Cough of an idea.
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That's fgotten stupid.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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Ah, see? You can make it work.
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Is the Download Count close behind? 
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Depends on how you define "close". 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I guess I assumed you were going to do the Download Count first, since that seems to me to be a more reliable gauge of an article's appeal than bookmarks, and (unlike votes) is not dependent on whether the reader feels like doing it.
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The issue is that we have over 20,000 articles, and nearly double that in downloads, and we've not been tracking download counts. What we are doing is:
- developing a log scanner that will scan nearly a terabyte of IIS logs to extract historical information and seed the database with the download counts so far
- developing a parser that will strip out the download links in articles and replace the links with a tracking link and download count indicator
- reworking the submission wizard so that downloads are no longer explicitely included in the text, but instead included automatically using the above control
This is a fairly big job, but most of it has been done. Just need to get some breathing space to finish it up.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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OK, thanks for letting me know.
Are you going to have a beta of the new submission wizard?
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It will be the same as the old with the exception of the download section, which will merely formalise what we already have and will still allow flexibility in naming the download links. I'll certainly try and open it up for a limited beta before we go live.
I know there's a laundry list of enhancements for the submission wizard itself, but they will, unfortunately, have to wait a little longer.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hans Dietrich wrote: a more reliable gauge of an article's appeal
Yes, but neither is anything I'd trust.
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Great job Chris and CP Admins!!!
Regards,
Thomas Stockwell
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Visit my Blog
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It's here.
I guess that doesn't count as close. Not even close to be being close.
But better late than never.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Just tried replying to a post in the Lounge and received a plain white page with the message:
"Error: Failed to load viewstate. The control tree into which viewstate is being loaded must match the control tree that was used to save viewstate during the previous request. For example, when adding controls dynamically, the controls added during a post-back must match the type and position of the controls added during the initial request.. Ticket: "
That's the whole message - there was no ticket number. It repeated after each of three or four tries.
Throw Chris in a shower and sober him up while this is still going on; it's probably intermittent, and he won't want to miss it. 
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Yep - I just uploaded a new version of the site so you would have been trapped in-between pages. The Viewstate of the old page wouldn't have matched the new page on a post back so the ASP.NET engine gets all scared and confused. Just try again after a fresh page load and it will be all good.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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That sounds reasonable. I must say, if that error was generated by IIS, it's the most informative I've ever seen from a Microsoft product. Maybe some small part of the MS team is finally beginning to "get it."
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Actually we're having to put in lots of code to hide these annoyingly verbose, accurate and informative error messages. I'll check to see why that slipped through and ensure that next time you get a 'An error occured. Please reboot your machine, or, if that fails to help, reinstall your local operating system'.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: 'An error occured. Please reboot your machine, or, if that fails to help, reinstall your local operating system'
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts... --William Shakespeare
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I thought you were going to go with "An error occurred. Get a hair cut."
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I was googling for something and came across this: http://www.123aspx.com/redir.aspx?res=32750[^]
Aside from a tiny bar at the top, everything is CP content.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
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