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Have they improved it recently? I quit using that site because the latest articles lists visual basic stuff and the search returned more visual basic results than anything.
John
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What do you want changed?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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See
http://www.codeguru.com/forum/search.php?s=1f5a811101e8905699074fc389655eed[^]
The combobox and
the keyword search:
Basic query: separate your search terms with spaces.
Advanced query: Join words with AND, OR and NOT to control your search in more detail.
Add asterisks (*) to use wild cards in your search (*bullet* matches vBulletin etc.)
Le Ridder Noir
Considderd to be the worlds fastest knoppenbonker.
one year of working experience with the worlds fastest copie paster(about 2000 lines a minute).
And experience with the one and only NewEra Guru and Crystal Ace.
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Thanks.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Thanks.
Does the Thanks mean:
1. Thanks for the example, and now it's falling out of my head in the trashcan
2. Thanks for the example, and I'll implement it right away.
3. Thanks for the example, and I'll put it on the todo list with low priority.
4. Thanks for the example, and I'll put it on the todo list with hight priority.
5. Thanks is the default answer to a stupid question.
6. Non of the above. Please exlpaine what the thanks means.
Thanks
Le Ridder Noir
Considderd to be the worlds fastest knoppenbonker.
one year of working experience with the worlds fastest copie paster(about 2000 lines a minute).
And experience with the one and only NewEra Guru and Crystal Ace.
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3.5 Thanks for the example, and I'll put it on the todo list with medium priority
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Thanks
Le Ridder Noir
Considderd to be the worlds fastest knoppenbonker.
one year of working experience with the worlds fastest copie paster(about 2000 lines a minute).
And experience with the one and only NewEra Guru and Crystal Ace.
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Can you add an advanced search to the homepage search, so if I search for articles, I can set for example the article type to MFC/c++ so I don't find the .Net and other type of articles.
Thanks in advance
Le Ridder Noir
Considderd to be the worlds fastest knoppenbonker.
one year of working experience with the worlds fastest copie paster(about 2000 lines a minute).
And experience with the one and only NewEra Guru and Crystal Ace.
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There are the different categories down the left had side of the screen.
You could also trying using google to search CP only....
e.g. Type --> "MFC Button Controls site:www.codeproject.com" into google.
Regards,
Brian Dela 
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Brian Delahunty wrote:
There are the different categories down the left had side of the screen.
If your looking for an article and you don't know the category it's placed in it should be handy to have an language selector.
An if you use the article search you can find what your looking for very fast.
Brian Delahunty wrote:
You could also trying using google to search CP only....
e.g. Type --> "MFC Button Controls site:www.codeproject.com" into google.
I think this is not what you want. Search on another site for something you should find on the site itself.
Le Ridder Noir
Considderd to be the worlds fastest knoppenbonker.
one year of working experience with the worlds fastest copie paster(about 2000 lines a minute).
And experience with the one and only NewEra Guru and Crystal Ace.
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Le Ridder Noir wrote:
I think this is not what you want. Search on another site for something you should find on the site itself.
Yes. I agree with you there but sometimes it's a must.. Like with the MSDN... that search is unbelievably bad.. using google I almost always find what I'm looking for.
Regards,
Brian Dela
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I was just going to ask for this feature... I hate when I search for a C++ article and get hundreds of .NET results. It is just a waste of my time.
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This will be added. No firm date yet though - sorry.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
This will be added.
I am glad to hear that.
Thank You Chris,
John
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Hi All,
I'm a professional developer, who works in MS VS.NET at work, developing WinForms and ASP.NET apps in C#.
I am also a Linux geek, & have recently been playing with Mono [http://www.go-mono.org/] a lot. For those who don't know, Mono is a Free cross-platform implementation of .NET.
My question is - are articles written about C# under Mono appropriate for this site? Specifically, I'm intending on writing some .NET-ified libraries etc., & releasing them under the GPL.
Yours,
Duncan Bayne
--
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." - Alexis de Tocqueville.
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Duncan Bayne wrote:
My question is - are articles written about C# under Mono appropriate for this site?
Absolutely. However, please reconsider using the GPL licence - it's overly restrictive. Consider instead the artistic licence or more simply a 'use and enjoy but don't remove my copyright notices' licence.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Posted a new article yesterday ASP.NET Validators Unclouded[^] and it has to be said that I'm really not fond of the new interface. Two problems in particular:
1) I spend a lot of time formatting the HTML so that I can actually maintain the article. The way it reformats now (particularly removing whitespace, but I'm also not keen on upper-case HTML tags) is ugly at best, unbearable at worst. If I have to make changes then it will have to be to the article as I wrote it, not the edited version, which isn't great news for the editors.
2) It seems to change all ".php" to ".php" meaning that I have a line of code half way down my article saying
Response.Redirect("anvokay.phpx", true);That makes no sense! I assume this has something to do with the fact that the whole site seems to be PHP rather than ASP now, but if you want people to submit ASP[.NET] articles then this isn't a great help 
I haven't noticed anything else... yet... but in short, it would be nice if it actually retained the HTML you give it.
Paul
We all will feed the worms and trees
So don't be shy - Queens of the Stone Age, Mosquito Song
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Paul Riley wrote:
...It seems to change all ".php" to ".php" meaning...
DOH! Okay, very funny
Not sure it's the best idea having that happen in the middle of articles, but okay, you got me
Still, the reformatting is a problem.
Paul
We all will feed the worms and trees
So don't be shy - Queens of the Stone Age, Mosquito Song
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Hit the 'HTML' button in the editor and just use it in non-WYSIWYG mode.
The PHP thing - well - you don't *seriously* expect us to do a full rewrite in a day 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Hit the 'HTML' button in the editor and just use it in non-WYSIWYG mode
I did that. Geez, I'd have been in trouble if I hadn't seen that 
But it still went ahead and reformatted it for me. All my tags became upper-case, the blank lines between paragraphs disappeared and the indent tabs for TD tags got lost as well. 
Chris Maunder wrote:
The PHP thing - well - you don't *seriously* expect us to do a full rewrite in a day
Why not, ya bunch of wimps?
I'm not a morning person. I'm not even usually awake at that time in the morning, let alone able to think beyond the obvious, but I bought a dog at the weekend and he is very much a morning person.
Paul
We all will feed the worms and trees
So don't be shy - Queens of the Stone Age, Mosquito Song
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Chris Maunder wrote:
The PHP thing - well - you don't *seriously* expect us to do a full rewrite in a day
and why not? you lazy bunch
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Yeah.. damn lazy bunch they are 
Regards,
Brian Dela
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The forum in this article[^] contains a thread discussing the perceived fall in quality of unedited reader contributions. One of the suggestions in the thread is to move unedited articles with a low rating into a separate section of Code Project, in order to reduce 'clutter'.
One possibility would be to move the article into the 'inactive' section if the article had received more than N votes and had a rating less than R. This sounds like it could be automated as part of the rating mechanism. The mechanism could also notify the author so that they could revise and resubmit the article. N (minimum number of votes) would need to be large enough to prevent one or two disgruntled readers from trashing an article by themselves. R sets the required rating for the unedited article to be retained.
This same mechanism could forward or highlight successful unedited articles to the editors. This way, the editors could concentrate on articles that had passed a measure of peer review.
As an example, if N=10 and R=2.0, an unedited article that received 10 votes and still had a rating less than 2.0 would be moved to the inactive section, and the author would be notified. Conversely, if the article had 10 votes and a rating higher than 2.0, it could be added to the 'to-be-edited' list for the editors to look at.
(And yes, Chris, I know your can of spare time is as empty as mine ; I always feel guilty posting in the suggestions forum  )
Software Zen: delete this;
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Don't feel guilty posting suggestions. I save them all and the good ones will be implemented.
The editors already have a list of good articles essentially using the model you describe. The issue is that there are so many new articles that they are having trouble even keeping up with the direct submissions, let alone the unedited articles.
Having notifications of poor articles is a little tricky. What happens if an article's score fluctuates over the critical point? Obviously you limit the number of emails but then how often do you email an author? How often are articles left in the scrap heap until they are removed? All solvable, but they all need careful thinking about.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Unfortunately, you can cheat on rating by creating enough accounts or (script kiddie to the rescue) by spoofing.
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