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Thanks
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Never comment ur code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand !!!
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Chris,
bearing in mind the site load and finance issues where can I go to buy a CP t shirt ?
Black of course, not white and preferably fitted.
Ta.
Elaine (non-naturalist fluffy tigress)
The tigress is here 
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Along those lines - there is a CodeProject Stuff link on the main page, but to be honest, I find the selection of items pretty paltry. As you suggest, a few other color schemes for shirts would be nice. And I would definitely buy a water bottle (athletic-type, you know, like you'd carry around hiking or put on a bike). Possibilities for other items are endless!
"Fish and guests stink in three days." - Benjamin Franlkin
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I know there have been alot of issues lately and many growing pains. Do not know if this has been suggested before (only pages a few pages of posts), but how about a Status Page, this would simply give a server status or any known current problems along with maybe a status of how the next generation of CP is going. Could help lower the number of posts in the Lounge from people (like me) always wanting to know how things are going 
Rocky <><
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Dear CPians,
I am have been using CP for around 1,5 years...
I live in Greece and evre since CP ganed hosting servers, pages load very slowly. Sometimes pages might not load at all...
As a result I have stoped using it.
Just wanted to let you know...;P
theJazzyBrain
Excellence is not an act, but a habit! Aristotle
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So you stopped right after 7:23 8 Jul '04?
A student knows little about a lot.
A professor knows a lot about little.
I know everything about nothing.
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I agree, it is almost unusable - this is the first time in several days I have been able to get on. Mostly pages won't load at all and if they do it takes ages and then that's it - I can't go any further. I used to refer to this site a lot but rarely use it now which is a shame as when it worked it was the best resource out there.
Rugby League: The Greatest Game Of All.
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Yup...
Wonder if they are going to do anyhting...
Chris usually looks after his website...
Let's hope
theJazzyBrain
Excellence is not an act, but a habit! Aristotle
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I am also noticing an extreme slowdown of the CodeProject web site. This has just started within about the last 3 weeks. It is almost unusable now.
I am hoping that this site doesn't go down. It is an excellent resource for programmers. The site is great, just fix the slowdown problem.
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Maybe it would be nice to add a subscription where you would be paying an amount of fee a year and you have an instant connection all the time ?. (for each 1000 users 1 server for example ?) and anonymus would be dropped onto the free servers. Atleast I would be prepared to pay for it (do not tons ofcourse  ).
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The site seemst o be crawling more and more these days, despite the number of active members not changing much. I know that an ASP.NET CP is in the works (being planned, whatever), so may I suggest that whoever is working on it definitely read-up on caching in ASP.NET.
In ASP.NET 2.0, for example, you can even use the SqlCacheDependencyItem (something like that; don't have the 2.0 docs open right now) to help the message forums quite a bit (well, not the lounge since it changes frequently).
Effective caching could definitely benefit CP. As it stands now, I spend more time waiting for pages to load than posting replies.
Microsoft MVP, Visual C#
My Articles
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Idea: Each new article starts out with a rating of 3, silver member.
Reasoning:
IMO the rating works well in the long term. However, the first fistful of votes have an immense effect on article perception and visibility (and thus, how it can acquire new votes).
An automatic initial vote would reduce the effect of the initial votes, while not affecting the long term behavior or preferring any article.
The "start vote" would ideally:
- keep the long term behavior in tact
- reduce the "peakiness" of the initial votes (and thus look more fair)
- can turn the "recent articles that got a single 5 vote" list into an actual "latest best picks"
- still allow outstanding articles to rise, and poor articles to fall quickly
- can be added fairly to all existing articles by a simple script (I hope)
It can not
- Solve "hate ratings" alltogether (however, the effect of a single "knee jerk 1" is less)
- make everyone happier than before
- Remove all luck factors from vote acquisition
Side Effects:
The "average rating" will favor many votes over few.
I understand that this is primarily the job of the "Popularity rating", but I think some of this would also help spread the top field a little bit better. (That's the main disadvantage I see)
Example: Imagine an article that "deserves" the ratings 4 5 5 5, making an average of 4.75. Receiving votes in above order, however, reduces visibility (it's a 4/4.5 article, not a full fiver, and likely lose the "latest best picks" position. It will take longer to acquire those votes, after it will be no longer in the latest best picks or the recent updates. Receiving the same votes in different order will "promote" the article better, and thus attract much more votes.
I didn't try any numbers _how_ existing articles would be affected, how "strong" the automatic vote actually is, etc. (The "power" can be regulated by the weight, from my "feel" for averages, a single vote is quite powerful in data sets<=10 elements)
Just an idea to keep you busy, Chris.
we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is Vonnegut jr.
sighist || Agile Programming | doxygen
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This is a good idea, but it need a little modification.
The inial vote of 3 will not be applied to an article once it has 5 real votes for it. This means that if an article does deserve 5, it will get to 5 after it has got 5 votes.
If you vote me down, my score will only get lower
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I think that page views - can show instersting in the subject of article.
rating,votes,popularity - shows better how reader like "the body" of article
IMHO. comments - show how many people try to use/modify it,and represent "community" of the article.
so count of comments can show us such communities
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Yes, one should have the option to remove the other posts in ur personal page.
I'll write a suicide note on a hundred dollar bill - Dire Straits
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Good idea, but it's not something that the current system is able to offer.
It'll happen.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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wow!
I'll write a suicide note on a hundred dollar bill - Dire Straits
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I've again removed the messags and updated the filters.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
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They don't look very removed to me.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.
- P.J. O'Rourke
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Your search filter doesn't work right.
I select I only want C# and I get VB.NET and C++ also.
Please fix this.
It would improve the usefullness of your site and how much people have to sift through to get what they need.
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I retract my earlier statement.
The problem is ASP.NET.
I only want C# ASP.NET.
Could you break this out into C# ASP.NET and VB ASP.NET or change you query to an && statement to where ASP.NET and C# both have to be checked?
OR be able to sort the filter by category where C# articles bubble together?
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It would be really neat if you could receive emails when anyone posts a response to an article - not just to a question you may have asked. For example, I am interested in ANY response/question posted to the recent WTL ClassWizard article and would rather have emails sent than have to keep remembering to check "by hand".
The Rob Blog
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