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 | Current Bug list - PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING [last update: Mar 30] |  | Chris Maunder | 18:34 1 Dec '07 |
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Below are the latest issues that have been logged or we are working on. If something has been reported here then no need to mention it again unless you've found the bug in a place we've indicated it shouldn't be, or if you have extra info that may help us squash it.
Current Bugs and Things we are working on
- Making the site more search engine friendly
- Adding more explanations of some of our features, including a new news service
- Revamping the programming forums. We have 5 years worth of ideas piled up and it's time to Just Do It.
- Updates to our advertising system so we can try and now show you ads you may be interested in.
- More options for article submissions
- On the unlikely case of a catastrophic database fail the site doesn't fall over as elegantly as I would like. Your yellow life vest is under the seat, or for those in business class, in the centre console.
- Lots of suggestions have been made that are still being reviewed and organised
Recent changes
- Our blog aggregator[^] is live!
- Completely rewrote the Article serving engine. There shouldn't be much external difference, but internally we are now able to cache more effectively and spin-up times after new releases is dramatically improved.
- Pasting links to articles in the forums now looks up the article title and substitutes that for the text, instead of the URL
- Pasting HTML improved in Chrome, Firefox (HTML encoding fixed)
- Odd forum bug which leaves the page empty after editing a message potentially nailed
- 'Friendly URLs' for members. eg. www.codeproject.com/Members/Chris-Maunder[^]
- Forum dropdown in main nav bar now sync'd correctly (long, dumb story behind that one)
- Listing of attributes in articles and older versions of articles was sometimes incorrect
- Minor survey system bugs and administration enhancements
- Minor updates of the Job Board and Catalog
- Using the 'email' button in the forums now works
- Reworked the article search to improve weighting of titles and improve some edge cases
cheers, Chris Maunder CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
modified on Monday, March 30, 2009 5:22 PM
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We are having problems with spoofing of authors, how about if an author is added an email is sent to that person and doesn't proceed until the added author approves it?
In addition removal of an author should only be possible after apporval by all authors listed.
Yes, a pain but this is getting out of hand.
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I do need to do something but part of the issue is that sometimes email simply doesn't make it through to some members because of over enthusiastic spam blockers. This could mean articles are stuck in limbo.
I guess an email "Please approve this" can be sent to all involved, along with instructions to each author to pass this on to the other authors to ensure they get it.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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That seems reasonable. Since all authors involved in something should be taking a look at the post editing version anyway spotting cases where the filters were hungry shouldn't be a real difficulty.
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.
-- Robert Royall
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That's actually almost coherent. Some (most?) of the blog entries have outstripped all previous records of crapdom.
[update] I've just been through all this guy's blog postings. What a huge pile of crap. Whoever approved these should be whipped and then banned.[/update]
modified on Friday, April 17, 2009 3:07 PM
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Hans,
Hans Dietrich wrote: I've just been through all this guy's blog postings. What a huge pile of crap.
Really sad to hear such a comment. I'll delete all my posts and will remove my blog from Codeproject RSS feed.
Regards,
Jijo.
_____________________________________________________ http://weseetips.com[ ^] Visual C++ tips and tricks. Updated daily.
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Hans Dietrich wrote: [update] I've just been through all this guy's blog postings. What a huge pile of crap. Whoever approved these should be whipped and then banned.[/update]
Hey Hans,
I went through his blog : http://weseetips.com/[^]
It's not earth shattering stuff, but they seem to be pretty normal blog entries. Perhaps the CP code didn't pull the entire content and may have just got the first few sentences?
Anyway the guy has removed all his blog entries stung by your feedback, so I guess there's no point in discussing this now 
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Nuked
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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 | Technical Blog - My Article body is not appearing. |  | Jijo raj | 13hrs 54mins ago |
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Well, for one thing, you're trying to put your article text into the DESCRIPTION. Pay attention to what you're doing.
"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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Hi John,
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Well, for one thing, you're trying to put your article text into the DESCRIPTION. Pay attention to what you're doing.
I've just added my RSS feed to technical blog. I've done nothing else. Well, how can i correct it? Any idea?
Regards,
Jijo.
_____________________________________________________ http://weseetips.com[ ^] Visual C++ tips and tricks. Updated daily.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Well, for one thing, you're trying to put your article text into the DESCRIPTION. Pay attention to what you're doing.
John, he's not doing that - it's all automated by CodeProject server side code that pulls content via the RSS feeds and converts them into articles.
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We're working on rewriting our RSS reader to account for the non-standard feeds we've been seeing.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Okay Chris. I hope the new RSS reader will be alive soon. So could you please delete my incomplete entries before getting published? Thanks a lot!
BTW, my blog is hosted in Wordpress.com.
Thanks & Regards,
Jijo.
_____________________________________________________ http://weseetips.com[ ^] Visual C++ tips and tricks. Updated daily.
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I'll have Sean clean it out.
WordPress is the main feed we've seen that uses a feed that our reader doesn't like.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: WordPress is the main feed we've seen that uses a feed that our reader doesn't like.
Hey Chris,
You'll soon find (or rather Thiru and Sean will, assuming they are working on this) that WordPress has several active versions out there, and each with its own quirks. The WordPress site itself uses the latest stable version, but 3rd party blogs and self-hosted blogs will have any of several versions.
I would suggest an intermediate step where it goes this way :
Step 1 : CP pulls the content
Step 2 : Author gets a shot at editing it
Step 3 : Entry goes live on CP
This would allow people to fix things, specially formatting.
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| Location and citizenship | | Rage | 18hrs 53mins ago |
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Would it be possible to add a (n optional) setting telling users' citizenship ? We have often the case of people coming originally from one country (citizenship) and working in another one (location), and I think it would be interesting if in the bio they could provide both information using the flags.
I hope this does not break any privacy rule.
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Note that it still won't tell you someone's ethnic origin. For example, there are US citizens of Indian origin working in Canada. So their location will say Canada, citizenship will say USA but their ethnic origin will be neither.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: US citizens of Indian origin working in Canada.
Never heard of someone in that situation  
Seriously, yes, you are right. I actually meant what you call "ethnic origin", what IMO tells in most cases more about the culture of the people I am writing to than his current citizenship. On the other hand, the contrary must sometimes also be true (citizenship explains more about one's opinions than his/her origin). But three flags in the settings would definitely be too much...
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Rage wrote: Never heard of someone in that situation
There are quite a few such folks
And just this last weekend I met a Canadian citizen of Indian origin who recently moved to the States.
Rage wrote: I actually meant what you call "ethnic origin", what IMO tells in most cases more about the culture of the people I am writing to than his current citizenship. On the other hand, the contrary must sometimes also be true (citizenship explains more about one's opinions than his/her origin). But three flags in the settings would definitely be too much...
Well, ethnic origin won't really tell you much about someone's cultural values. For example, again using Indians as example, first generation Indian immigrants may retain some of their Indian-ness, but their kids will basically behave like typical American kids. The only thing it will tell you is what ethnic origin or racial group a person is from.
Again there are various factors that affect this. Some people do not fuse their values easily with their adopted country's values - and this sometimes reflect on their kids too. But my experience has been that 2nd gen Indians (and probably other Asians too) are highly unlikely to retain any values or social patterns from their ethnic culture.
I don't know if Chris would want to go that route, but it would certainly be interesting - though it would be more FaceBook-ish rather than LinkedIn-ish, if you get what I mean.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: Again there are various factors that affect this. Some people do not fuse their values easily with their adopted country's values - and this sometimes reflect on their kids too. But my experience has been that 2nd gen Indians (and probably other Asians too) are highly unlikely to retain any values or social patterns from their ethnic culture.
The general rule of thumb in the US is 3 generations for total assimilation. eg children of Asian/Caribbean/African immigrants score well above average academically. Grandchildren of Asian immigrants OTOH basically fall to same level as white natives, while the latter groups grandkids plummet all the way to the dismal level of the general black populace.
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.
-- Robert Royall
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dan neely wrote: Grandchildren of Asian immigrants OTOH basically fall to same level as white natives
I guess you have to wait for a generation where the kid fails high school math and prefers his PS3 to reading a book to finally be sure that assimilation is now complete.
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based on the pattern I've seen I think the parents crack the whip enough that even while mostly assimilated they can't get away with that sort of crap, but since the kids don't care personally they don't crack the whip at the grandkids.
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.
-- Robert Royall
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I don't really see *much* value to this feature.
There are many *cultural breed* of people you will meet online today
There are people who are born on their native land, moved to another country (in some cases many countries). In the processes, their ethnic personality got diluted with many cultures and costumes. ( I'm one of them ). It will be very hard to frame such people to their original ethnicity.
This reminds me about a joke I heard long time ago:
A guy got arrested and taken to court.
Judge: State your name
Accused: states his full name
Judge: State your birth date
Accused: gives his birth date
Judge: State your nationality/citizenship
Accused: *stares at the judge and he did not answer*
Judge: I SAID, State your nationality/citizenship
Accused: *stares at the judge, didn't answer*
Judge: Did you hear what I said? For the last time, State your nationality/citizenship
Accused: Looks at the judge, starts talking: My father is Swedish, My Mother is Brit, I was born on a yacht on the Sydney Harbor, Australia, I grew up in Canada, my Wife is Italian, I work in US and have offices in Brazil, India and Korea.....
Judge: Ok, Ok, that is enough. (instructs to the court clerk) write his citizenship as UN. 
Yusuf Oh didn't you notice, analogous to square roots, they recently introduced rectangular, circular, and diamond roots to determine the size of the corresponding shapes when given the area. Luc Pattyn[^]
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