Export of 'My bookmarks'
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Hello, I wanted to suggest an export feature of 'My Bookmarks'. I'm not saying just the urls stored in there, but also the associated webpages, images, source code etc. Perhaps the optimal final format could be a Html Help file (CHM). Imagine exporting all your codeproject bookmarks into a chm which you can carry anywhere you want and read your bookmarked articles when you want/can. If it can be done, I think it would be quite helpful. Zulu
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Hello, I wanted to suggest an export feature of 'My Bookmarks'. I'm not saying just the urls stored in there, but also the associated webpages, images, source code etc. Perhaps the optimal final format could be a Html Help file (CHM). Imagine exporting all your codeproject bookmarks into a chm which you can carry anywhere you want and read your bookmarked articles when you want/can. If it can be done, I think it would be quite helpful. Zulu
zulu wrote:
Html Help file (CHM).
Why? But that should be a bulky binary file. Isn't it? :confused: Rather than this, how about exporting it to something like Google Accounts Bookmarks or a similar hosted webservice format? That should be more user-friendly. What do you feel? :)
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zulu wrote:
Html Help file (CHM).
Why? But that should be a bulky binary file. Isn't it? :confused: Rather than this, how about exporting it to something like Google Accounts Bookmarks or a similar hosted webservice format? That should be more user-friendly. What do you feel? :)
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Google Accounts Bookmarks or similar service is a good idea, but it would still require having an internet connection and on top of that, does it save the whole page including all attachments and images? I don't see much difference from exporting the 'my bookmarks' page into another simple 'bookmark' format. What I would like is to export everything (articles and all associated files) into a single file, a sort of local repository of all che code project articles I'm interested in, so that I can access it at any time, anywhere. In regard to the final file being bulky, if you consider even 1Mb on average per article, even if you have 100 bookmarks it's gonna be a 100mb file, which by current standard I don't consider bulky at all. Perhaps the export application, instead of running on the website, it could be developed as a desktop application, which would periodically/manually check your bookmarks on code project, and syncronize your local version, updating your local chm file. In this way, if you have a really large number of bookmarks, you will wave to 'export' a large amount of data only once, successive export could be very fast and small. Perhaps, the bookmarks downloader/syncronizer could even be developed as a library that could be reused by other applications. For example, I am developing a personal knowledge base application where I store all information I may need, including entire articles picked from various websites, and this library could be used to integrate code project articles into this personal knowledge base, which also happens to be in Html Help format. Zulu
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Google Accounts Bookmarks or similar service is a good idea, but it would still require having an internet connection and on top of that, does it save the whole page including all attachments and images? I don't see much difference from exporting the 'my bookmarks' page into another simple 'bookmark' format. What I would like is to export everything (articles and all associated files) into a single file, a sort of local repository of all che code project articles I'm interested in, so that I can access it at any time, anywhere. In regard to the final file being bulky, if you consider even 1Mb on average per article, even if you have 100 bookmarks it's gonna be a 100mb file, which by current standard I don't consider bulky at all. Perhaps the export application, instead of running on the website, it could be developed as a desktop application, which would periodically/manually check your bookmarks on code project, and syncronize your local version, updating your local chm file. In this way, if you have a really large number of bookmarks, you will wave to 'export' a large amount of data only once, successive export could be very fast and small. Perhaps, the bookmarks downloader/syncronizer could even be developed as a library that could be reused by other applications. For example, I am developing a personal knowledge base application where I store all information I may need, including entire articles picked from various websites, and this library could be used to integrate code project articles into this personal knowledge base, which also happens to be in Html Help format. Zulu
20,000 users, all exporting 100 Mb data - Chris's hamsters are going to be knackered.
"More functions should disregard input values and just return 12. It would make life easier." - comment posted on WTF
"This time yesterday, I still had 24 hours to meet the deadline I've just missed today."
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20,000 users, all exporting 100 Mb data - Chris's hamsters are going to be knackered.
"More functions should disregard input values and just return 12. It would make life easier." - comment posted on WTF
"This time yesterday, I still had 24 hours to meet the deadline I've just missed today."
Well, first of all I don't know the number of visitors of code project per day, but I don't think all of them would export 100Mb of data together. Secondly, how much data does the code project website have to push everyday anyways.. a LOT. I think it can cope pretty fine with client applications downloading 100Mb once and then a couple more everytime bookmarks are syncronized after the initial download, assuming all user have a huge list of bookmarks anyways, which I doubt. But, I don't know the figures, so Chris is the only one who can tell and evaluate if this is a possible thing. Zulu
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Well, first of all I don't know the number of visitors of code project per day, but I don't think all of them would export 100Mb of data together. Secondly, how much data does the code project website have to push everyday anyways.. a LOT. I think it can cope pretty fine with client applications downloading 100Mb once and then a couple more everytime bookmarks are syncronized after the initial download, assuming all user have a huge list of bookmarks anyways, which I doubt. But, I don't know the figures, so Chris is the only one who can tell and evaluate if this is a possible thing. Zulu
zulu wrote:
Secondly, how much data does the code project website have to push everyday anyways.. a LOT.
The new CodeProject, which Chris and Co. are working on and promising time and again and which they say they are making in ASP.NET should be able to achieve this. :)
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