I'm going to second your vote for removal of this user. He is not adding to the community - he is practically a troll. He is going round casting arbitrary votes with little to no reason (see my article where he simply put "very unhelpful" with no reason - just look at his recent messages for many more examples of pointless/unhelpful voting). He is a hypocrite at the very least and should not be allowed to continue skewing article ratings. Ed

Hi there, So far as I can tell, graphics/web/advert designers are expensive, slow and hard to work with. Trying to create high quality ads is just painful: You can spend weeks waiting, re-designing and shelling out money before you get what you want and that may be fine once (it may even be fine twice if you're in a big company with a big budget), but what if you're a small to medium business? So here are my quick questions (just a bit of research): Would you use a graphics/web/marketing designer? If not, why not? (e.g. too expensive, too slow etc.) If you could do it yourself, easily and cheaply, would you? Just interested, Ed

Oh and just in case, here's the petition itself! Currently at just over 9,000: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/keep-piers-morgan-usa/cbpHr9R2?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl[^]

But what you have to love is that over 8,000 people in the UK have signed a formal petition to keep him in the US! http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/01/03/piers-morgan-anti-deportation-petition-claims-no-one-in-uk-wants-him/[^]

Second that - I've had 2,512 points disappear suddenly! Ed

My opinion: It's fantastic and finally a decent version of static typing for JavaScript with integration for (my favourite IDE - I admit extreme prejudice here) Visual Studio - it doesn't get much better! You can try it out here: http://www.typescriptlang.org/Playground/[^] When I say "try it out", I mean type in code, use the intelli-sense, see the compiled JavaScript output and run it all within your browser (I'm using Chrome but they say it works across the major browsers). I've been watched the video and been playing about with it for about half an hour and already wish this had been released years ago - would have made web development and debugging soooo much easier! I would not class this as "Yet another" - It is so much better than anything else I have seen. Oh and for all those people that are "oh but we love how JavaScript doesn't have static typing", don't worry TypeScript will still let you do that and it will let you mix 'n' match traditional JS code with TypeScript code. I think Microsoft are on to a winner here (whatever their commercial reasoning may be). Another brilliant development step forward for Microsoft! (And one that was very much needed - writing JS code in Visual Studio 2010 is dire - not that anything else is any better that is...) Ed

Even after reading your post it took me a minute or two to find it - are the CP developers learning from Google's style? :laugh: 5+ Ed

:laugh: Anytime!

Not seen the news over the past few months? Take a look: http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/microsoft-discontinues-use-of-metro-name-2012083/ No-one is allowed to call it "Metro", it's "Windows 8 Style" now. Best explanation I've seen is that Microsoft failed to do a trademark search and another company with the Metro trademark has forced Microsoft to back-track on the name Ed

Rage wrote:

Metro

*ehem...* Don't let Microsoft catch you using that word...

As far as I'm aware you can't - it's an anonymous approval system (which is good). As per the bug I've reported, you can only find out which Platinum members rejected your article (should that be the case). Ed

No I know how the approvals work - something is published once 5 Editors approve it (not necessarily Platinum - look up the rankings). What I was wondering was why, when an article is NOT approved, it puts a message at the top saying "This item was closed....by [Editors who reported names]", except that the editors name only usually include 2 or 3 members and only Platinum ones, yet to have been closed/rejected it must have had at least 5 reports. It seems very odd to me... Thanks anyway, Ed

Over the past few days a number of articles have been posted (current Bugs/Suggestions posts one of them: Why you should rewrite your code for the new C++ 11 && operator[^]) that have been really poor quality or just not up to scratch. I have just reported the following tip/trick as incomplete as it is missing the required downloads and is just not a good tip/trick really: Simple Flash Uploader[^] How on earth did that slip through the net? There is even a report option in the approvals process for missing downloads/images! It seems that there is suddenly a number of unknown (to me) members that are abusing the approvals process and allowing poor quality articles to be published. I think this should be investigated to find out who or what is causing this reasonably sudden and recent degradation in the approvals system. Thanks, Ed

Erm...right... Okay so does the Noise setting set what value classes as a low vote then? Sorry for my confusion I just didn't think I had changed any setting like this recently...perhaps I did without realising. Anyway, thanks, Ed

Hi, So recently I've been noticing that posts in any forum that receive any vote value lower than 5 end up with the silver Low Vote colour. This must be a bug. It only used to be for values < 3, wasn't it? Now it's < 5. Interestingly, if a message has no votes, it just uses the normal, un-voted colour. Ed (P.s. I did search this forum to try and find something else highlighting this issue but didn't find anything.) Edit: Example here at the moment: http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4356216/Every-cloud-has-a-silver-lining.aspx[^] Rating is 3.88 yet is has the silver low vote colour - this happens for 4 and 4.5 etc. Only absolute 5 seems to get the correct colour. Or this one: http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4355262/So-coooool.aspx[^] Rating 4.75 yet displayed in Silver.

I wasn't sure where to put this so Site Bugs/Suggestions seemed like a likely place to get an answer. It's been "bugging" me for a while this one so here goes: When reporting/approving an article, why when an article has had 5 reports and doesn't get published, does it not show all five member's names who reported it? It only seems to show the names of people who are Platinum in something (or some other selection system?). Can anyone explain what is actually happening and what the logic behind it is? Thanks, Ed

Thanks to Hitch Hiker, there is a word for this - "...the worst word in the universe.......Oh Belgium man! Belgium!" - ;)

Oh right okay sounds good - thanks :D Ed

Hi there, I have been looking for this for a while now - a way to turn off the little red notification that appears in the top right corner of CP when you have a message. I mean off so that it never appears in the first place - I've worked out how to mark it as read to get it to disappear... If it's not possible, can I suggest an options in Settings somewhere that turns these them off? Thanks very much, Ed

Yes there probably is (Nectar card, Sainsbury's card...in fact every supermarket seems to run its own credit card system in some form or other!) Thanks! :) I don't think I really remember the last time I actually stopped being busy with something (excluding holidays & some evening relaxing - we are all allowed those ;p ). Take a look at my profile - I updated my info this morning (before it had no info...). I have plenty of ambition and a lot of drive so I think I'll be going places soon :) Ed