It seems that both the voting graph and the summary can be touched by this bug. For me one article has the voting graph all wrong it says 2 votes on 4. 2 votes on 5 While the summary says 33 votes. (and they should be mostly on 4 and 5) On the other articles the summary seem wrong For example 23 votes on the summary but 67 votes if I hover the 5-vote column. So it seems both are jinxed. I can provide snapshots if you need them. Cheers Kjell

Is it possible that "history" is lost for some users? This user http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=8697687[^], "Member 8697687" has a pretty good score of 15.000 or so points. Which is remarkable :o considering the membership states 2 months since joining. The CodeProject activity: 20 messages 1 comment 2 Q&A Questions 3 Q&A Answers Im not a reputation hunter, but since reputations can affect rating etc, etc it is a sensitive area at CodeProject. I would really not like to see the reputation system being hacked. Best Regards Kjell

Thank you for your prompt reply Chris. The article was: Number crunching: Why you should never, ever, EVER use linked-list in your code again[^] I do have a small, small suspicion which might help? I do not know if this was the case but it is not impossible. Read on: Is there an "auto save" every x-time units? Even without user interaction? What if you edit in one browser on one computer, then continue to edit on another computer, while still having the "edit" mode on the first? Will the first, old, edit auto-save and overwrite the newer edition?

Is the "save in-process" malfunction problem back again? For a couple of days I have worked on the next update of an article. Today when I was going to continue all my changes are gone. I earlier very carefully chose "work in progress: don't publish". I double checked previews and verified x-times with "save this version" and so on. I even stopped editing and went back to the article and click "update your article" just to verify that my changes were there. Apparently they were then, but not now. All the pictures I uploaded are still there but the other article changes I worked with last night are all gone. This is very frustrating, maybe only off-line editing is the way to go? This might be unrelated but if I now go into versions I see that for the last days where I worked on it it is edited by Smitha Vijayan. Now to my questions. I hope you can help me out: 1. Any way for me to get back the edition I worked with yesterday? 2. Why is an editor working with my "work in progress: don't publish"? If I "diff" the changes from the latest edit by the administrator there is no changes visible. It looks like whatever it was, was removed. 3. Why is this still happening? Human error by editor or me or is the save draft only kept for a short number of days? Cheers, Kjell Hedstrom

Great, thank you! Cheers Kjell

Chris Maunder wrote:

This has always been the case.

Hah. Yeah. I thought so. Just my luck. A "perfect" mix of being overworked, tired and a bug. It sure sounds nice with the save button :-D Thank you

The new editor seems shaky. Is it changing now continously? Would it be possible to have a "save now" feature? Yes I know that it should have a automatic save but for peace of mind it would be nice to "force" a save I just worked with updating my latest article. After 1 hour+ and several "preview" I decide to quit for the day and continue tomorrow. I check the "Work in progress: don't publish" and then I press "Submitt" because I assumed that meant "save" but not submit-for-review (due to checkbox) Result: All that I wrote went away. Now when I try it again I see a text at the top "We respectfully ask that you please read and indicate your acceptance of the contributor's agreement. This agreement allows us to publish your article and outlines your rights and obligations." I try it anew but this time I cannot press submitt unless the "I have read and agree to the contributor's agreement" is also checked. If I check that and try the changes are saved. Obviously something changed with the editor while I was working on it, the behaviour is not the same (or am I just too tired?)

Interesting thread. There are so many developers that left C++ and never even glanced back. If it would not be for MS renewed and pronounced interest in C++ I would be tempted to as well.,, but as long as I love the language and I continue to find highly interesting assignments I think I will stick to it. At least in Sweden there are plenty of jobs for C++ developers., but less compared to number of C# jobs. My cup of tea is life saving mission-/safety-/critical systems and since C++ dominates that area I am OK. What type of companies and products would You like to work with?

mark merrens wrote:

I've always felt that part of my job is to offer an opinion or to push for change that I feel would benefit the business - I see that as an important part of what I am hired for.

I agree. Maybe I have just had good luck getting senior software engineering contract jobs or as team-leader (or both together). Either way, these jobs always contain leeway to set the path of the software/system and how to go about everyday work to get to the finish line. This often means introducting changes, or improving in areas which would benefit the company. Of course things that are well beyond my "jurisdiction" and obviously crazy as heck I stay away from. Why telling the management *truths* unless it is something that directly affect my team or myself ( in which case it is my job to deal with it)

I think the producer consumer example is the way to go, but maybe a version of that using asynchronous workers would help the most. What I have in mind would limit the threaded complexity to a minimum while still achieving very good performance. If you are using Qt then my answer would be slightly different but in short I would do like this Assuming I understood you correct and you do not have access to c++11 or concurrency library features like future or asynch run., I am also assuming that it is OK that the zip files are unzipped in a non-deterministic order. 1. A thread, maybe the main thread, tells a worker to start downloading one or several zip files. 2. As soon as a zip file is downloaded it is handed over to another worker that is unzipping the file at the wanted location 3. When a zip file is downloaded and unzipped then this is communicated back to the original calling thread 4. Communication between "participants" is done solely through message queues. No shared memory except the queue, that way data sharing and thread synchronization issues are minimal. 5. The "design pattern" I have in mind for this is the active object. There is plenty of material if you google for it. My favourite is Herb Sutters take on it. I wrote my version of active object, which should be easy to use, maybe after making minimal change to use whatever thread library you use. Another example., although more of the fire and forget nature than your scenario., is the asynchronous logger g2log that I recently wrote about. Check in the code how the messages are passed from the g2logworker to it's thread internal and you will see how easy it is

Hi Sean, Thank you for your offer. I will take you up on that (a)). I will not go crazy with the formatting but it would be nice to try to manage it myself. If the only disadvantage is a tag that says "unedited" then that is OK for me. Thank you -- Kjell Hedstrom

I see. Yes that is the way I used to do it. 1) My question came up when I wanted to change the "introduction text" (see link in my top post) since that is not available in "Get Article's HTML" The "high level" members had problem understanding what it was all about since they apparently had access to editing my article just by choosing "update your article". So I figured if they could do it then maybe I could also get access, at least to my own article. 2) Part of why I am asking this is that I have previous experience in carefully formatted article HTML that get worse, not better, formatting after the editors are done with it (I.m.h.o)

Hi, after a bit confusion I realized that only with sufficient editing rights I could change details of articles I post. What do I need to do to get sufficient editing rights to edit my recent article and following articles? Is it enough to ask here? Do I have to post many more messages, articles etc? You probably have this information written down but I could not find it. Cheers Kjell