Oh cruel fate
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I was just talking to VuNic about how we ended up on CP. I remember for the first few months the only interaction I had with CP was the insider. I kept clicking the bottom two links on the emails and ended up in this weird orange place with lots of people yelling. Then came the faithful day Jordan left. I instantly came to investigate what had happened. This led to my discovery of the Lounge, and the rest is history. How did you guys find this little pile of bytes we call home?
Brad Australian - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
I discovered codeproject when I was searching for some stuff on building .NET applications. After searching one article I also discovered the forums... After that I never went to another website anymore when it comes to visiting forums.
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I was kicking around Toronto as part of a round-the-world pumpkin carving tour. One afternoon while riding out near the east end of the city when I spied a door ajar in a small, non-descript building near the railway crossing. I ventured closer when I started to hear a strange sound. Coming from inside the building was a hum, a sizzle, and occasional brief flashes. I walked up to the door to see what this strange noise was and suddenly a hand grabbed me and hauled me inside. The last thing I remember was hearing an evil laugh, the slamming of a door and the endless chattering of a thousand hamsters running on a thousand tiny power generating wheels. I've been inside here ever since.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I was just talking to VuNic about how we ended up on CP. I remember for the first few months the only interaction I had with CP was the insider. I kept clicking the bottom two links on the emails and ended up in this weird orange place with lots of people yelling. Then came the faithful day Jordan left. I instantly came to investigate what had happened. This led to my discovery of the Lounge, and the rest is history. How did you guys find this little pile of bytes we call home?
Brad Australian - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
I found it during my quest for more programming knowledge. I was at beginner level in C# at the time, and I was searching on Google for a tutorial on something or other (don't remember what), when I came across CodeProject. My first impressions were "Wow, what a nice collection of articles!" followed by "Darn, why do they make me have to sign up to download the sample code?" It took a year before I finally signed up. :-O I remember one of my first posts was in the C# forum, asking if there was any way I could set up Cassini or another ASP.NET server on Windows 98 (to which Paul Watson answered "no" - and I later learned more about the low-level workings of ASP.NET and realised why). :-O Then after that I got sucked into the community of Loungers. :-D Back then I answered a lot of questions in the programming forums, and they had a much better "signal to noise ratio".
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I was just talking to VuNic about how we ended up on CP. I remember for the first few months the only interaction I had with CP was the insider. I kept clicking the bottom two links on the emails and ended up in this weird orange place with lots of people yelling. Then came the faithful day Jordan left. I instantly came to investigate what had happened. This led to my discovery of the Lounge, and the rest is history. How did you guys find this little pile of bytes we call home?
Brad Australian - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
I was looking for an AIM client written in Java, since i was spending a lot of time in the room where they taught a Java class and i figured i could run it there and not raise suspicion with the admins...i've talked about this in another thread... I came across an article with the program and as i clicked on the link i found myself in a pleasant orange place with a lot of knowledgeable people :). I looked at a couple more articles including and "Ajax"-styled javascript menu, which i thought at the time was pretty nice (and still do). I signed up and the newsletter was great, but i ended up losing that email account when we switched isp's. Then i got caught up in work and forgot. Then about a year later i remembered about this place, and all i knew was i had to look for the same article, and if i landed at a place that was orange and said code-somethingrather, i was in the right place. I soon found it again and landed my flying saucer here, this time for a long stay:cool:. That's why some people questioned my "newbie" status then, having been a member for almost a year longer. Roswell :bob:
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I was just talking to VuNic about how we ended up on CP. I remember for the first few months the only interaction I had with CP was the insider. I kept clicking the bottom two links on the emails and ended up in this weird orange place with lots of people yelling. Then came the faithful day Jordan left. I instantly came to investigate what had happened. This led to my discovery of the Lounge, and the rest is history. How did you guys find this little pile of bytes we call home?
Brad Australian - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
Ahh Nostalgia! I was looking for a TWAIN tutorial on the net for my very first 'serious' project at my first job. Google turned up this [^] article here at CP. I was looking for help on the WIN32 and MFC and once again, google pointed me to CP. I shared the links with all my friends and one of them pointed me to the Soapbox X| Finally, I discovered the Lounge :jig: and I'm here ever since :-D
-------------------------------------------------------------------- If you need a hammer get C and shut up. If you need a nail gun get C++ and shut up. If you don't need *those* things (and good design should tell you) then by all means get a factory, factory, factory. --code-frog@codeproject
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I was just talking to VuNic about how we ended up on CP. I remember for the first few months the only interaction I had with CP was the insider. I kept clicking the bottom two links on the emails and ended up in this weird orange place with lots of people yelling. Then came the faithful day Jordan left. I instantly came to investigate what had happened. This led to my discovery of the Lounge, and the rest is history. How did you guys find this little pile of bytes we call home?
Brad Australian - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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I was just talking to VuNic about how we ended up on CP. I remember for the first few months the only interaction I had with CP was the insider. I kept clicking the bottom two links on the emails and ended up in this weird orange place with lots of people yelling. Then came the faithful day Jordan left. I instantly came to investigate what had happened. This led to my discovery of the Lounge, and the rest is history. How did you guys find this little pile of bytes we call home?
Brad Australian - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
Bradml wrote:
How did you guys find this little pile of bytes we call home?
Simply because they rejected my admission into the insane asylum, and this was the closest place to it. :) In all seriousness I ended up here as a result of a Google search (and being completely lost with the MSDN) but don’t remember what I was searching for. :~
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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I was just talking to VuNic about how we ended up on CP. I remember for the first few months the only interaction I had with CP was the insider. I kept clicking the bottom two links on the emails and ended up in this weird orange place with lots of people yelling. Then came the faithful day Jordan left. I instantly came to investigate what had happened. This led to my discovery of the Lounge, and the rest is history. How did you guys find this little pile of bytes we call home?
Brad Australian - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
i got Chris M's email, when he announced to a group of CodeGuru people that he'd started CP. i can't verify, but i think i've been here since the first day it went public. at least, my CP ID is low enough that i doubt it was on-line too long before i got here.
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i got Chris M's email, when he announced to a group of CodeGuru people that he'd started CP. i can't verify, but i think i've been here since the first day it went public. at least, my CP ID is low enough that i doubt it was on-line too long before i got here.
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Chris Losinger wrote:
when he announced to a group of CodeGuru people that he'd started CP.
Yep, I remembered that and when I visited codeproject back then, there were only 50 people sign up as members. I didn't sign up until much later, when downloading required signing in.
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I was just talking to VuNic about how we ended up on CP. I remember for the first few months the only interaction I had with CP was the insider. I kept clicking the bottom two links on the emails and ended up in this weird orange place with lots of people yelling. Then came the faithful day Jordan left. I instantly came to investigate what had happened. This led to my discovery of the Lounge, and the rest is history. How did you guys find this little pile of bytes we call home?
Brad Australian - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
I was looking for free code on a grid control. Googled and found Chris's code for his grid that is one of the most popular articles here. I asked him if I could use it commercially and he said, "No problem." I thought that was the coolest thing ever and stayed.
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I was just talking to VuNic about how we ended up on CP. I remember for the first few months the only interaction I had with CP was the insider. I kept clicking the bottom two links on the emails and ended up in this weird orange place with lots of people yelling. Then came the faithful day Jordan left. I instantly came to investigate what had happened. This led to my discovery of the Lounge, and the rest is history. How did you guys find this little pile of bytes we call home?
Brad Australian - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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i got Chris M's email, when he announced to a group of CodeGuru people that he'd started CP. i can't verify, but i think i've been here since the first day it went public. at least, my CP ID is low enough that i doubt it was on-line too long before i got here.
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Chris Losinger wrote:
my CP ID is low enough that i doubt it was on-line too long before i got here.
42! Wow!
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I was kicking around Toronto as part of a round-the-world pumpkin carving tour. One afternoon while riding out near the east end of the city when I spied a door ajar in a small, non-descript building near the railway crossing. I ventured closer when I started to hear a strange sound. Coming from inside the building was a hum, a sizzle, and occasional brief flashes. I walked up to the door to see what this strange noise was and suddenly a hand grabbed me and hauled me inside. The last thing I remember was hearing an evil laugh, the slamming of a door and the endless chattering of a thousand hamsters running on a thousand tiny power generating wheels. I've been inside here ever since.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Print this in a plate! :laugh:
:sigh: Still searching for a good resource to LEARN English grammar ...
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.(John 3:16) :badger: -
I was just talking to VuNic about how we ended up on CP. I remember for the first few months the only interaction I had with CP was the insider. I kept clicking the bottom two links on the emails and ended up in this weird orange place with lots of people yelling. Then came the faithful day Jordan left. I instantly came to investigate what had happened. This led to my discovery of the Lounge, and the rest is history. How did you guys find this little pile of bytes we call home?
Brad Australian - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
It's a black hole in my memory, i don't know when i visited the code project for the first time, all i know is that i'm still here.
With friendly greetings,:) Eric Goedhart Interbritt
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I was just talking to VuNic about how we ended up on CP. I remember for the first few months the only interaction I had with CP was the insider. I kept clicking the bottom two links on the emails and ended up in this weird orange place with lots of people yelling. Then came the faithful day Jordan left. I instantly came to investigate what had happened. This led to my discovery of the Lounge, and the rest is history. How did you guys find this little pile of bytes we call home?
Brad Australian - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
Searching for something better than Msdn documentation (Ok, not so hard work ;))
:sigh: Still searching for a good resource to LEARN English grammar ...
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.(John 3:16) :badger: -
I was just talking to VuNic about how we ended up on CP. I remember for the first few months the only interaction I had with CP was the insider. I kept clicking the bottom two links on the emails and ended up in this weird orange place with lots of people yelling. Then came the faithful day Jordan left. I instantly came to investigate what had happened. This led to my discovery of the Lounge, and the rest is history. How did you guys find this little pile of bytes we call home?
Brad Australian - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
I stumbled onto it searching for some .net api call. I created a throwaway registration just to download the code. It wasn't until a year or so later when I found the lounge and created my current login.
Using the GridView is like trying to explain to someone else how to move a third person's hands in order to tie your shoelaces for you. -Chris Maunder
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I was just talking to VuNic about how we ended up on CP. I remember for the first few months the only interaction I had with CP was the insider. I kept clicking the bottom two links on the emails and ended up in this weird orange place with lots of people yelling. Then came the faithful day Jordan left. I instantly came to investigate what had happened. This led to my discovery of the Lounge, and the rest is history. How did you guys find this little pile of bytes we call home?
Brad Australian - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
I was hacking away on my DOS PC writing a modern version of Pong with my beloved Turbo Pascal one morning about 5. I got up to grab another cup of coffee and on my way back to the office, stumbled on a pile of AOL discs I was saving for Christmas tree ornaments and landed face first on the keyboard. When I awoke I found myself mesmerized by the warm, loving intelligence radiating from some odd, green being's eyes. He said, "call me Bob," and the next thing I remember is selecting a username and swearing to support Bob's bid for world domination. The very next day I installed Windows 95 beta and was never able to complete another program in Turbo Pascal. Since then I've discovered a cure for cancer, developed an economic model for finally eliminating world hunger, and perfected a technology for producing sustained cold fusion power. But all of these breakthroughs depend to some extent on a steady supply of baby harp seal parts, and Bob, kind and all-wise being that he is, has forbidden me to disclose my secrets. CodeProject has evolved since those early days into a fount of technical wisdom, woefully misguided and uproariously funny opinion, and something of a house of reverence to my hero, Bob. Alas...:sigh:
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I was kicking around Toronto as part of a round-the-world pumpkin carving tour. One afternoon while riding out near the east end of the city when I spied a door ajar in a small, non-descript building near the railway crossing. I ventured closer when I started to hear a strange sound. Coming from inside the building was a hum, a sizzle, and occasional brief flashes. I walked up to the door to see what this strange noise was and suddenly a hand grabbed me and hauled me inside. The last thing I remember was hearing an evil laugh, the slamming of a door and the endless chattering of a thousand hamsters running on a thousand tiny power generating wheels. I've been inside here ever since.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
A map showing the escape route is on ebay, starting bid £10,000 :-D
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I was just talking to VuNic about how we ended up on CP. I remember for the first few months the only interaction I had with CP was the insider. I kept clicking the bottom two links on the emails and ended up in this weird orange place with lots of people yelling. Then came the faithful day Jordan left. I instantly came to investigate what had happened. This led to my discovery of the Lounge, and the rest is history. How did you guys find this little pile of bytes we call home?
Brad Australian - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
I found some really cool code/article on CodeGuru at some point, and saw mention of CP in the messages for that article. I came here, and have made a nice cozy (if mostly quiet) nest. I remember, back in the day, when CP didn't even have a notion of user registration. To post a message, you just put in your name and reply-to email (imagine that today! :laugh:). I registered on the first day I found out that such a thing had been added (6th July, 2000 according to my member page - I don't remember specifically, but that sounds right). It must have been awefully soon after the initial registration system launch - I'm member 201. I learned so much about Windows development from CP in those early years (and I knew quite a bit coming in). In addition, it was the first time I had any contact with my peers in the industry outside of my job. I was a co-op/intern at the time - I was pursing a BS in Computer Science at Georgia Tech. It was immensely helpful to me to have the academic rigor of Computer Science placed into a professional and pragmatic context.
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I was just talking to VuNic about how we ended up on CP. I remember for the first few months the only interaction I had with CP was the insider. I kept clicking the bottom two links on the emails and ended up in this weird orange place with lots of people yelling. Then came the faithful day Jordan left. I instantly came to investigate what had happened. This led to my discovery of the Lounge, and the rest is history. How did you guys find this little pile of bytes we call home?
Brad Australian - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
Bradml wrote:
How did you guys find this little pile of bytes we call home?
When CodeGuru made the transition from merely dire to sheer unadulterated cr**p. ;) That was sometime in 2000, and I've been stuck here ever since. :doh::beer::doh::jig::beer::doh:
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