Code Project goes to 11
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I came the same way. CG was the best site on the Internet until I was directed here by accident and found the growing number of articles and technical expertise on tap was so much better. The killer was the ease of use and the much better social aspect of CP. This site pulled together the best bits of various other sites (and broke some new ground), so it is no surprise that it is still the real no. 1. As for CG... it seems it does still exist although I haven't seen it in a Google results list for almost a decade. The landing page is a ad wall and the random article I clicked on looks like a NYT piece.
Ðavid Wulff What kind of music should programmers listen to?
Join the Code Project Last.fm group | dwulffHoly crap! So the stories that you were in jail are false, Dave! :-D
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
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Nigel Tufnel: You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where? Marty DiBergi: I don't know. Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do? Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven. Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder. Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder? [pause] Nigel Tufnel: These go to eleven.
That's right. Ten years of Code Project was epic. But what's better than 10? 11. (Or is that 10++?) For eleven years, the Code Project has been helping make your code a little cleaner, a little faster, a little better... dare I say, a little louder. "Quite exciting, this computer magic!" Tell us your Code Project stories. How did you find CP? What did you learn? What did you share? Who helped you most? And remember, don't code in Doubly.On
Thursday, February 14, 2002 (8 years, 9 months), I asked a question about a MFC control. Then got addicted to the MFC/C++ Forum. Then missed the .NET train, but found my way in the Lounge, even if I was tempted by the dark side of the force in the Soapbox aka Soapbox 1.0 aka the Backroom. And now, I probably know more people on CP than in real life. Happy Birthday :bob: and thanks to Chris & team, and to the hamsters. :rose: -
1. Bummer. I thought it had a sporting chance in your climate - it certainly wouldn't like mine. 2. Remember this thread[^] ? Not that long ago... :) Cheers
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
Ah, yes,now I remember... getting old is a bitch. But I think I've found a semblance of an answer. I was reviewing well samples, rather than tap water, just yesterday. The calcium and magnesium levels are rather large, and total hardness is around 1,100 mg/l. That, I think, explains the high pH in general, but I still don't know why it rises from wellhead to tap. Oh well, a little mystery makes things interesting. :)
Will Rogers never met me.
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Now that's just plain mean... :(
Will Rogers never met me.
One thing I've learned from CP is not to be afraid to ask questions. So, here goes:
Roger Wright wrote:
Now that's just plain mean...Frown
OK, could you please supply us an example of fancy mean ?
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek dissappointment. If you are searching for perfection in yourself, then you seek failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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Nigel Tufnel: You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where? Marty DiBergi: I don't know. Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do? Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven. Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder. Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder? [pause] Nigel Tufnel: These go to eleven.
That's right. Ten years of Code Project was epic. But what's better than 10? 11. (Or is that 10++?) For eleven years, the Code Project has been helping make your code a little cleaner, a little faster, a little better... dare I say, a little louder. "Quite exciting, this computer magic!" Tell us your Code Project stories. How did you find CP? What did you learn? What did you share? Who helped you most? And remember, don't code in Doubly.Well, Having the possibility of sharing/downloadable little projects/designs/concepts with whoever gets to CP is a treasure. Plus the daily news...Cherry on top of the cream...no need to spend half a day surfing for what tickles... Anyway...Got to CP coz Google brought me to it... And thx a zillion...CP helped me to switch tech in no time...(went from private language to .NET in no time) Wish you not +1 but at least +10 more good years... Thx guys!
"Nothing is lost, Nothing is created, Everything is transformed" Lavoisier http://wlwilliamsiv.com
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Nigel Tufnel: You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where? Marty DiBergi: I don't know. Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do? Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven. Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder. Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder? [pause] Nigel Tufnel: These go to eleven.
That's right. Ten years of Code Project was epic. But what's better than 10? 11. (Or is that 10++?) For eleven years, the Code Project has been helping make your code a little cleaner, a little faster, a little better... dare I say, a little louder. "Quite exciting, this computer magic!" Tell us your Code Project stories. How did you find CP? What did you learn? What did you share? Who helped you most? And remember, don't code in Doubly.BTW, here's a snapshot of CP from Ye Olde Days (via the Wayback Machine).
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Nigel Tufnel: You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where? Marty DiBergi: I don't know. Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do? Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven. Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder. Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder? [pause] Nigel Tufnel: These go to eleven.
That's right. Ten years of Code Project was epic. But what's better than 10? 11. (Or is that 10++?) For eleven years, the Code Project has been helping make your code a little cleaner, a little faster, a little better... dare I say, a little louder. "Quite exciting, this computer magic!" Tell us your Code Project stories. How did you find CP? What did you learn? What did you share? Who helped you most? And remember, don't code in Doubly.I stumbled onto CP in late 2007 while looking for a straight answer to a dumb question. Found it, too. I joined a few months later and never regretted it. It's a great place for non-tech guys like me to learn in a friendly atmosphere and share what we learn with others. CP is, I think, the best site of its kind.
Everybody SHUT UP until I finish my coffee...
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Nigel Tufnel: You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where? Marty DiBergi: I don't know. Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do? Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven. Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder. Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder? [pause] Nigel Tufnel: These go to eleven.
That's right. Ten years of Code Project was epic. But what's better than 10? 11. (Or is that 10++?) For eleven years, the Code Project has been helping make your code a little cleaner, a little faster, a little better... dare I say, a little louder. "Quite exciting, this computer magic!" Tell us your Code Project stories. How did you find CP? What did you learn? What did you share? Who helped you most? And remember, don't code in Doubly. -
No, that two in Roman Numerals.
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Holy crap! So the stories that you were in jail are false, Dave! :-D
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
In this country we give our prison inmates Internet access so I'd probably be around even more if I was in jail. ;P
Ðavid Wulff What kind of music should programmers listen to?
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Nigel Tufnel: You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where? Marty DiBergi: I don't know. Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do? Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven. Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder. Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder? [pause] Nigel Tufnel: These go to eleven.
That's right. Ten years of Code Project was epic. But what's better than 10? 11. (Or is that 10++?) For eleven years, the Code Project has been helping make your code a little cleaner, a little faster, a little better... dare I say, a little louder. "Quite exciting, this computer magic!" Tell us your Code Project stories. How did you find CP? What did you learn? What did you share? Who helped you most? And remember, don't code in Doubly.Congratulations to Chris & Co. and everyone who is part of the community. :)
Terrence Dorsey wrote:
Tell us your Code Project stories. How did you find CP? What did you learn? What did you share? Who helped you most?
You should have been careful. If all the regulars start seriously replying to each of these questions, those shiny new servers would not be the same. :) Just went to my profile to check since when I am here and it says 3 Years 7 months (wow!). I have learnt something new every single visit to CP all these years. Cheers :beer:
Never forget to Dispose any of the ODP.NET objects
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Terrence Dorsey wrote:
Tell us your Code Project stories. How did you find CP? What did you learn? What did you share? Who helped you most?
Okay, I'll go first. I'm not a programmer - I'm an engineer who sometimes needs to write code to run his own designs. When it first became possible to reach the Internet from where I live - a gateway on a dial-up BBS running on DOS - I had already been stranded for 3 years in a place where there was no library, no bookstore, and no person with a discernable IQ above room temperature. I was going mad. I had a computer, and one sporadic customer who paid me a stipend to code database tasks in Paradox to keep his dodgy Ponzi scheme business running. In search of more information I went looking , the hard way since there was no such thing as Google then. I found a site, CodeGuru I think it was, and joined right about the time Chris was leaving. I don't recall how I found out about CodeProject - maybe an email was sent out... Right away I joined CP simply because the crowd (all 3000 of them or so) seemed much more hospitable. I do recall wracking my brain trying to think of something that I could contribute, but everyone on the site was so much more knowledgeable that I. I wrote Chris to ask if an article using Dynamic C, based on the Rabbit 2000 processor, would be acceptable. He wrote back that it would be most welcome, and that encouraged me to continue with the site. An actual email from the MAN - unheard of! But things came up, and I never finished the project - I couldn't actually afford the parts to finish the hardware, so programming it seemed a waste of time. I spent most of my free time (and a bit at work, once I talked the company into trying out this Internet thingy, and getting hem to let me spend $300 to network the corporate office) reading articles on CodeProject, and tossing in my two cents worth in the Lounge late at night. I learned a lot, made a bunch of friends, and adopted CodeProject as my extended family. I had no other peers, not one soul in my life I could talk to who understood my language. As I learned, I tried writing article after article, but always found my own efforts lacking when compared to the works of other members. But one night in a very drunken state, I got up the guts to post an article - it was terrible, and it is still flawed, just not important enough to fix. Expecting the worst, I awoke to check the responses. Much to my surprise I found, not the well deserved ridicule
Oh man! That was soooooo looooong... My head hurts. :P
In soviet Russia code debugs You!
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I'm actually an engineer, somewhat like Roger mentioned above. I started coding in about 1967 (IBM 1620 assembly), learned FORTRAN in 1968, got a Grader job in college doing FORTRAN, then paid my way working as Research Assistant coding numerical reservoir simulators and hydrocarbon phase behavior calculations in FORTRAN. Fortunately I had the good fortune to work along side a CS grad student named Eric Griggs who showed me lots, opened up a whole new world, and I stumbled upon Algol in about 1972 or so. That piqued my interest in programming as more than a way to earn enough to pay tuition, room and board. In grad school I also started doing some real-time programming on minis to control oil field processes. After grad school I went to work doing engineering (with a slide rule!), but when programmable calculators came along, I was one of the first in line and realized that I could apply some of the CS stuff I had picked up to making them jump through hoops for engineering calculations. I solved PDE's and published an engineering paper based on my numerical solutions done on a TI-59 (that still works, BTW). When PC's came along, I wanted to get a FORTRAN compiler, but they were too expensive, so I learned Turbo Pascal, which was easy after learning Algol. I also learned Z80 and TMS9900 assembly, Basic, Forth, C, C++, Prolog, Delphi, and a few other languages. All of this was mostly done beating my head against the wall with books, since I knew no real programmers and there was no interweb. In 1991 I left employment and, since the oil business was in bad shape, I started programming for a living, as well as doing some engineering consulting. I managed to find a nice niche doing technical software, AI, and assorted related things for a variety of industries. Finally someone wanted to buy one of the programs I wrote for my own use as a consultant in the oil business, so I started doing more software development. Still no interwebs, so I was still pretty much on my own, but I did start to study CS more thoroughly. Fast forward to when .NET was established and I decided to learn how to use it and convert all my engineering apps to .NET. By this time I was working in Venezuela and still no one to really learn from. I found CP while Googling around for information and I used the info quietly for a year or two, then realized how nice the group here was and how much I had learned and benefited from "reading the mail," so finally I decided that maybe it was time to try and contribute. Since I had been mostly on m
Walt Fair, Jr. wrote:
I started coding in about 1967 (IBM 1620 assembly
Wow! Someone else who coded on the IBM1620! My first access to that machine (using a crippled Fortran called Gotran) was late in 1965 at Juniata College in Huntingdon PA. I moved up :laugh: to assembly in 1966. Our math prof had a random packing experiment which took about 80 hours to complete. When Penn State got their IBM 360, he requested some machine time. At first he thought it hadn't run because it finished so quickly. When he got the bill (and the results) he found that it had worked and had taken only a few CPU seconds to complete!
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Walt Fair, Jr. wrote:
I started coding in about 1967 (IBM 1620 assembly
Wow! Someone else who coded on the IBM1620! My first access to that machine (using a crippled Fortran called Gotran) was late in 1965 at Juniata College in Huntingdon PA. I moved up :laugh: to assembly in 1966. Our math prof had a random packing experiment which took about 80 hours to complete. When Penn State got their IBM 360, he requested some machine time. At first he thought it hadn't run because it finished so quickly. When he got the bill (and the results) he found that it had worked and had taken only a few CPU seconds to complete!
We had a similar experience. Our High School made arrangements with the local Jr. College for some of us to use the 1620, so we learned GOTRAN, wrote a simple program, tehn went out to the college to put it on punch cards and try to run them. Unfortunately the computer memory/disk was so small that they didn't have the compiler. So we went back to class and learned assembly.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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It's Dobly, not Doubly. I used Code Guru and then someone mentioned CP, so I followed the link and never left.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
I came in the same way as Christian. i was teaching a windows programming class when CodeProject started and made sure to tell the students to sign up for CodeProject right away once it opened up.
Steve Maier