A CodeProject Blog

OriginalGriff

Care and maintenance of Hamsters. Progress in getting Sean to stop wearing that Mankini on visits. Answers to CCC's about a week in advance. Winning lottery numbers for next weekend. That sort of thing...

Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

Nicholas Butler

I'd love to hear about progress on the CP open "platform" web services :)

Bassam Abdul Baki

Anything you think is of value can be added. The day to day work schedule, the author interviews, some pictures of the CP and the CPian clan. Of course for a blog to be followed, it has to be constantly updated with fresh material. Are you looking for more work or are you hiring someone to handle the blog for you?

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Henry Minute

:thumbsup: :-D

Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

DaveAuld

Nagy Vilmos wrote:

live news feed...

Not possible, it would have crashed with the rest of the site.......... :doh:

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Folding Stats: Team CodeProject

Ravi Bhavnani

I'd be interested in knowing more about:

What's in the works
A "from the trenches" view of what it takes to keep CP running
Dev stats - how the CP team works (tools, processes, behaviors)
Interesting usage stats (stuff that doesn't make it to the home page)
What most challenges the CP team
Suggestions, opinions and rants you'd care to share with someone who'd like to bring a CP like offering (not related to CP's content) to life

Thanks! /ravi

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Chris Maunder

You're asking for the impossible. Sean is a man not easily swayed.

cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

Lost User

OriginalGriff wrote:

Progress in getting Sean to stop wearing that Mankini on visits.

I found my mankini whilst tidying up my bedroom on Saturday. Getting both testicles in one at the same time is no mean feat I can assure you.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Nagy Vilmos

Chris Maunder wrote:

Sean is a man not easily swayed.

Last time, he was swayed out of his head[^] [43% SFW / not for feint hearts or delicate stomachs]

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

Albert Holguin

...but not bugs... new features... and I think the bug list disappeared too, don't know where it's at now... :doh:

Rage

OriginalGriff wrote:

getting Sean to stop wearing that Mankini

Did I miss some thread of some sort ?

Marc A Brown

Waitaminute... he asked for the list of future features, not the current ones! :laugh:

Nagy Vilmos

It is a long established tradition that, should you be elivated to MVP, Sean visits lubed up in his mankini[^]. No one knows why, it's not as if he's paid to do it. :~

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

Bert Mitton

So it's kinda a hazing ritual to make sure you're really committed?

Nagy Vilmos

Hazy. Definitely hazy. Pete woke up in Brighton wearing a Sunderland shirt and a smile after his visit. :-D

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

Bert Mitton

But the important question, how'd JSOP take it?

AspDotNetDev

I'd like to see you blog about:

Major changes (e.g., new hires, moving to new hardware).
Upgrade post-mortems (e.g., upgrading to SQL Server 2008, what problems you had, how you'll avoid them next time or a philosophy of why they were tolerable).
History behind decisions (e.g., using a textarea rather than a richtext editor for forum messages, to bring about the Lounge and related areas of the site).
Infamous days (e.g., the day you decided to implement the konami code on the reputation page).
How you solved longstanding problems (e.g., the reputation graph periodically going missing).
Why you are different (e.g., than Stack Overflow).
What motivates you (e.g., to interact with members every day).
The philosophy of your processes (e.g., how you prioritize).
Future plans (e.g., restructuring site).
Journeys (e.g., the evolution of Bob, Code Project over time, members who have come and stayed or gone, types of members over time).

Somebody in an online forum wrote:

INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.

Rama Krishna Vavilala

Chris Maunder wrote:

If I were to blog on a regular basis about what's going on, what things would you be most interested in reading about?

Your bike rides and tips.

Gary Wheeler

There are a bazillion (wait... let me count... yup, a bazillion) blogs out there that pontificate about software development and web site management. Rather than dry tutorials or Why I Design Web Sites This Way And You Should Too, I would be more interested in specific anecdotes about issues here at CP, and how you addressed them. There's an interesting meta-quality to CP, since it's a web site that, among other things, helps guide others in building web sites. I'd also be interested in accounts of how you deal with the social issues of a global site. It seems you've spent a lot of effort in making the site as self-governing as possible. That's affected site design and its evolution. Finally, I'd really like to see a rationale for abandoning the HP iPaq server farm. I always thought that was a cool idea.

Software Zen: delete this;

Gary Wheeler

I've a mind to delete my post in favor of yours. I don't know if my ego could take it though, given the reports I have seen of Mr. Maunder's rides.

Software Zen: delete this;