How did you find find CodeProject?
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Hi All, Stuff got in the way yesterday (work related) so I couldn't finish the message I was posting about Bob's birthday, I found him and the site via a Google search for an accurate millisecond timer in VB6, bit left field but the standard timer only went to 0.5 of a second, the unit I was working on spewed data at 0.25 which made it a little unreliable (this was serial port related!). :bob: had the answer all was good delivered the project everyone happy!
I ended up here after googling (long ago) for some code (possibly javascript to create a bar-graph in a web-page). I stayed for the Insider News (and Kent's regular "name that earworm" challenge) and have evolved into a regular Lounge-lurker.
Treading on the toes of giants . . .
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I needed to finish a project, but being too lazy I googled "plz send codz". And here I am almost 20 years later doing the same.
Richard MacCutchan wrote:
And here I am almost 20 years later doing the same
In the other direction - the 2 Richards were scattered through my code base as references :-O
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity - RAH I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Before CodeProject there was CodeGuru, created by Zafir Anjum. Chris and a bunch of us contributed several articles to that site. In 1997, Chris figured he could build a better site - and he was right. A bunch of us volunteered, but Chris did most of the heavy lifting. The early volunteers managed specific sections (there were only about a dozen when the site started). I managed the MFC Controls section which was near and dear to my heart and designed the site's joke post icon. Since then CodeProject has grown beyond what most of us expected, and as we know is now one of the de facto sources of information for C# devs. Congratulations to Chris and Dave and the CP team! /ravi (Member 191)
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
(Member 191
Reminds me of my first programming job. I was employee #6.
Software Zen:
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
(Member 191
Reminds me of my first programming job. I was employee #6.
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
I was employee #6.
Nice! There's something special about having the opportunity to be an early employee at a successful company. To say it's a learning experience is an understatement. /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
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Hi All, Stuff got in the way yesterday (work related) so I couldn't finish the message I was posting about Bob's birthday, I found him and the site via a Google search for an accurate millisecond timer in VB6, bit left field but the standard timer only went to 0.5 of a second, the unit I was working on spewed data at 0.25 which made it a little unreliable (this was serial port related!). :bob: had the answer all was good delivered the project everyone happy!
I'm too old to remember it, or too young )) Ether when studying in university or when got my first and the only job.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote:
And here I am almost 20 years later doing the same
In the other direction - the 2 Richards were scattered through my code base as references :-O
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity - RAH I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Hi All, Stuff got in the way yesterday (work related) so I couldn't finish the message I was posting about Bob's birthday, I found him and the site via a Google search for an accurate millisecond timer in VB6, bit left field but the standard timer only went to 0.5 of a second, the unit I was working on spewed data at 0.25 which made it a little unreliable (this was serial port related!). :bob: had the answer all was good delivered the project everyone happy!
In July 2000 I was looking for some guidance on creating a grid control for MFC. Google pointed me at Chris's article (MFC Grid control 2.27[^]) and I soon abandoned the idea of writing my own. This first introduction to CodeProject was such a positive experience that I signed up and just kept coming back, more for the community than for the free code. I feel a little guilty that my contributions over the years have been meagre compared to what I have got out of it.
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
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It was down the back of the sofa one day, when I was short of cash.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Sounds about right :)
Paul Sanders. If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal. Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
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Hi All, Stuff got in the way yesterday (work related) so I couldn't finish the message I was posting about Bob's birthday, I found him and the site via a Google search for an accurate millisecond timer in VB6, bit left field but the standard timer only went to 0.5 of a second, the unit I was working on spewed data at 0.25 which made it a little unreliable (this was serial port related!). :bob: had the answer all was good delivered the project everyone happy!
An answer on a Stack Overflow article brought me here many moons ago.
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Hi All, Stuff got in the way yesterday (work related) so I couldn't finish the message I was posting about Bob's birthday, I found him and the site via a Google search for an accurate millisecond timer in VB6, bit left field but the standard timer only went to 0.5 of a second, the unit I was working on spewed data at 0.25 which made it a little unreliable (this was serial port related!). :bob: had the answer all was good delivered the project everyone happy!
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Hi All, Stuff got in the way yesterday (work related) so I couldn't finish the message I was posting about Bob's birthday, I found him and the site via a Google search for an accurate millisecond timer in VB6, bit left field but the standard timer only went to 0.5 of a second, the unit I was working on spewed data at 0.25 which made it a little unreliable (this was serial port related!). :bob: had the answer all was good delivered the project everyone happy!
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I toined left at Albekoiky. Nah, a colleague who was a recent college grad at the time told me about it.
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Hi All, Stuff got in the way yesterday (work related) so I couldn't finish the message I was posting about Bob's birthday, I found him and the site via a Google search for an accurate millisecond timer in VB6, bit left field but the standard timer only went to 0.5 of a second, the unit I was working on spewed data at 0.25 which made it a little unreliable (this was serial port related!). :bob: had the answer all was good delivered the project everyone happy!
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Hi All, Stuff got in the way yesterday (work related) so I couldn't finish the message I was posting about Bob's birthday, I found him and the site via a Google search for an accurate millisecond timer in VB6, bit left field but the standard timer only went to 0.5 of a second, the unit I was working on spewed data at 0.25 which made it a little unreliable (this was serial port related!). :bob: had the answer all was good delivered the project everyone happy!
Interestingly enough, I found them the "physical" way. I was looking for tech companies close to where I lived at the time (Eglington and Don Mills/DVP area in Toronto), and they came up. I think they have moved to downtown Toronto since then.
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You know, I did not find CodeProject. In fact, CodeProject found me. A day, while I was on the way to Damascus... :-D
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?" -- Rigoletto
I don't remember but I checked my emails and I have been receiving the newsletter since 2007!
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Hi All, Stuff got in the way yesterday (work related) so I couldn't finish the message I was posting about Bob's birthday, I found him and the site via a Google search for an accurate millisecond timer in VB6, bit left field but the standard timer only went to 0.5 of a second, the unit I was working on spewed data at 0.25 which made it a little unreliable (this was serial port related!). :bob: had the answer all was good delivered the project everyone happy!
About 15 years ago, when @chris-maunder teamed up with us at "LiDNUG" on linked-in to do a presentation on how he built code-project using DOT NET. Unfortunately, I don't know what happened to the presentation, I thought it was on our YouTube page (youtube.com/@lidnug) but I can't seem to find it. We did loose a few of our presentations about 6 years ago, when someone managed to get control of our Google account temporarily, so we may have lost it then. I've also just spent 30 mins looking through the few Live Meeting recordings we had still saved on our server, and it's not among those, so I guess it's definitely lost :-(
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Was looking for some code to solve a problem, and a CP article popped up in the search.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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glennPattonWork3 wrote:
Member since Thu 22 Nov 2001
hearsay [edit]
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
Thats not when I first joined with glennPatton forgot the password glennPattonWork to log in at work, glennPattonWork2 same thing different compnay forgot the password! Well glennPattonWork3 I'll let you guess...
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
(Member 191
Reminds me of my first programming job. I was employee #6.
Software Zen:
delete this;My first job title was 'Lacky' :sigh:
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It was down the back of the sofa one day, when I was short of cash.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
And you still haven't peeled off all the half used toffees and crumbs.
cheers Chris Maunder
