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  • P PIEBALDconsult

    New guy brings the beer! What Griff thinks is a cat is actually a variant of Loki.

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    StarNamer work
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    PIEBALDconsult wrote:

    What Griff thinks is a cat is actually a variant of Loki Flerken.

    FTFY

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    • S Slow Eddie

      I don't remember how I stumbled into CP (Yes, I am very clumsy). But it is the best thing I have done in the last couple of decades. Almost everyone here is friendly and very helpful. But watch out for the bad puns they are real groaners. I check the News, highly recommended, and the lounge every morning. Glad you are here; you found the best of the best. Except me maybe. :)

      It's a random chance universe and we are all just riding waves of probability.

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      Steve Raw
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      I'm glad to hear that, Slow Eddie. So far, I feel like it's what I have been looking for. The bad puns are the punneist of them all, ya know.

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      • S Steve Raw

        I don't know what that means ...but I assume it's a good thing? Either way thank you for the warm welcome, Mike.

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        I lived in Kentucky for many years in the 70-80s and there was an old general store and in the back there was an old wood stove where you could go and get a drink, coffee or soda and a homemade sandwich and the old men would say grab a chair and sit a spell. You'd sit down and listen to the old timers tell fascinating stories on every subject you could think of. It was a simple time.

        I don't think before I open my mouth, I like to be as surprised a everyone else. PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.3.0 JaxCoder.com Latest Article: SimpleWizardUpdate

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        • S StarNamer work

          PIEBALDconsult wrote:

          What Griff thinks is a cat is actually a variant of Loki Flerken.

          FTFY

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          PIEBALDconsult
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          A merkin?

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          • H honey the codewitch

            Welcome! I don't want to universalize my experience, but I enjoy technical writing and coding both. This site rewards that. Just won another 1st place, and they ship you swag if you can believe it. It's a huge draw for me, not gonna lie. As far as who I am, I'm a just a lil C++ coder, though I dabble in C# too. I mostly do embedded and IoT both professionally and as a hobby. Also I like the community here. The drama is few and far between, and people are helpful. Discussions here are often interesting. Also the dad jokes.

            Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

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            Steve Raw
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            Oh, good. I like competitions. Have we had any dad joke competitions yet? What would the prize be for winning such a competition?

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            • S Slow Eddie

              Going on 75 in a few months, I believe I have you there :-D

              Wine gets better when it has a chance to Age.

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              Steve Raw
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              Why you're just a whipper-snapper. Back in my day, I entertained myself using rocks and sticks. Now we have the newly-fangled supercomputers that we hold in one hand. I find them to be irritating, but before electricity was discovered, I had to drag around a large wooden abacus. Those were the good ol' days. I even remember being in a car one day, and we ran over a dinosaur!

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              • Greg UtasG Greg Utas

                For most of my career, I worked in a proprietary language and a proprietary operating system. I joined this site when I needed to figure out how to implement techniques used in our products, but in C++ on commercially available operating systems. Various articles here were useful in that regard. But I only became active on the site a few years ago, once I actually started to write articles.

                Robust Services Core | Software Techniques for Lemmings | Articles
                The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

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                Steve Raw
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                I haven't yet read any articles, but over time, I bet they become a vital source of information. It's good to know that this isn't just an online forum, but much more.

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                • R RickZeeland

                  Welcome! as you probably noticed most of us here are using Microsoft tools, including myself. But I'm proud that I'm not only using the Microsoft toolchain, but also using other products like PostgreSQL, TeamCity, Gitea, Inno Setup etc. So I'm curious what your favourites are, hope to hear more from you! :-\

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                  Steve Raw
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                  Thank you, it's good to be here, Rick. I often find that developing w/ Microsoft tools is efficient. That's not to say that I dislike open-source software, but I'm more familiar with Microsoft in large part. As for my favorites? I like using Visual Studio for most of my work. Since I'm in multimedia, tools made by Adobe and Autodesk are things I use on a regular basis. I even use Notepad for writing scripts. I like it because it's simple.

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                  • Richard Andrew x64R Richard Andrew x64

                    Welcome! :-D I am curious to hear the criteria by which you judged Code Project in the context of 10 other online groups? Was it because we're the only one with an alien (Bob) as our mascot?

                    The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

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                    Steve Raw
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                    Do you guys really have aliens on here? This changes the game! If had known that you have an alien for a mascot, I would have signed up immediately. Forget the other online groups! This one has an alien! I bet he's got one of those big heads like you see in the movies. I bet he even has his own spaceship. This place must be good if aliens from billions of miles away leave their home planet to become part of CP.

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                    • T theoldfool

                      Hey, welcome from the oldest guy around. Great place this.

                      >64 Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.

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                      Steve Raw
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                      I don't know. I'm actually pretty old. You know what I spent doing this Friday night? I organized my internet bookmarks. I remember back in ancient times, the best access to the internet required a 28.8 b/s phone modem. It was only the elite people with great privilege who owned the coveted 55 b/s phone modems. You could download an animated GIF in under an hour! You could download a song in just a single day. Nowadays, we have more bandwidth than we could possibly ever imagine, but we only use it to look at cat photos. What would we do without the internet?

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                      • H honey the codewitch

                        It's the computer, or rather the code. I wrote "compiles" rather than "complies" :-D

                        Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

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                        Steve Raw
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                        lol! I'm going to try this. Every time I compile code, I will bang my head on the keyboard. If that makes it work better, I'm all for it. I wonder if I should wear a helmet. A bicycle helmet would fall apart, so I may go with a motorcycle helmet.

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                        • H honey the codewitch

                          And harassing witches! :~

                          Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

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                          Steve Raw
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                          When it comes to harassing witches, Monty Python comes to mind for some reason. I'm thinking of a scene in The Holy Grail where a group of people resorted to nonsense in an effort to justify themselves that she was actually a witch. That movie is so funny.

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                          • N Nelek

                            Welcome Steve. I joined CP back then when writing my tesis. I like the site and was very active. Then I had a break while working in a company that got me traveling A LOT and came back to when I settled a bit. I like the site, I like the atmosphere and I learn something new almost every day I stay here for a while. About who I am... you might have a look to my profile (or any other ones here), so I am not going to repeat it :)

                            M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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                            Steve Raw
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                            Hi, Nelek. Thank you for welcoming me. What you say is in line with what I'm looking for in a developer community. There's a wealth of knowledge and a strong sense of community. I like that.

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                            • M Marc Clifton

                              Hi Steve, I encountered CodeProject over 21 years ago searching for something, can't remember what, and was delighted to find a site where I could post articles. I love writing but never wrote articles for the mags because they were always theme-of-the-month based and I just wanted to write! And here I still am!

                              Latest Articles:
                              A Lightweight Thread Safe In-Memory Keyed Generic Cache Collection Service A Dynamic Where Implementation for Entity Framework

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                              Steve Raw
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                              Wow, you're another CP member who has been here for 20 years! So far, that's 3 people in this thread alone who have been members for over a decade. That says a lot. It's nice to meet you, Marc. Thank you for the welcome.

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                              • S Steve Raw

                                As a new member of this community, I would like to get to know some of you. I researched 11 different online groups dedicated to serving those who develop software. This is the one I chose to join. I looked at Hashnode, Hacker News, Stack Overflow, and Reddit to name a few. While these communities can be a great resource in different ways, CodeProject looks to be the best choice. That explains why I am here, but I'm curious to know who you are, and why you choose to be here. What compels you to be a member of this community?

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                                Amarnath S
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                                Welcome. Me too, just short of 20 years here. Joined in 2004. Was passive for some years, before writing a few articles here. Nowadays mostly restricted to the daily Wordle messages.

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                                  As a new member of this community, I would like to get to know some of you. I researched 11 different online groups dedicated to serving those who develop software. This is the one I chose to join. I looked at Hashnode, Hacker News, Stack Overflow, and Reddit to name a few. While these communities can be a great resource in different ways, CodeProject looks to be the best choice. That explains why I am here, but I'm curious to know who you are, and why you choose to be here. What compels you to be a member of this community?

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                                  jmaida
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                                  Hi Steve, welcome. I was a silent member for a number of years, but since I retired I have more time to participate. You chose well.

                                  "A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger

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                                  • R Ravi Bhavnani

                                    Welcome, Steve!

                                    Steve Raw wrote:

                                    who you are, and why you choose to be here. What compels you to be a member of this community?

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                                    Steve Raw
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                                    Oh, you live in Canada? How do you like it? If I add it all up, I'd say I've spent about 3 years total in Canada. I used to spend summers in Nova Scotia. I stayed right on the beach of Nova Scotia's north shore facing Prince Edward Island. It's one of the most beautiful places that I've ever been. It's nice to meet you, Ravi.

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                                    • FreedMallocF FreedMalloc

                                      Welcome Steve! I joined almost 20 years ago. I asked a colleague if he knew of a C++ DB interface library for a project I was working on. He said to check CP. I did and found an article with code that fit my needs to a T. I've been here ever since, though mostly as a lurker. I got a little more involved when I retired 5 years ago. The main draw for me was (and still is) the open, friendly atmosphere. When a question is asked the answers (and those who choose to answer) are trying to help and not just impress with their superiorority. So, stick around for a while, join in, have some fun. Beer's in the fridge!

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                                      Steve Raw
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                                      Thank you for the welcome, FreedMalloc. Seeing as you've been a member here for twenty years, there's probably a good reason for that. What else could I ask for other than free beer? Over at GitHub, they all drink apple juice. At Stack-Overflow, they binge-drink cheap whiskey and exchange death threats. Over at HackerNews, they all get vanned on a regular basis by some secret government agency. Over at Hashnode, they struggle with Legos and share a fascination with small shiny objects. Let's see, who else is there? Oh, yes, and then we have Women Who Code. Don't be fooled. They use coding as a front to distract from their radically militant feminist agenda. They've been declared a terrorist organization by the UN, and they're heavily involved in weapons trafficking. With all that to consider, I think I joined the right group. Oh ya, I forgot about FreeCodeCamp. It's free because everything is stolen. That just about covers it. Have I missed any groups?

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                                      • A Amarnath S

                                        Welcome. Me too, just short of 20 years here. Joined in 2004. Was passive for some years, before writing a few articles here. Nowadays mostly restricted to the daily Wordle messages.

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                                        Steve Raw
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                                        This is pretty impressive. I don't think it's a coincidence that I've met four members who have been here for 20 years. One of the best ways to gauge the quality of an online community is to look at the member turnover rate. You know it's a good quality group when you encounter so many senior members in just a single thread. It's nice to meet you, Amarnath S. Thank you for welcoming me.

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                                          When it comes to harassing witches, Monty Python comes to mind for some reason. I'm thinking of a scene in The Holy Grail where a group of people resorted to nonsense in an effort to justify themselves that she was actually a witch. That movie is so funny.

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                                          Daniel Pfeffer
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                                          The funniest part of that is the pseudo-Socratic questioning performed by the knight.

                                          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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