Hello, everyone.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
What Griff thinks is a cat is actually a variant of Loki Flerken.
FTFY
A merkin?
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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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Going on 75 in a few months, I believe I have you there :-D
Wine gets better when it has a chance to Age.
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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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.
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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! :-\
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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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.
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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Hey, welcome from the oldest guy around. Great place this.
>64 Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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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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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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
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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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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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!
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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?
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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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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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!
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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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.
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.
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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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!
Steve Raw wrote:
I even remember being in a car one day, and we ran over a dinosaur!
Give my regards to the Flintstones and the Rubbles. :)
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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When it comes to C#, I'm in the same boat that you were in. It's a great language to know, but it takes time to fully understand, as w/ any programming language. If you want to keep up to speed, languages like C# are vital. I can't say I'm entirely familiar with it, but I can still use it in countless ways to produce all sorts of things. Thank you for the welcome, OG. Once I find out where the mat is, I'll be sure to spit on it. I'm assuming that spitting on the mat is a good thing, but insulting certain cats is a reason for peril. I'm not sure what all that means, but maybe I'll figure it out with some time.
C# is (still) a pretty simple language, though it's getting a lot more complex as these things do. When I started an experienced developer could learn the language itself in an afternoon, no problem - now it'd take a day, maybe two to be thorough. Learning the framework(s) behind it that are essential to use it? Months! It's a quote: A Bertram Chandler - Liberty Hall[^]. The pTerry version is better, but a bit too short and "real world" to be recognized as a quote*. :D * Grebo was a b*****d though:
The late, great pTerry - Lords and Ladies
Greebo had spent an irritating two minutes in that box. Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or it may be dead. You never know until you look. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.
"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!
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OriginalGriff wrote:
many members know what they are talking about.
I hope you're not accusing me of that? :~ I bash my head against the keyboard until it compiles.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
