The making of Code Project...
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Hello Chris, A lot of CP members have Thursday 6th July, 2000 as their join-date. Is that the day when CP was launched? Can you put up a CP-history section so that new members like me can learn about how CP came into being. You can list some CP trivia and CP milestones. I am sure a lot of people would be very interested in learning how the code project came into being. Were there any inter-site wars with other similar sites like code-guru? Things like that.... and oops, almost forgot [sorry david], how did Bob come into being and how did David become Bob's god-father? Regards Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain
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Hello Chris, A lot of CP members have Thursday 6th July, 2000 as their join-date. Is that the day when CP was launched? Can you put up a CP-history section so that new members like me can learn about how CP came into being. You can list some CP trivia and CP milestones. I am sure a lot of people would be very interested in learning how the code project came into being. Were there any inter-site wars with other similar sites like code-guru? Things like that.... and oops, almost forgot [sorry david], how did Bob come into being and how did David become Bob's god-father? Regards Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain
The Making of CodeProject, if told in one sitting would rival something written by Hector. It's a tale of dreams, of toil, of a coming together and sundering apart. It's a tale of heroes, of villians, of tireless dedication and small green aliens. It stretches across 3 continents and has a cast of millions. It's also the sort of thing that would get my ass sued if I told it the colourful way I'd like it to be told :D I've been meaning to write the whole thing down in one place and maybe one day I will. It's a wild story. But the quick answers: Originally I ran CodeGuru under it's then owner, Zafir Anjum. He did scripts and biz, I did everything else. Helping me were about 20 very cool guys and girls doing editing. Tom Archer came on board and we split admin duties, and Essam Ehmad was doing book reviews and writing the newsletter. Then one day it was sold, and we no longer had a place to hang out. I was bummed, as was David Cunningham of Dundas Software. We got our heads together and he offered to have Dundas sponsor a new site if I thought it could be done. 6 weeks later CodeTools was born. Two weeks later after a quick trademark check CodeTools was hastily retired and the name changed to CodeProject. 2 years down the track we have MSDN Magazine joining as sponsors, 1500 articles, and 22,000 registered users, The content management scripts comprise 50,795 lines of code in 481 files (not including articles themselves) all working in a semblance of order to handle 26 million hits last month from 6.8 million pages for 670,000 sessions by 238,000 individuals all hosted on 1 web server. We've also managed to spread the colour orange through many web sites. July 6 was when the new registration scripts went live, so that's the earliest date of memberships. The actual birthday is Nov 15 (this year marks 2 years) cheers, Chris Maunder (CodeProject)
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The Making of CodeProject, if told in one sitting would rival something written by Hector. It's a tale of dreams, of toil, of a coming together and sundering apart. It's a tale of heroes, of villians, of tireless dedication and small green aliens. It stretches across 3 continents and has a cast of millions. It's also the sort of thing that would get my ass sued if I told it the colourful way I'd like it to be told :D I've been meaning to write the whole thing down in one place and maybe one day I will. It's a wild story. But the quick answers: Originally I ran CodeGuru under it's then owner, Zafir Anjum. He did scripts and biz, I did everything else. Helping me were about 20 very cool guys and girls doing editing. Tom Archer came on board and we split admin duties, and Essam Ehmad was doing book reviews and writing the newsletter. Then one day it was sold, and we no longer had a place to hang out. I was bummed, as was David Cunningham of Dundas Software. We got our heads together and he offered to have Dundas sponsor a new site if I thought it could be done. 6 weeks later CodeTools was born. Two weeks later after a quick trademark check CodeTools was hastily retired and the name changed to CodeProject. 2 years down the track we have MSDN Magazine joining as sponsors, 1500 articles, and 22,000 registered users, The content management scripts comprise 50,795 lines of code in 481 files (not including articles themselves) all working in a semblance of order to handle 26 million hits last month from 6.8 million pages for 670,000 sessions by 238,000 individuals all hosted on 1 web server. We've also managed to spread the colour orange through many web sites. July 6 was when the new registration scripts went live, so that's the earliest date of memberships. The actual birthday is Nov 15 (this year marks 2 years) cheers, Chris Maunder (CodeProject)
Now that would be November 15 1999 in North America wouldn't it? Therefore actually November 16 1999 in Australia (where it really counts) so it was actually my 31st birthday present from you, wasn't it Chris? Really, that's what I have been told anyway. ;P Michael Martin Pegasystems Pty Ltd Australia martm@pegasystems.com +61 413-004-018 "Don't belong. Never join. Think for yourself. Peace" - Victor Stone
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The Making of CodeProject, if told in one sitting would rival something written by Hector. It's a tale of dreams, of toil, of a coming together and sundering apart. It's a tale of heroes, of villians, of tireless dedication and small green aliens. It stretches across 3 continents and has a cast of millions. It's also the sort of thing that would get my ass sued if I told it the colourful way I'd like it to be told :D I've been meaning to write the whole thing down in one place and maybe one day I will. It's a wild story. But the quick answers: Originally I ran CodeGuru under it's then owner, Zafir Anjum. He did scripts and biz, I did everything else. Helping me were about 20 very cool guys and girls doing editing. Tom Archer came on board and we split admin duties, and Essam Ehmad was doing book reviews and writing the newsletter. Then one day it was sold, and we no longer had a place to hang out. I was bummed, as was David Cunningham of Dundas Software. We got our heads together and he offered to have Dundas sponsor a new site if I thought it could be done. 6 weeks later CodeTools was born. Two weeks later after a quick trademark check CodeTools was hastily retired and the name changed to CodeProject. 2 years down the track we have MSDN Magazine joining as sponsors, 1500 articles, and 22,000 registered users, The content management scripts comprise 50,795 lines of code in 481 files (not including articles themselves) all working in a semblance of order to handle 26 million hits last month from 6.8 million pages for 670,000 sessions by 238,000 individuals all hosted on 1 web server. We've also managed to spread the colour orange through many web sites. July 6 was when the new registration scripts went live, so that's the earliest date of memberships. The actual birthday is Nov 15 (this year marks 2 years) cheers, Chris Maunder (CodeProject)
Only two years? I feel like I've been using CodeProject forever. How I managed before CodeProject I don't know. Michael :-)
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The Making of CodeProject, if told in one sitting would rival something written by Hector. It's a tale of dreams, of toil, of a coming together and sundering apart. It's a tale of heroes, of villians, of tireless dedication and small green aliens. It stretches across 3 continents and has a cast of millions. It's also the sort of thing that would get my ass sued if I told it the colourful way I'd like it to be told :D I've been meaning to write the whole thing down in one place and maybe one day I will. It's a wild story. But the quick answers: Originally I ran CodeGuru under it's then owner, Zafir Anjum. He did scripts and biz, I did everything else. Helping me were about 20 very cool guys and girls doing editing. Tom Archer came on board and we split admin duties, and Essam Ehmad was doing book reviews and writing the newsletter. Then one day it was sold, and we no longer had a place to hang out. I was bummed, as was David Cunningham of Dundas Software. We got our heads together and he offered to have Dundas sponsor a new site if I thought it could be done. 6 weeks later CodeTools was born. Two weeks later after a quick trademark check CodeTools was hastily retired and the name changed to CodeProject. 2 years down the track we have MSDN Magazine joining as sponsors, 1500 articles, and 22,000 registered users, The content management scripts comprise 50,795 lines of code in 481 files (not including articles themselves) all working in a semblance of order to handle 26 million hits last month from 6.8 million pages for 670,000 sessions by 238,000 individuals all hosted on 1 web server. We've also managed to spread the colour orange through many web sites. July 6 was when the new registration scripts went live, so that's the earliest date of memberships. The actual birthday is Nov 15 (this year marks 2 years) cheers, Chris Maunder (CodeProject)
Two weeks later after a quick trademark check CodeTools was hastily retired and the name changed to CodeProject. Ah, I'd always wondered why you changed the name so quickly. It's ok though, I like CodeProject better. :) --Mike-- http://home.inreach.com/mdunn/ #include "witty_sig.h" :love: your :bob: with :vegemite: and :beer:
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The Making of CodeProject, if told in one sitting would rival something written by Hector. It's a tale of dreams, of toil, of a coming together and sundering apart. It's a tale of heroes, of villians, of tireless dedication and small green aliens. It stretches across 3 continents and has a cast of millions. It's also the sort of thing that would get my ass sued if I told it the colourful way I'd like it to be told :D I've been meaning to write the whole thing down in one place and maybe one day I will. It's a wild story. But the quick answers: Originally I ran CodeGuru under it's then owner, Zafir Anjum. He did scripts and biz, I did everything else. Helping me were about 20 very cool guys and girls doing editing. Tom Archer came on board and we split admin duties, and Essam Ehmad was doing book reviews and writing the newsletter. Then one day it was sold, and we no longer had a place to hang out. I was bummed, as was David Cunningham of Dundas Software. We got our heads together and he offered to have Dundas sponsor a new site if I thought it could be done. 6 weeks later CodeTools was born. Two weeks later after a quick trademark check CodeTools was hastily retired and the name changed to CodeProject. 2 years down the track we have MSDN Magazine joining as sponsors, 1500 articles, and 22,000 registered users, The content management scripts comprise 50,795 lines of code in 481 files (not including articles themselves) all working in a semblance of order to handle 26 million hits last month from 6.8 million pages for 670,000 sessions by 238,000 individuals all hosted on 1 web server. We've also managed to spread the colour orange through many web sites. July 6 was when the new registration scripts went live, so that's the earliest date of memberships. The actual birthday is Nov 15 (this year marks 2 years) cheers, Chris Maunder (CodeProject)
We've also managed to spread the colour orange through many web sites I have always liked orange, much to the horror of most of my "web designer" friends. I am working on my first Windows XP colour theme, ALL orange. Yeah baby! hehe one day I will. It's a wild story Write the book, sell 10 million copies and then you can become that MOL you want. However I still don't see you as a MOL, you will want to get stuck right back in the first day you stop working. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge "In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001
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We've also managed to spread the colour orange through many web sites I have always liked orange, much to the horror of most of my "web designer" friends. I am working on my first Windows XP colour theme, ALL orange. Yeah baby! hehe one day I will. It's a wild story Write the book, sell 10 million copies and then you can become that MOL you want. However I still don't see you as a MOL, you will want to get stuck right back in the first day you stop working. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge "In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001
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The Making of CodeProject, if told in one sitting would rival something written by Hector. It's a tale of dreams, of toil, of a coming together and sundering apart. It's a tale of heroes, of villians, of tireless dedication and small green aliens. It stretches across 3 continents and has a cast of millions. It's also the sort of thing that would get my ass sued if I told it the colourful way I'd like it to be told :D I've been meaning to write the whole thing down in one place and maybe one day I will. It's a wild story. But the quick answers: Originally I ran CodeGuru under it's then owner, Zafir Anjum. He did scripts and biz, I did everything else. Helping me were about 20 very cool guys and girls doing editing. Tom Archer came on board and we split admin duties, and Essam Ehmad was doing book reviews and writing the newsletter. Then one day it was sold, and we no longer had a place to hang out. I was bummed, as was David Cunningham of Dundas Software. We got our heads together and he offered to have Dundas sponsor a new site if I thought it could be done. 6 weeks later CodeTools was born. Two weeks later after a quick trademark check CodeTools was hastily retired and the name changed to CodeProject. 2 years down the track we have MSDN Magazine joining as sponsors, 1500 articles, and 22,000 registered users, The content management scripts comprise 50,795 lines of code in 481 files (not including articles themselves) all working in a semblance of order to handle 26 million hits last month from 6.8 million pages for 670,000 sessions by 238,000 individuals all hosted on 1 web server. We've also managed to spread the colour orange through many web sites. July 6 was when the new registration scripts went live, so that's the earliest date of memberships. The actual birthday is Nov 15 (this year marks 2 years) cheers, Chris Maunder (CodeProject)
As somebody who is fascinated by behind the scenes stories, I'd love to read that book. I think I've got nearly every decent book written about the day to day goings on in our industry's top organizations. As a developer, I'd be interested in reading about how and why decisions were made and the problems you had implementing the technology. Michael :-)
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Hello Chris, A lot of CP members have Thursday 6th July, 2000 as their join-date. Is that the day when CP was launched? Can you put up a CP-history section so that new members like me can learn about how CP came into being. You can list some CP trivia and CP milestones. I am sure a lot of people would be very interested in learning how the code project came into being. Were there any inter-site wars with other similar sites like code-guru? Things like that.... and oops, almost forgot [sorry david], how did Bob come into being and how did David become Bob's god-father? Regards Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain
Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: how did Bob come into being and how did David become Bob's god-father? I didn't know that David was Bob's god-father!!! Regards, Brian Dela :-)
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The Making of CodeProject, if told in one sitting would rival something written by Hector. It's a tale of dreams, of toil, of a coming together and sundering apart. It's a tale of heroes, of villians, of tireless dedication and small green aliens. It stretches across 3 continents and has a cast of millions. It's also the sort of thing that would get my ass sued if I told it the colourful way I'd like it to be told :D I've been meaning to write the whole thing down in one place and maybe one day I will. It's a wild story. But the quick answers: Originally I ran CodeGuru under it's then owner, Zafir Anjum. He did scripts and biz, I did everything else. Helping me were about 20 very cool guys and girls doing editing. Tom Archer came on board and we split admin duties, and Essam Ehmad was doing book reviews and writing the newsletter. Then one day it was sold, and we no longer had a place to hang out. I was bummed, as was David Cunningham of Dundas Software. We got our heads together and he offered to have Dundas sponsor a new site if I thought it could be done. 6 weeks later CodeTools was born. Two weeks later after a quick trademark check CodeTools was hastily retired and the name changed to CodeProject. 2 years down the track we have MSDN Magazine joining as sponsors, 1500 articles, and 22,000 registered users, The content management scripts comprise 50,795 lines of code in 481 files (not including articles themselves) all working in a semblance of order to handle 26 million hits last month from 6.8 million pages for 670,000 sessions by 238,000 individuals all hosted on 1 web server. We've also managed to spread the colour orange through many web sites. July 6 was when the new registration scripts went live, so that's the earliest date of memberships. The actual birthday is Nov 15 (this year marks 2 years) cheers, Chris Maunder (CodeProject)
Hey Chris, I just clicked on the link to go to the SoapBox and I ended up here. Any ideas??? Brian. Regards, Brian Dela :-)
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Hey Chris, I just clicked on the link to go to the SoapBox and I ended up here. Any ideas??? Brian. Regards, Brian Dela :-)
Which link? It's the "msg=" bit that has thrown you here. Lemme take a look into it. cheers, Chris Maunder
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Which link? It's the "msg=" bit that has thrown you here. Lemme take a look into it. cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: Which link? The one at the top of the screen here with all the forums on it. Probably something screwed up with my machine here... I had problems logging in to the secure.codeproject.com site as well... My cookies and IE history seemed to be screwed up. I'd say it was something with IE here. Did you get my email earlier? Regards, Brian Dela :-)