Roots of CP

John Simmon outlaw programmer

Hi, everyone. I was just wondering how you people first got to this site. How did you learn that a place called Code Project exists. Was it a banner ad, link, or search engine, etc. I personally first found this website on the Yahoo search engines. What about you guys / gals ? Chris, how did you advertise this site ? I would like to see all CP users respond to this. Thank You

Michael Dunn

Chris emailed me and said "psst, come look at this site I'm starting up." :) --Mike-- http://home.inreach.com/mdunn/ A recent survey reports that 1/4 of all internet users in England surf for porn. The other 3/4 just didn't want to admit it.

Andrew Peace

I had written my first article and it was posted at CodeJock, which then changed and no longer carried user submissions, but Chris emailled me and asked if I'd mind putting the article here. I said sure, and that's where it all began.... > Andrew.

Fazlul Kabir

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Ben Burnett

When it received the Web Resource of the Month award from CodeGuru.com Ben Burnett --------- On the topic of code with no error handling -- It's not poor coding, it's "optimistic" ;)

Christian Graus

I used to use Code Guru and got annoyed that it constantly seemed to lose my registration details. I'm sure someone there referred to CP and I came over. The articles were good, although the forums were a little slow, so I started coming here to answer any questions I could ( however badly :)). I initially kept using Code Guru to ask my questions due to higher traffic there, but as time progressed Code Project gathered momentum and I've not been back there for a long, long time. Code Project has never lost my password, and I had to create a new one the past two times I went to Code Guru. I wrote them an email about it and the essence of their reply was 'get stuffed'. Christian Secrets of a happy marriage #27: Never go to bed if you are mad at each other. It's more fun to stay up and fight.

David Wulff

I beleive I first found out about The Code Project during a conversation with Stas Levin (BCGSoft) back when the BCGControlBar library was in version 4.7x. I found out about BCGControlBar from the online MSDN Library, after reading Stas's post in the Wordpad example. So, I found The Code Project very much by accident - but once I was here, I was here to stay. David Wulff dwulff@battleaxesoftware.com

Kannan Kalyanaraman

Ya... me too came to the site after it got that award from CodeGuru.com

Wayne Fuller

I started coming to the site because Chris was a member of the Windev mailing list and would answer questions about Windows programming. And boy would he plug the site :-O Wayne

Chris Maunder

And boy would he plug the site Moi? :-D cheers, Chris Maunder (CodeProject)

Bruce Duncan

I've been lurking here since the beginning (well almost). I migrated over from CodeGuru.

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.

Anders Molin

Someone at pocketprojects.com said something about codeproject.com, in one of the forums. I have been here since :) - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"

Tibor Blazko

the same t!

Jonas Larsson

I was doing my master thesis and spent a lot of time at www.godeguru.com. Then all of a sudden there was alot of remarks about "the other site" called codetools that was about to open soon. So I went there when it opened, and even though I could never get the forums to remember my settings ;P I stuck around. I rarley post, but I come here 3-4 times a day to check new articles and read the lounge (which is always entertaining :-D )

James Pullicino

Same Here (2b || !2b)

Paul Watson

Same here, nice eye-catching aD in MSDN. OMG, could Microsoft have done something redeemable? i.e. Have a mag which CodeProject advertises in which developers actually read? WOW! ;) regards, Paul Watson Cape Town, South Africa e: paulmwatson@email.com w: vergen.org

Tim Smith

Hmm? Was I the only one who got a leter from Chris along with a $100 check saying "Visit my site!!!" Tim Smith Descartes Systems Sciences, Inc.

realJSOP

I don't want to start a thing between you and Chris, but he paid me $250 not to any more... :-)

Paul A Howes

I was searching for some Win32 programming information in Google, and kept getting results that included links to The Code Project. So, I started looking around, liked what I saw, signed up, and posted my first article last week! :-) -- Paul "I drank... WHAT?"

Nick Carruthers

Same here. Kind of funny how it has since pretty much displaced CodeGuru. Oh how the times have changed. I sent in the two articles I had posted on GodeGuru, and soon after got an enthusiastic "thank you" from Chris. That was nice. :-) Nick