No CodeProject Insider RSS?? No mobile mode??
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I've been a fan of the CodeProject Insider for several years now. (For those of you who are not familiar, this is not the CodeProject Newsletter. The Insider contains industry news, developer news and selected forum discussions.) I realize that there are lots of industry rags out there like slashdot and techcrunch, but the CodeProject Insider sold me with its snarky, insightful, often hilarious subheads beneath each article title. The insider also limits its top articles to the 3 or 4 best in each of the three sections, which makes for a nice 'digest' when I don't have the time to devote to slashdot or allthingsdigital. Back in 2006, I sent the editor of the Insider an email asking why there wasn't an RSS feed for the Insider. (Somewhat understandably,) I did not hear back. It seems so strange to me that an RSS heavy site like CodeProject doesn't have a feed for their best publication! The only explanation I could come up with is that it is easier to count eyeballs in a newsletter than RSS. (The Insider has a big chunk of real estate devoted to ad space.) I was so frustrated by having to get the Insider by going into my email that I cancelled my subscription... but the snarky subtitles drew me back in and I signed back up. Since then, the way I get my news has changed - and it may have added one last straw to the camel's back. More often than not, I read email and news on my internet-ready phone. The newsletter itself is so-so on the tiny screen, and most of the Insider articles link to pages that reformat nicely for my phone, but when I get down to the codeproject forum discussions, I dread going in. The forum has no mobile mode... fonts and controls are impossibly small making reading difficult - and making a post is beyond frustrating. (I'm making this post from my PC because I couldn't complete it on my phone!) In fact, nothing on the codeproject site is mobile friendly, which just seems bizarre for a tech hub with 6.5 million members. I really do enjoy the CodeProject Insider, but I think I've reached my limit. I truly hope that someone out there can set me straight and tell me that there is a mobile formatted codeproject that I have overlooked. Better still, a link to the Insider RSS (again, not the Newsletter RSS) would be awesome!
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I've been a fan of the CodeProject Insider for several years now. (For those of you who are not familiar, this is not the CodeProject Newsletter. The Insider contains industry news, developer news and selected forum discussions.) I realize that there are lots of industry rags out there like slashdot and techcrunch, but the CodeProject Insider sold me with its snarky, insightful, often hilarious subheads beneath each article title. The insider also limits its top articles to the 3 or 4 best in each of the three sections, which makes for a nice 'digest' when I don't have the time to devote to slashdot or allthingsdigital. Back in 2006, I sent the editor of the Insider an email asking why there wasn't an RSS feed for the Insider. (Somewhat understandably,) I did not hear back. It seems so strange to me that an RSS heavy site like CodeProject doesn't have a feed for their best publication! The only explanation I could come up with is that it is easier to count eyeballs in a newsletter than RSS. (The Insider has a big chunk of real estate devoted to ad space.) I was so frustrated by having to get the Insider by going into my email that I cancelled my subscription... but the snarky subtitles drew me back in and I signed back up. Since then, the way I get my news has changed - and it may have added one last straw to the camel's back. More often than not, I read email and news on my internet-ready phone. The newsletter itself is so-so on the tiny screen, and most of the Insider articles link to pages that reformat nicely for my phone, but when I get down to the codeproject forum discussions, I dread going in. The forum has no mobile mode... fonts and controls are impossibly small making reading difficult - and making a post is beyond frustrating. (I'm making this post from my PC because I couldn't complete it on my phone!) In fact, nothing on the codeproject site is mobile friendly, which just seems bizarre for a tech hub with 6.5 million members. I really do enjoy the CodeProject Insider, but I think I've reached my limit. I truly hope that someone out there can set me straight and tell me that there is a mobile formatted codeproject that I have overlooked. Better still, a link to the Insider RSS (again, not the Newsletter RSS) would be awesome!
An RSS feed is definitely in the works, but we simply haven't had a chance. As to mobile, I'm currently using my blackberry to type this. This site should automatically detect that you are on a mobile device but if not then we need to update our browser definition filesm
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP