Working for CodeProject
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John McIlroy wrote: Hello CP'ers, Cough. CPians. :) Regards, Rohit Sinha Browsy
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa
Ahhh, where would we be without our local police... :P regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Brian Welsch wrote: "blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans. Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Paul, Good idea. The introduction part... that is. I am helping out CodeProject on a specific project. I myself am not a developer, but have worked sporadically on various CP related things over the years. It has been neat to watch all of Chris's efforts pay off in creating this fantastic community. Even though I don't seem to know the basics... i.e. that the correct honorific is CPians, opposed to CP'ers, I have been around CP from the very beginning. In fact, I even offered up a dozen names for CP when it was being originally launched, but CodeProject was 10 times better as a name than my best offering. I have tried to throw in the odd idea here and there. For example, if memory serves me right... it was my suggestion to Chris that resulted in the creation and the name of the Lounge. Not that I'm trying to take any credit... CP is the result of a really phenomenal amount of effort by Chris and team. I've just been watching it all happen. But I have been around, and have a pretty good feel for what Chris and Dave and the community are trying to build. That's why I am so excited about the future of CodeProject. And that is why I think this current job position will be a great career opportunity for an enterprising ASP.Net developer. John McIlroy
I find it interesting learning of lurkers such as yourself who have contributed to Code Project. No doubt Chris is a bandit and probably needs a good decade of holiday soon but I am sure he would be the first to tell us that he could not have done it without chaps like yourself. The environment, the social circle and connections that have led to CP being a success must be an interesting story as well as useful for developers in a rather sticky market. Christopher Duncan I am sure would agree in saying there are many aspects to CP that eyes-down developers could learn from to enhance their careers. Good fortune finding the ASP.NET bandit :) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Brian Welsch wrote: "blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans. Crikey! ain't life grand?
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I find it interesting learning of lurkers such as yourself who have contributed to Code Project. No doubt Chris is a bandit and probably needs a good decade of holiday soon but I am sure he would be the first to tell us that he could not have done it without chaps like yourself. The environment, the social circle and connections that have led to CP being a success must be an interesting story as well as useful for developers in a rather sticky market. Christopher Duncan I am sure would agree in saying there are many aspects to CP that eyes-down developers could learn from to enhance their careers. Good fortune finding the ASP.NET bandit :) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Brian Welsch wrote: "blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans. Crikey! ain't life grand?
Paul, Thanks for the nice words, but I can assure you that my contibution to CP has been miniscule to the point of non-existent. I did have a very tiny role in the very beginning of CP when it was created, but it has been Chris and the long-time contributers (like you and many others) that have made this such a valuable resource. I can also pretty much assure that there are no legion of lurkers here supporting Chris's efforts. He has done virtually 100% of the heavy lifting (and light lifting too for that matter) on CP. I'm not trying to make Chris blush... but it is really amazing what he has been able to accomplish over the last 4 years. The CP team has VERY recently gotten a little bigger, just because of the size of the community and the fact that Chris needs at least 3 hours sleep per night. I think Chris has created something special here, and it's fun to be able to watch it grow and prosper. John
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Paul, Thanks for the nice words, but I can assure you that my contibution to CP has been miniscule to the point of non-existent. I did have a very tiny role in the very beginning of CP when it was created, but it has been Chris and the long-time contributers (like you and many others) that have made this such a valuable resource. I can also pretty much assure that there are no legion of lurkers here supporting Chris's efforts. He has done virtually 100% of the heavy lifting (and light lifting too for that matter) on CP. I'm not trying to make Chris blush... but it is really amazing what he has been able to accomplish over the last 4 years. The CP team has VERY recently gotten a little bigger, just because of the size of the community and the fact that Chris needs at least 3 hours sleep per night. I think Chris has created something special here, and it's fun to be able to watch it grow and prosper. John
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I find it interesting learning of lurkers such as yourself who have contributed to Code Project. No doubt Chris is a bandit and probably needs a good decade of holiday soon but I am sure he would be the first to tell us that he could not have done it without chaps like yourself. The environment, the social circle and connections that have led to CP being a success must be an interesting story as well as useful for developers in a rather sticky market. Christopher Duncan I am sure would agree in saying there are many aspects to CP that eyes-down developers could learn from to enhance their careers. Good fortune finding the ASP.NET bandit :) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Brian Welsch wrote: "blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans. Crikey! ain't life grand?
Paul, I was thinking about the last 4 years watching CP, and I'm sure that many people think that there is no way that Chris could have done as much of the work, come up with as many of the ideas, and done the amount of programming that it would take to grow CodeProject into what it has become. The reality, however, is that Chris has actually done more work, come up with more ideas, and done more programming than it even appears he has done. It probably seems that with a site this big that Chris would have to have a large number of helpers. He hasn't and doesn't. He has always had generous volunteers from the community willing to give back, but other than that, Chris has been rowing the boat virtually single handedly with the support and ideas of Dave helping to keep the focus. Like I said in the last post, and I don't mean to embarass Chris, but it has been amazing to watch!! John
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Paul, I was thinking about the last 4 years watching CP, and I'm sure that many people think that there is no way that Chris could have done as much of the work, come up with as many of the ideas, and done the amount of programming that it would take to grow CodeProject into what it has become. The reality, however, is that Chris has actually done more work, come up with more ideas, and done more programming than it even appears he has done. It probably seems that with a site this big that Chris would have to have a large number of helpers. He hasn't and doesn't. He has always had generous volunteers from the community willing to give back, but other than that, Chris has been rowing the boat virtually single handedly with the support and ideas of Dave helping to keep the focus. Like I said in the last post, and I don't mean to embarass Chris, but it has been amazing to watch!! John
Crikey. I suspected diabolical amounts of effort by Chris, but that is rather incredible. Impressive someone can remain so focused, so committed and on the limit for so long. Some of us may have brilliance but to have brilliance and the work ethic of whatever built the pyramids is rare indeed. Did I say a decades worth of holiday? Make that two plus another lifetime to catch up on sleep. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Brian Welsch wrote: "blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans. Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Ahhh, where would we be without our local police... :P regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Brian Welsch wrote: "blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans. Crikey! ain't life grand?
MMyeah, pass me that do'nut please. <> Regards, Rohit Sinha Browsy
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa
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John McIlroy wrote: Hello CP'ers, Cough. CPians. :) Regards, Rohit Sinha Browsy
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa
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Paul, Good idea. The introduction part... that is. I am helping out CodeProject on a specific project. I myself am not a developer, but have worked sporadically on various CP related things over the years. It has been neat to watch all of Chris's efforts pay off in creating this fantastic community. Even though I don't seem to know the basics... i.e. that the correct honorific is CPians, opposed to CP'ers, I have been around CP from the very beginning. In fact, I even offered up a dozen names for CP when it was being originally launched, but CodeProject was 10 times better as a name than my best offering. I have tried to throw in the odd idea here and there. For example, if memory serves me right... it was my suggestion to Chris that resulted in the creation and the name of the Lounge. Not that I'm trying to take any credit... CP is the result of a really phenomenal amount of effort by Chris and team. I've just been watching it all happen. But I have been around, and have a pretty good feel for what Chris and Dave and the community are trying to build. That's why I am so excited about the future of CodeProject. And that is why I think this current job position will be a great career opportunity for an enterprising ASP.Net developer. John McIlroy
John McIlroy wrote: In fact, I even offered up a dozen names for CP when it was being originally launched, but CodeProject was 10 times better as a name than my best offering I guess Chris was so confused at that time you offered these names, he went ahead and registered all of them :-) Regards, Kannan
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>who hold a valid university degree *sigh* That is really exasperating. :) And John, you should introduce yourself some more to the gang here. We may suck up your time but hell, we are a loveable bunch really. :-D regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Brian Welsch wrote: "blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans. Crikey! ain't life grand?
Paul Watson wrote: who hold a valid university degree *sigh* That is really exasperating. The importance of it, gleaning from John's post and my recent experience, is that a valid uni degree makes it many times easier to get the needed credentials to work in Canada. Unfortunately it wasn't until I had accepted the job and went out to visit the Dundas office that John and Troy found out I never got my bachelor's degree. In my defense I don't think I hid the fact that I dropped out after 2.5 years, it certainly wasn't my intention. Luckily for me Dundas have let me continue to work for them, but instead of moving there soon; I have to wait quite a while for all the paper work to go through. James "When you get frunk whats really fuinny is that you dont really realize you are cdtrunk till you are too drunk and by thewn you are too drunk to give a damn about being drubnk :-0" A drunk Nish over Sonork