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    Paul Charles
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    Looks like Earthweb have finally got round to updating www.codeguru.com, still going have to go someway to beat codeproject. Especially in regards to how often articles appear and the quality of their formatting

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      Looks like Earthweb have finally got round to updating www.codeguru.com, still going have to go someway to beat codeproject. Especially in regards to how often articles appear and the quality of their formatting

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      JWood
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      Code Guru? It was a jumbled mess of half useful code, strange comments and confusing menus last time I looked.


      My neighbours think I am crazy - but they don't know that I have a trampoline. All they see my head bobbing up and down over the fence every five seconds

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        Looks like Earthweb have finally got round to updating www.codeguru.com, still going have to go someway to beat codeproject. Especially in regards to how often articles appear and the quality of their formatting

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        Joshua Quick
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        About 4 years ago, CodeGuru was my favorite development website. It was much more popular back then. But then Chris stopped working there and formed CodeProject, which is far more superior. Hey Chris! Can you give us a history lesson on this one?

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          Looks like Earthweb have finally got round to updating www.codeguru.com, still going have to go someway to beat codeproject. Especially in regards to how often articles appear and the quality of their formatting

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          JohnJ
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          I presume that Nish will be flogged at dawn by :bob: :omg: or at least have his Internet connection speed halved :~ for daring to get his name near the top of their new front page[^]:-D John Hudson I want to see Gollum chomping Frodo's ring finger off and dipping it in Soy Sauce :wtf::eek: http://www.rainbow-innov.co.uk[^]

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            Code Guru? It was a jumbled mess of half useful code, strange comments and confusing menus last time I looked.


            My neighbours think I am crazy - but they don't know that I have a trampoline. All they see my head bobbing up and down over the fence every five seconds

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            peterchen
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            ...it was the one great site. Those who remember should not forget.


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              About 4 years ago, CodeGuru was my favorite development website. It was much more popular back then. But then Chris stopped working there and formed CodeProject, which is far more superior. Hey Chris! Can you give us a history lesson on this one?

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              peterchen
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              Don't say this have been *only* 4 years??????????


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                ...it was the one great site. Those who remember should not forget.


                Flirt harder, I'm a Coder
                mlog || Agile Programming | doxygen

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                JWood
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                I just checked out the new site - it does look much improved. I looked at it around a year ago that was what I was commenting on. Nothing seemed to fit - it seemed to be drifting or something.


                My neighbours think I am crazy - but they don't know that I have a trampoline. All they see my head bobbing up and down over the fence every five seconds

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                  Don't say this have been *only* 4 years??????????


                  Flirt harder, I'm a Coder
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                  Joshua Quick
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                  I always thought CodeProject was fairly young. I assumed it started when Chris Maunder, who was a moderator at CodeGuru I believe, left that site which I think was about 1999. Am I wrong? How old is CodeProject anyways?

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                    Looks like Earthweb have finally got round to updating www.codeguru.com, still going have to go someway to beat codeproject. Especially in regards to how often articles appear and the quality of their formatting

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                    Stephane Rodriguez
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                    Paul Charles wrote: still going have to go someway to beat codeproject. In one viewpoint yes, but codeproject would face a massive exodus if codeguru would pay authors a few bucks for each submission.


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                      About 4 years ago, CodeGuru was my favorite development website. It was much more popular back then. But then Chris stopped working there and formed CodeProject, which is far more superior. Hey Chris! Can you give us a history lesson on this one?

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                      OK boys and girls, gather round... A long, long time ago, back when the world was newer and the grass was greener and internet stocks were on speed, a young man named Zafir Anjum started a website to host chapters of a book he was writing. The site soon became known as the MFC Programmer's Sourcebook and it was Good. Soon, a few caring, sharing, and, in my case, easily distractable people started sending Zafir whitepapers to complement the chapters he had posted, and the site grew. As it grew, more people used his site, and more people contributed. One day it all grew so big that Zafir decided to change the name to CodeGuru and bring a few of us on board properly in order to spread the load and make the site Better. Life was good. The birds chirped each morning, developers read the site, participated in the forums, and sent angry email about broken links. I was running the day-to-day site business while Zafir fed the gnomes running the backend system. And the site grew. Soon Tom Archer came on board to help take some more of the load. There were also about 20 volunteers in varying degrees of busyness handling article submissions. Developers developed, authors submitted, advertisers advertised and links were broken. Then in July 1999 the EarthWeb machinery appeared and swallowed the site. Zafir went back home to India for some rest while the rest of us milled around, gnashing our teeth and wringing our hands now that we had been locked out of the site and could no longer post submissions or fix broken links. There was much wailing. After 3 months David Cunningham and I decided that there had been too much wailing and too much gnashing and so hunkered down and, pebble by pebble, started building a new site. It would be what we always dreamed could be done. It would be fun. It would be comprehensive. It would be running on flaky Windows servers instead of robust Linux servers. And it would be Orange. That day, November 15, 1999, CodeTools was born. Then we discovered CodeTools was trademarked so 2 weeks later CodeProject was born. Or reborn. Or renamed. Or whatever. cheers, Chris Maunder

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                        Paul Charles wrote: still going have to go someway to beat codeproject. In one viewpoint yes, but codeproject would face a massive exodus if codeguru would pay authors a few bucks for each submission.


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                        Stephane Rodriguez. wrote: but codeproject would face a massive exodus if codeguru would pay authors a few bucks for each submission. Do you think? There are many other development sites out there that currently pay for article submissions. Code Project has much more to offer than just the articles posted here, IMO. ;) - Nick Parker
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                          OK boys and girls, gather round... A long, long time ago, back when the world was newer and the grass was greener and internet stocks were on speed, a young man named Zafir Anjum started a website to host chapters of a book he was writing. The site soon became known as the MFC Programmer's Sourcebook and it was Good. Soon, a few caring, sharing, and, in my case, easily distractable people started sending Zafir whitepapers to complement the chapters he had posted, and the site grew. As it grew, more people used his site, and more people contributed. One day it all grew so big that Zafir decided to change the name to CodeGuru and bring a few of us on board properly in order to spread the load and make the site Better. Life was good. The birds chirped each morning, developers read the site, participated in the forums, and sent angry email about broken links. I was running the day-to-day site business while Zafir fed the gnomes running the backend system. And the site grew. Soon Tom Archer came on board to help take some more of the load. There were also about 20 volunteers in varying degrees of busyness handling article submissions. Developers developed, authors submitted, advertisers advertised and links were broken. Then in July 1999 the EarthWeb machinery appeared and swallowed the site. Zafir went back home to India for some rest while the rest of us milled around, gnashing our teeth and wringing our hands now that we had been locked out of the site and could no longer post submissions or fix broken links. There was much wailing. After 3 months David Cunningham and I decided that there had been too much wailing and too much gnashing and so hunkered down and, pebble by pebble, started building a new site. It would be what we always dreamed could be done. It would be fun. It would be comprehensive. It would be running on flaky Windows servers instead of robust Linux servers. And it would be Orange. That day, November 15, 1999, CodeTools was born. Then we discovered CodeTools was trademarked so 2 weeks later CodeProject was born. Or reborn. Or renamed. Or whatever. cheers, Chris Maunder

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                          Nick Parker
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                          ...and so it was written, the history of Code Project. Thanks Chris. :) - Nick Parker
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                            OK boys and girls, gather round... A long, long time ago, back when the world was newer and the grass was greener and internet stocks were on speed, a young man named Zafir Anjum started a website to host chapters of a book he was writing. The site soon became known as the MFC Programmer's Sourcebook and it was Good. Soon, a few caring, sharing, and, in my case, easily distractable people started sending Zafir whitepapers to complement the chapters he had posted, and the site grew. As it grew, more people used his site, and more people contributed. One day it all grew so big that Zafir decided to change the name to CodeGuru and bring a few of us on board properly in order to spread the load and make the site Better. Life was good. The birds chirped each morning, developers read the site, participated in the forums, and sent angry email about broken links. I was running the day-to-day site business while Zafir fed the gnomes running the backend system. And the site grew. Soon Tom Archer came on board to help take some more of the load. There were also about 20 volunteers in varying degrees of busyness handling article submissions. Developers developed, authors submitted, advertisers advertised and links were broken. Then in July 1999 the EarthWeb machinery appeared and swallowed the site. Zafir went back home to India for some rest while the rest of us milled around, gnashing our teeth and wringing our hands now that we had been locked out of the site and could no longer post submissions or fix broken links. There was much wailing. After 3 months David Cunningham and I decided that there had been too much wailing and too much gnashing and so hunkered down and, pebble by pebble, started building a new site. It would be what we always dreamed could be done. It would be fun. It would be comprehensive. It would be running on flaky Windows servers instead of robust Linux servers. And it would be Orange. That day, November 15, 1999, CodeTools was born. Then we discovered CodeTools was trademarked so 2 weeks later CodeProject was born. Or reborn. Or renamed. Or whatever. cheers, Chris Maunder

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                            Mike Ellison
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                            Thanks, Chris. Have a :beer: on me

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                              Paul Charles wrote: still going have to go someway to beat codeproject. In one viewpoint yes, but codeproject would face a massive exodus if codeguru would pay authors a few bucks for each submission.


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                              JWood
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                              Then the users would have to pay a subsciption fee to log on to pay for that. (Or is this another dot com company in which investors pay for everything)


                              My neighbours think I am crazy - but they don't know that I have a trampoline. All they see my head bobbing up and down over the fence every five seconds

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                                OK boys and girls, gather round... A long, long time ago, back when the world was newer and the grass was greener and internet stocks were on speed, a young man named Zafir Anjum started a website to host chapters of a book he was writing. The site soon became known as the MFC Programmer's Sourcebook and it was Good. Soon, a few caring, sharing, and, in my case, easily distractable people started sending Zafir whitepapers to complement the chapters he had posted, and the site grew. As it grew, more people used his site, and more people contributed. One day it all grew so big that Zafir decided to change the name to CodeGuru and bring a few of us on board properly in order to spread the load and make the site Better. Life was good. The birds chirped each morning, developers read the site, participated in the forums, and sent angry email about broken links. I was running the day-to-day site business while Zafir fed the gnomes running the backend system. And the site grew. Soon Tom Archer came on board to help take some more of the load. There were also about 20 volunteers in varying degrees of busyness handling article submissions. Developers developed, authors submitted, advertisers advertised and links were broken. Then in July 1999 the EarthWeb machinery appeared and swallowed the site. Zafir went back home to India for some rest while the rest of us milled around, gnashing our teeth and wringing our hands now that we had been locked out of the site and could no longer post submissions or fix broken links. There was much wailing. After 3 months David Cunningham and I decided that there had been too much wailing and too much gnashing and so hunkered down and, pebble by pebble, started building a new site. It would be what we always dreamed could be done. It would be fun. It would be comprehensive. It would be running on flaky Windows servers instead of robust Linux servers. And it would be Orange. That day, November 15, 1999, CodeTools was born. Then we discovered CodeTools was trademarked so 2 weeks later CodeProject was born. Or reborn. Or renamed. Or whatever. cheers, Chris Maunder

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                                Mazdak
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                                Sweet dream CPains. We have nice story to tell children at nights now. :zzz: :rolleyes: Mazy "A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it." - Bob Hope

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                                  Looks like Earthweb have finally got round to updating www.codeguru.com, still going have to go someway to beat codeproject. Especially in regards to how often articles appear and the quality of their formatting

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                                  Mazdak
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                                  Paul Charles wrote: still going have to go someway to beat codeproject Defenitly they can't. Their user interface improved but I believe one of the most reason which CP take over other sites its really easy and nice interface,specially its furom(I mean DHTML option which I've never seen any other place), and articles are easy to read too cause they don't force users to going through new pages for ling articles....well, thats my opinion. :-) Mazy "A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it." - Bob Hope

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                                    Then the users would have to pay a subsciption fee to log on to pay for that. (Or is this another dot com company in which investors pay for everything)


                                    My neighbours think I am crazy - but they don't know that I have a trampoline. All they see my head bobbing up and down over the fence every five seconds

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                                    Stephane Rodriguez
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                                    May be yes, may be not. Ad banners pay the bandwidth, they could pay authors as well.


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                                      OK boys and girls, gather round... A long, long time ago, back when the world was newer and the grass was greener and internet stocks were on speed, a young man named Zafir Anjum started a website to host chapters of a book he was writing. The site soon became known as the MFC Programmer's Sourcebook and it was Good. Soon, a few caring, sharing, and, in my case, easily distractable people started sending Zafir whitepapers to complement the chapters he had posted, and the site grew. As it grew, more people used his site, and more people contributed. One day it all grew so big that Zafir decided to change the name to CodeGuru and bring a few of us on board properly in order to spread the load and make the site Better. Life was good. The birds chirped each morning, developers read the site, participated in the forums, and sent angry email about broken links. I was running the day-to-day site business while Zafir fed the gnomes running the backend system. And the site grew. Soon Tom Archer came on board to help take some more of the load. There were also about 20 volunteers in varying degrees of busyness handling article submissions. Developers developed, authors submitted, advertisers advertised and links were broken. Then in July 1999 the EarthWeb machinery appeared and swallowed the site. Zafir went back home to India for some rest while the rest of us milled around, gnashing our teeth and wringing our hands now that we had been locked out of the site and could no longer post submissions or fix broken links. There was much wailing. After 3 months David Cunningham and I decided that there had been too much wailing and too much gnashing and so hunkered down and, pebble by pebble, started building a new site. It would be what we always dreamed could be done. It would be fun. It would be comprehensive. It would be running on flaky Windows servers instead of robust Linux servers. And it would be Orange. That day, November 15, 1999, CodeTools was born. Then we discovered CodeTools was trademarked so 2 weeks later CodeProject was born. Or reborn. Or renamed. Or whatever. cheers, Chris Maunder

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                                      Jeremy Falcon
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                                      Ok, it's been a while since I've done the whole poem thing, so here's one dedicated to CP and Chris M. (I hope this is taken in good humor). :) Now I lay me down to sleep, I hope like hell my servers keep. If they should fail before I wake, I pray to Bob my site won't flake. Jeremy Falcon

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                                        Ok, it's been a while since I've done the whole poem thing, so here's one dedicated to CP and Chris M. (I hope this is taken in good humor). :) Now I lay me down to sleep, I hope like hell my servers keep. If they should fail before I wake, I pray to Bob my site won't flake. Jeremy Falcon

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                                        Nick Parker
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                                        Nice one Jeremy. :) - Nick Parker
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                                          Nice one Jeremy. :) - Nick Parker
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                                          Jeremy Falcon
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                                          Thanks! :-D Jeremy Falcon

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