Thanks Pete! It's not Twister Sister, but enjoy some Christmas Cheer [^]

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Wow Pete. Awesome. Happy happy to you and yours.

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Happy birthday CodeProject! Clicky[^]

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Potluck at CodeProject HQ today. Our new contest manager, Kevin Priddle[^], looked the scariest. Check out the pic here[^]. Happy Halloween!

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Cross-platform tools can generate significant efficiency gains for mobile app development, but their acceptance and usage among app developers is still low. These results are part of a new, free report by research2guidance “Cross Platform Tool Benchmark 2013 - The hidden champions of the app economy". Two thirds of developers, using cross-platform tools for their app projects, realize time and cost savings of more than 30%. More than 70% of app developers say that cross-platform tools are a cost-efficient way for their app development. "Today less than 5% of all apps in the major app stores have been developed with a cross-platform tool. There is of course the argument that apps created with the help of cross-platform tools lack quality" explains Joachim Thiele-Schlesier, Senior Analyst. The results of the benchmarking study support this argument: 25% of developers rate the app quality lower or much lower compared to native apps. On the other hand, 75% of the developers say that they can build apps of a similar quality to native apps. The research results raise the question, why aren’t there more apps developed with cross-platform tools? Given the time and cost saving potential that these tools offer, the app economy could benefit significantly and bring app development to the next efficiency level. The spotlight is on for the cross platform tool vendors. Their communication strategies have failed in educating and convincing developers about the benefits of developing once and publishing multiple times. For app developers, IT managers, but also app services buying companies, the research results suggest checking if one of the existing CP Tools fits with the project requirement before starting the next app project. With the overall positive user feedback cross-platform tools have received and the low awareness they have in the app market, they are really the hidden champions of the app economy. Over the course of the last five years, multi-app and multi-platform app publishing has become common for traditional enterprises and pure app developers. Consequently, "complexity of mobile app development as well as development costs and maintenance costs have increased. At the same time a multitude of solutions, which support multi-app and multi-platform publishing for simple and complex apps, has sprung up" says Ralf-Gordon Jahns, Research Director at research2guidance. These solutions fall into 4 main categories: App factories, web app toolkits, cross-platform integrated development environ

The hamsters were too busy to be in the video. ;-)

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Thanks! That's our very own Adam Yhap[^].

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We know you've all been wondering what really goes on at CodeProject's HQ, so we made a video[^]. :-D Kudos to Kevin Priddle[^] for putting it together.

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One of the world's largest independent communities of coders and developers hits major milestone. TORONTO, Aug. 8, 2013 /CNW/ - CodeProject, one of the world's largest online communities of software developers, is celebrating its ten millionth registered member. The community was co-founded thirteen years ago by Chris Maunder and David Cunningham with the simple idea of generating collaborative content that would help developers improve their work flow and technical abilities. To celebrate the milestone, CodeProject is working with its members to coordinate celebrations around the world throughout the summer. Celebratory events will be hosted by influential members of the CodeProject community in countries such as Switzerland, England, India, Bangladesh, Israel, the United States and Brazil. The events were initiated with the goal of uniting members and allowing them to engage with one another and reflect on both the past and future of CodeProject. "CodeProject has given me so much over the years. I've learned from some of the best minds that I've ever come across - some of whom have even become friends," said Peter O'Hanlon, a UK-based developer and CodeProject member for over 10 years. "CodeProject has provided me with a community of people that challenge, interest and educate me, and interaction with them has made me a better person." As part of the ten millionth member celebrations, CodeProject will also be awarding an amazing software prize package to two lucky members in honour of this major milestone. Prizes include a one-year CodeFluent Entities Ultimate license from SoftFluent, a developer license of WebUI Studio from Intersoft Solutions, an Aspose Total suite from Aspose, and an SQL Developer Bundle from Redgate, and much more. "When I wrote CodeProject thirteen years ago, the site started off with one hundred or so articles written by me, plus another thousand or so from just over 750 developers that I knew felt the same way about wanting to share their code and expertise with fellow developers," said Maunder, co-founder of CodeProject. "The more code we collectively gave away, the more people used CodeProject, and the more developers joined us in sharing code. Today, over thirty-five thousand high-quality articles live on CodeProject. We are celebrating our ten million members, and look forward to welcoming the next ten million." For more information on CodeProject's ten millionth member celebrations, visit the event page at

Looks like we may tip over to 10 million registered members this weekend. As I will be at a cottage, I will raise a glass at various points over the weekend to toast whomever it is that brings us up to 10 digits. :thumbsup:

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You're welcome!

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Here's the Facebook post too! CodeProject #CP10 celebration in Brazil[^]

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Thanks! We're getting close to 10 million though... http://www.codeproject.com/Competitions/652/CodeProject-Ten-Million-Members-Celebration-Giveaw.aspx[^]

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Thanks Pete, and everyone else! In true Canadian fashion, I headed north to the cottage to celebrate my birthday, paddling a canoe and dipping my toes in the lake. I even turned off my email and didn't check CodeProject while there (gasp!). As such, I'm just getting your well wishes today. Cheers!

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Not quite a Trinket, but I thought you all might enjoy who graces the pages of my calendar. I move him every month. https://twitter.com/carrieds/status/350325810076450816[^]

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Thanks for sharing Pete! We have also shared the love on the CodeProject facebook fan page[^]. :)

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Thanks for the idea Marco. We most certainly will be providing more details! Wow - word gets out fast. :)

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Ahem. Not ALL of those who have been spared the Y-Chromosome are parallel parking-challenged. Try parallel parking a mini-van in Toronto. In winter. After the snowploughs have been by. It's been done and done well. :) ;P

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Oh yay! I knew that I was important in some small way. ;P

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Keep your eyes and ears peeled. Thanks for the idea Marco. :) Now I'm just waiting for the counter at the top of my page to read over 10,000,000. :-\

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