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How did the term Hamsters, which seems to refer to Chris M's team, originate? Is this an Aussie term, European, perhaps Canadian?
No complaints here - just curious. From my memory of my sister's pet, it mostly ate pellets, ran on a squeaky wheel, and produced pellets.
Best wishes to all - Craig
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I always thought the "hamsters" were like Gremlins - up to no good, mischief. so when something is broken with the site the Hamsters did it.
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It's been a billion or so years* but I seem to recall Chris joking that the servers were powered by hamsters. I don't recall him referring to his staff as hamsters.
*fgs1963 is my 2nd time at CP. My original would have been ~20 years.
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It stems from the early CodeProject days when a bunch of hamsters escaped from the Maunder home and went feral.
Till this day they thrive in the wamth of the CodeProject datacenters.
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Good point ... Let's investigate as I am also quite curious about this, and I never heard this before except in the Lounge ... and, this interview A Coder Interview With Chris Maunder points to Chris
modified 6-Jan-23 15:59pm.
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Dunno, whether or not it pre-existed CP, but I think the concept is that the servers are powered by hamsters running in their wheels. Which would explain why things may appear markedly slower at times -- the hamsters need feeding.
And when the hamsters get out, things go bad.
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If memory serves, CP severs are built from used iPhones. Tens of thousands of them. You need a lot of minions to service and maintain all these devices. Only a high number of well trained and occasionally electroshocked hamsters can pull of this kind of task.
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Nope, iPAQ PDAs: The New CodeProject Web Farm[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I can't believe that no one has answered correctly yet.
It is in honor of Chris' mother, a hamster.
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Although his father was quite lucky to find Sambucus[^] in the southern hemisphere.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Because if he had called them Guinea Pigs they might have started to refuse the injections!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Damn - looks like we need to change the hamsters in the cage.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
That's the earliest reference I can find.
Followed by this[^] in March 2003.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Are we just delayed due to holiday hangovers? Am I being too impatient? It seems like it has been awhile since the last one.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Software development isn't a contest.
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Uh oh. Someone has clearly hacked my profile and put all these fake contest wins in it.
honey the codewitch - Professional Profile[^]
Who do I talk to about that?
PS: I didn't say software development was a contest. You strongly implied I said that. There's a rather large difference between those two things.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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honey the codewitch wrote: PS: I didn't say software development was a contest. You strongly implied I said that Yeah, but this is the Internet. We're not supposed to read the posts we reply to.
Jeremy Falcon
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Chris going on holiday? We can't have that!
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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If you mean the monthly competition, I didn't think it was fair to articles submitted late December for the contest to start Jan 2.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Microsoft is pushing on us this system as an alternative (instead of .net core and Blazor) of rewriting some big old order and data processing applications. Anybody with any experience on this? At first glance I'm genuinely scared.
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Yet another no code attempt. Of course Microsoft has to jump on the bandwagon. Nothing to get scared about.
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And I doubt they'll eat this dog food.
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Thanks. What I'm scared of is that we will put a lot of effort in this conversion and at the end it will become clear that there are "too many exceptions" and the project will be scraped. Or the end result will be unusable mess.
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I would never look at a no/low code solution for a project - you will inevitably encounter something that the no/low code can't do.
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