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The CodeProject team have been writing software, building communities, and hosting CodeProject.com for over 20 years. We are passionate about helping developers share knowledge, learn new skills, and connect. We believe everyone can code, and every contribution, no matter how small, helps.

The CodeProject team is currently focussing on CodeProject.AI Server, a stand-alone, self-hosted server that provides AI inferencing services on any platform for any language. Learn AI by jumping in the deep end with us: codeproject.com/AI.

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Software Developer (Senior) CodeProject
Canada Canada
As Senior Architect, Matthew is responsible for the Architecture, Design, and Coding of the CodeProject software as well as Manager of the Infrastructure that runs the web site.

Matthew works on improving the performance and experience of the Code Project site for users, clients, and administrators.

Matthew has more years of software development, QA and architecture experience under his belt than he likes to admit. He graduated from the University of Waterloo with a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering. He started out developing micro-processor based hardware and software including compilers and operating systems.
His current focus is on .NET web development including jQuery, Webforms, MVC, AJAX, and patterns and practices for creating better websites.
He is the author of the Munq IOC, the fastest ASP.NET focused IOC Container.
His non-programming passions include golf, pool, curling, reading and building stuff for the house.
Technical Writer CodeProject
Canada Canada
Sean Ewington is the Content Manager for CodeProject.

His background in programming is primarily C++ and HTML, but has experience in other, "unsavoury" languages.

He loves movies, and likes to say inconceivable often, even if it does not mean what he thinks it means.
Founder CodeProject
Canada Canada
I started photo-etching circuit boards when I was 8, and at 11 was haunting the halls and computer science labs at the local university so much that I was invited by Professor Wayne Ayott to audit his software and hardware design courses.

Over my career I have used C# , C++, Win32, MFC, Assembler, Basic, and Clipper, on applications for the military, commercial ventures, medical research and the labour movement. Through my medical informatics work I came to know what real-time and mission-critical really mean… just try being part of the critical path when a woman goes into labor.

I have been honoured to receive many business, industry and leadership awards including being named an Exceptional Young Entrepreneur (Profit Magazine) and to the list of Who's Who in Canadian Business. The companies I started have been recognized as the Fastest Growing companies in Canada (Profit Magazine), as the Fastest Growing North American Technology Companies (Deloitte & Touché) and named as a Top 100 Innovator and Leader by SDTimes 6 years in a row. I serve on the boards of the Ontario Center for Innovation, and Umbra a leading international home goods company.

Here's my professional profile on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidcunningham

In 2007 Microsoft acquired the technology assets, IP and development team of my company Dundas Software and rolled it into SQL Server. After the Microsoft deal we recapitalized Dundas and grew it again into Dundas Data Visualization a leading Embedded BI company which was acquired by insightsoftware in 2022.

I live in Toronto and enjoy photography, scuba, food, and motorcycle riding.
Founder CodeProject
Canada Canada
Chris Maunder is the co-founder of CodeProject and ContentLab.com, and has been a prominent figure in the software development community for nearly 30 years. Hailing from Australia, Chris has a background in Mathematics, Astrophysics, Environmental Engineering and Defence Research. His programming endeavours span everything from FORTRAN on Super Computers, C++/MFC on Windows, through to to high-load .NET web applications and Python AI applications on everything from macOS to a Raspberry Pi. Chris is a full-stack developer who is as comfortable with SQL as he is with CSS.

In the late 1990s, he and his business partner David Cunningham recognized the need for a platform that would facilitate knowledge-sharing among developers, leading to the establishment of CodeProject.com in 1999. Chris's expertise in programming and his passion for fostering a collaborative environment have played a pivotal role in the success of CodeProject.com. Over the years, the website has grown into a vibrant community where programmers worldwide can connect, exchange ideas, and find solutions to coding challenges. Chris is a prolific contributor to the developer community through his articles and tutorials, and his latest passion project, CodeProject.AI.

In addition to his work with CodeProject.com, Chris co-founded ContentLab and DeveloperMedia, two projects focussed on helping companies make their Software Projects a success. Chris's roles included Product Development, Content Creation, Client Satisfaction and Systems Automation.

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GeneralWhen's a good time to release? Pin
Chris Maunder6-Jun-22 11:12
cofounderChris Maunder6-Jun-22 11:12 
We've just released senseAI v1.4.0 and we fell into the trap of "just one more thing" while working to get the release out.

Here's a timeline you've probably had yourself:
  1. We need to add feature X. Let's go!
  2. We hop on a Zoom call and start brainstorming ideas on how to do this.
  3. We settle on an idea and go for it
  4. One of us, deep in the bowels of the code, realises there's refactoring that could be done
  5. To release, then refactor, then re-release? Or refactor, since I'm here anyway, and then release?
And you know what happened. The urge to release the best code beat the urge to provide our users with new functionality.

Maybe we've been burned too many times by rushed releases. Visual Studio seems to be less and less stable and more and more bloated. Apple's iOS has an exciting history of chaos. CodeProject itself has broken things left, right, and centre more times than I care to remember.

But here's the issue with waiting till it's perfect.

It will never be perfect. We'll be lucky if it will be stable and useable. If we're really, really lucky it will be useful. That's simply the reality of software development.

So by holding off on releasing the code we ended up making the engine run smoother, a little faster, a little more efficient, but (to stretch the analogy) we're not letting anyone drive a perfectly functional car. And the purpose of writing software is to provide something your users can use. Hence the term. Users.

Having said here's a little more background to our decision.

The change we made, instead of releasing the code, was in the manner in which you add a module. One of the core pieces of senseAI is to make it easy for developers to integrate AI into their apps by taking wonderful Open Source projects and aggregating them into senseAI's environment. We make sure the runtime is sorted out, the packages are installed, the API is solid, the installer works, and developers just provide the fun stuff.

Our change was that we took a process that required maybe a little too much understanding of the mechanics of how it all works, and turned it into a process that required writing a single callback function. 240+ lines of reasonably complex code down to 65 lines of very straightforward code.

So our decision was wasn't "do we release new functionality" but rather "do we continue to encourage developers to use a painful way of adding modules when we know full well that in a week we'll have a much, much better way".

It's these sorts of decisions that have to be weighed against your users, your marketing objectives, your budget and your stakeholders. Maybe marketing needs something, anything to talk about. Maybe Marketing can't handle the complaints when poor release decisions are made. Maybe you need to demonstrate progress or maybe you need to know whether it's even worth continuing in a certain direction before even thinking about refactoring.

Development time is super, crazy expensive, so these decisions are important.
cheers
Chris Maunder

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GeneralInstallers, again, and providing your users with choice. Pin
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GeneralWhy is AI so hard? Pin
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