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About Us
LAMP.CodeProject.com was formed to provide developers with a place to meet and exchange
ideas. We hope to provide developers with all the resources they need to help them in their day
to day programming, as well as helping them keep up to date with the latest technologies.
 We at LAMP.CodeProject.com would like to
thank all those who have contributed their time, energy, and articles to make the site what
it is.
Contacting Us
LAMP.CodeProject.com is:
Chris Maunder
Sitebuilder, Editor, Staff, Admin
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Chris is the Co-founder, Administrator, Architect, Chief Editor and Shameless Hack who wrote and runs The Code Project. He's been programming since 1988 while pretending to be, in various guises, an astrophysicist, mathematician, physicist, hydrologist, geomorphologist, defence intelligence researcher and then, when all that got a bit rough on the nerves, a web developer. He is a Microsoft Visual C++ MVP both globally and for Canada locally.
His programming experience includes C/C++, C#, SQL, MFC, ASP, ASP.NET, and far, far too much FORTRAN. He has worked on PocketPCs, AIX mainframes, Sun workstations, and a CRAY YMP C90 behemoth but finds notebooks take up less desk space.
He dodges, he weaves, and he never gets enough sleep. He is kind to small animals.
Chris was born and bred in Australia but splits his time between Toronto and Melbourne, depending on the weather. For relaxation he is into road cycling, snowboarding, rock climbing, and storm chasing.
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Founder |
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The Code Project |
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 Canada |
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David Cunningham
Sitebuilder, Editor, Staff, Admin
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When Chris and I started The Code Project we tossed a coin to see who would bring sage advice, wisdom and guidance to the software development community and who would be the business guy. As you can clearly see I got to wear the tie.
and so...
I direct The Code Project's business activities, such as strategic direction, partnerships, vendor relations, and advertising sales... no wait! someone much smarter than I am is doing that now 
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 & Touche) and named as a Top 100 Innovator and Leader by SDTimes in every year from 2003 to 2008.
I live in Toronto with my three children, and enjoy photography, scuba, riding my Honda Nighthawk motorcycle, and am trying to learn enough about wine to not be completely lost with a wine list in my hands.
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Founder |
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The Code Project |
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Canada |
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Jeff Hadfield
Editor, Staff, Admin
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Jeff has worked with personal computers since the late seventies, when he learned to program BASIC on an Apple II (not an Apple II Plus, mind you). Since then, he’s learned Pascal, Fortran and VB/VB.NET – all of which have been enough to show him that he’s not a born developer, but he can play one on TV, so to speak. He's working to make The Code Project even more valuable to community members and help bring new services online to make The Code Project even better.
Jeff has worked with developers and developer communities for over a decade.
All things considered, he'd rather be cycling.
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President |
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The Code Project |
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 United States |
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Elina Blank
Sitebuilder, Staff, Admin
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Elina joined the Code Project team as a software developer in order to make the site run even smoother than it is now. She will also take care of making wishes and promises on the site improvements come to the light sooner than later.
When not at work, she enjoys beeing with her family and wishes there will be at least 30 hours in a day
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Software Developer |
| Company: |
The Code Project |
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Canada |
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Dmitry Otblesk
Staff, Admin
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Dmitry looks after the back-end SQL infrastructure of the CodeProject.com site.
He received his Masters degree in System Engineering in 1986 and his PhD in Computer Science in 1990.
1986 through 2000 was engaged in number of scientific research projects run under Ukrainian National Science Academy. The main scientific areas were:
- Digital Theory of Automatic Control
- Parallel Computing
- Medical images (X-Ray and others) processing
- Medical diagnostics algorithms
Since 2001 he has been working for USA and UK High Tech companies providing architectural design and developing software for medicine, finance, telecommunication. He joined The Code Project in 2006.
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Web Developer |
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United States |
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Thiru Thirunavukarasu
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After graduating from Ryerson University with a B.Sc. in Computer Science it quickly hit me that it had not prepared me for the 'real world'! Two years later I was finally taken aboard a small company called Northcloud. This was where I did most of my real learning.
Fast forward to April 2008 and I joined The Code Project! It's been great working here. Everyone's really nice, the environment is very casual and people truly care about making quality tools.
When I'm not developing for The Code Project I like to develop at home, play lots of sports, read computer or philosophy books and stare at walls.
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Software Developer |
| Company: |
The Code Project |
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Canada |
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Kent Sharkey
Staff
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Kent Sharkey does not really exist. He is a figment of Chris' imagination.
Kent Sharkey -- the official mythical beast of CodeProject.com.
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Web Developer |
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ACMEbinary |
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Canada |
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Marcela Moran
Staff
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Marcela works in the AdOps division.
When there is a moment to breathe, she enjoys watching movies and making playlists on her favourite mp3 player.
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Canada |
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Lisa Sidlow
Staff
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I am an eccentric genius, at least I tell everyone I am a genius to justify my eccentricity. I have been working with the developer community since 1997, when I started at FTP selling advertising space in Visual Basic Programmer’s Journal (I know, I know…but somebody has to do the dirty work so we can deliver all this great content to you).
After nine years of service at my former company I took a year off and started my own business (a Pilates studio) and realized that I absolutely never want to run my own business again….ever. Happily, I landed at The Code Project™ and hope to continue selling enough ads so that we can buy shiny new toys for the site (see server farm below).
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Team Leader |
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The Code Project |
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United States |
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Mark Romasco
Staff
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I have worked in advertising in the Software Development Market since 1999 in both print and Online. Prior to that I worked for a Friends & Family Website in the Consumer Market.
I am based in the Boston, Massachusetts area.
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Marketing |
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The Code Project |
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United States |
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Deeksha Shenoy
Editor, Staff
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Deeksha got her Master's degree in Information Systems and learnt how to program in HTML, C++, SQL, Java and JavaScript. She has worked in the capacity of Systems Operator, Systems Administrator, and Project Manager during which she interacted a lot with professional programmers.
Editing articles written by smart and experienced programmers on The Code Project is a job she loves and it keeps her updated on the latest technologies.
She has lived in four countries in the last 10 years and has a flair for learning new languages (not the programming ones).
She enjoys playing with her 3-year old son, travelling and listening to music.
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The Code Project |
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Canada |
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Sean Ewington
Editor, Staff
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Sean Ewington is the Lead Technical Editor at CodeProject, but if you watch closely, you'll find him dabbling in other areas of the site.
His background in programming is primarily C++ and HTML, but has experience in other, "unsavoury" languages.
He loves movies, and is currently working on a theory that Gladiator is the best movie of his time (it is a work in progress).
When he's not queuing articles for Code Project, he divides his time between editing articles, and watching out for his replacement.
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Canada |
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Genevieve Sovereign
Editor, Staff
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Doing her BASc in chemical engineering at the University of Toronto has made Gen want her money back. She’s found a slightly truer calling in dissecting The Code Project’s site content: delving into the grammatical deeps, searching for truth amongst the format injustices and generally making pretty that which is not-so-much teh prettyz.
She is the little cantilever that dreams of being a construction crane, and hopes that her humble efforts help make The Code Project an even better place for the citizens of the world. Now let’s all hold hands and sing.
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The Code Project |
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Canada |
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Michael Wilk
Staff
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After completing a BA Honours in Philosophy at the University of Ottawa, he decided to forego his initial goal of working his way up the lucrative metaphysical corporate ladder. He got his face out of the books and plunked firmly in front of a monitor.
His interest and experience in researching the web lured him into online marketing, where he started “thrashing about” with HTML. Mike acts as a fulcrum between the exploits of the marketing and technical sides respectively, to make sure that everyone is on the same site.
So how does a philosophy degree benefit what he does here at the Code Project? His answer would likely be “Let me ponder that indefinitely and get back to you with a logically sound, and completely non-committal answer,” which in reality is his answer to everything, although not in so many words.
When his body starts to go numb from sitting in front of a computer too long, he likes to play hockey.
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Canada |
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Jackie Davis
Staff
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I joined The Code Project because I'm in total awe of The Code Project site, community, staff and exec team. They are some of the smartest people the industry has to offer (IMHO).
I come to The Code Project with 15 years of software and advertising sales experience. My passions are my family, my mini-dachshund Rocco, promoting water-wise programs at local schools, and volunteering in my community.
I’m dedicated to serving The Code Project developer community for a very long time.
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Other |
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The Code Project |
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United States |
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Sarah Powell
Financialadmin
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I joined The Code Project team as the Finance Manager in July 2007 and absolutely love working here. Prior to coming to The Code Project I spent 4 years in the mutual fund industry and 2 years in the golf industry.
In my free time I play softball, golf and ski/snowboard. I live with my husband in East Gwillibury and on most summer weekends can be found at our cottage in Parry Sound either fishing, 4-wheeling or just lounging.
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Other |
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The Code Project |
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Canada |
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Aimee Douglas
Financialadmin, Staff
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Aimee joined the Code Project team in 2007 months ago after leaving a similar position up North. Aimee is the accountant at the Code Project, working under Sarah, and has recently taken on the role of Office Administrator. Her shoe collection at Code Project is legendary. Her prize piece is a set of slippers from La Senza that can be seen worn daily.
When not crunching numbers and raving about what a great boss she has, Aimee enjoys running, shopping and pretending to understand the confusing world of programming
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Canada |
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Robyn Johnson
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I have worked for other developer Web site companies within the past nine years of my career in advertising sales, but Code Project is by far the best company I have come across. The community involvement with the product is absolutely fantastic. The staff is full of the most brilliant minds in the industry. I’m so happy to be part of the CodeProject! I’m based in NYC, so when I’m not working I can be spotted in central park with my adorable pug or shopping at the fabulous stores nearby.
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United States |
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JamesKupka
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Described by his wife as a "charming mix of attention-deficit and obsessive-compulsive disorders", the world is china shop to James' raging bull. Meet him on http://www.kupka.ca
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Canada |
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The Servers
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LAMP.CodeProject.com is hosted on 15 web servers
running Windows 2003 R2. Each box has between 1 and 2 Gb RAM and runs standard hyperthreaded P4s. The web
servers connect to 2 dual-proc, dual-core SQL servers running SQL 2005 and Win 2003.
Networking is via dual gigabit NICs. We have 3 email servers, a couple of Active
Directory servers, a big backup monstrosity, a handful of switches and about 10km
of cabling. The server rack is warm to the touch.
Hosting is with:
Managed Service Operations
155 Commerce Valley Drive, E.
Thornhill, Ontario L3T 7T2
Tel (905) 881-4414
LAMP.CodeProject.com is located at:
503-250 Ferrand Drive
Toronto Ontario, M3C 3G8 Canada
Tel +1 416-849-8900 x 100
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