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I'm thinking of giving this a try but would welcome some recommendations if anyone else has used it. It has a nice clean UI and was developed by one of the Twitter founders, so has excellent integration with it. I'm thinking of using it instead of my CP blog (the one on your profile page). I've never really been satisfied with this, but on the other hand I don't want the overhead of a full blown blog either. Just somewhere I can post my short technical brain farts without incurring too much of my already precious spare time 
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Dominic Burford wrote: Just somewhere I can post my short technical brain farts without incurring too much of my already precious spare time
Some of these could potentially be tips/tricks here at CP, but I suppose that would depend on how farty (or not) your brain farts are.
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Dominic Burford wrote: so has excellent integration with it
Twitter is currently loosing so much money that I don't give them another 5 years as a company. Maybe place your bet on something else.
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Do you have any recommendations? I used to use Blogger, and whilst it's a great platform, I'm looking for something with less overhead. I don't want a full blown blog, just somewhere I can scribble my thoughts. Like Twitter but without the 140 character limit.
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You could use the CP blog platform.
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As I mentioned in my initial post, I already use the CP blog but don't find it a particularly good platform for blogging. The Medium.com platform looked a good fit as it has good Twitter integration and doesn't look overly complicated or incur too much overhead to get going with it.
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thatraja wrote: Tumblr?
That's for triggered safe space kids and SJW's et al.
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...or another option is we work towards making the CodeProject blogs something you would find useful.
Do you have a wishlist?
(Matthew and I were talking about this exact topic over the weekend)
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Chris Maunder
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- Ability to integrate / share content on social platforms such as Twitter
- Good SEO / analytics to allow content to be discovered
- Ability to create an audience / followers
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- In what form? Quick links? Embedding content?
- We're constantly working on that. Another update due this week
- We have something up our sleeves.
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Chris Maunder
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Links under your blog to share it across different social platforms would be useful. Maybe we should hold a straw poll and get a list of requirements from our readership 
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Dominic Burford wrote: e should hold a straw poll and get a list of requirements from our readership
Yes - I can just imagine it... 
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Just saw some parts form the Band of Brothers TV series... One thing got me is a drinking party organized on a base...
Is is still allowed to US solders to drink while on base?
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Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Have you seen Stripes? Better to keep them on base.
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Alcoholic beverages are considered contraband, and always have been. In war time, though, officers tend to look the other way unless things get out of hand. It is also (and always has been) a court martial offense to be drunk on duty. In extreme circumstances, it can be considered treason.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Alcoholic beverages are considered contraband, and always have been. In war time, though, officers tend to look the other way unless things get out of hand. It is also (and always has been) a court martial offense to be drunk on duty. In extreme circumstances, it can be considered treason.
Huh. 
I was in the Infantry for 4.5 years and we were allowed to have alcohol in the barracks, if over 21 - never contraband. The onpost PX sells Everclear for phucks sake. We were not allowed to be drunk on duty, but it was never, ever enforced with court martial. I used to get drunk with our LT all the time.
Treason??? WTF, are you smoking? 
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Possibly a difference between being stationed at home or on the front lines.
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I do know that US Navy ships are dry (no booze!) while Her Majesty are wet (well we did own most of the World once), which is why US Marines prefer UK Navy ships...
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It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of the country as a consequence. Everybody is using coffee; this must be prevented. His Majesty was brought up on beer, and so were both his ancestors and officers. Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.
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He may very well have meant malt beer which has only very little acohol.
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This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
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CDP1802 wrote: malt beer
That may very well be, but the "standard" interpretation is funnier.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
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Ok, when you are going to be the king, there are not many people around who can forbid anything.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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>> "nourished on beer" lol. Great line. 
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