Who's Who at CodeProject

Michael lives in sunny Mountain View, California. He started programming with an Apple //e in 4th grade, graduated from UCLA with a math degree in 1994, and immediately landed a job as a QA engineer at Symantec, working on the Norton AntiVirus team. He pretty much taught himself Windows and MFC programming, and in 1999 he designed and coded a new interface for Norton AntiVirus 2000.
Mike has been a a developer at Napster and at his own lil' startup, Zabersoft, a development company he co-founded with offices in Los Angeles and Odense, Denmark. Mike is now a senior engineer at VMware.

He also enjoys his hobbies of playing pinball, bike riding, photography, and Domion on Friday nights (current favorite combo: Village + double Pirate Ship). He would get his own snooker table too if they weren't so darn big! He is also sad that he's forgotten the languages he's studied: French, Mandarin Chinese, and Japanese.

Mike was a VC MVP from 2005 to 2009.

	25 Mar 2011	Best C++/MFC article of February 2011 with Windows 7 Goodies in C++: Introduction to the Ribbon
	31 Dec 2009	CodeProject MVP 2010
	31 Dec 2007	CodeProject MVP 2008
	19 Mar 2007	Best C++/MFC article of Feb 2007 with TDXML: XML-Based Task Dialogs with a Visual Task Dialog Editor
	25 Feb 2007	All Topics Jan 2007 with A Gadget for Browsing the Astronomy Picture of the Day
	31 Dec 2006	CodeProject MVP 2007
	31 Jan 2006	MFC/C++ Jan 2006 with WTL for MFC Programmers, Part IX - GDI Classes, Common Dialogs, and Utility Classes
	31 Dec 2004	CodeProject MVP 2005
	29 Sep 2003	MFC/C++ Aug 2003 with WTL for MFC Programmers, Part VIII - Property Sheets and Wizards
	29 Mar 2003	MFC/C++ Feb 2003 with WTL for MFC Programmers, Part I - ATL GUI Classes
	30 Oct 2002	MFC/C++ Sep 2002 with The Complete Guide to C++ Strings, Part II - String Wrapper Classes

 

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

In real life, a research chemist. Bitten by the bug for instrument automation, and then numeric and kinetic modeling, I turned to the dark side (or to the light), programming all sorts of lovely things. Alas, one needs to make a living, so off I went to POS, and now, the insurance industry.

Useful stuff: reducing concepts to bare abstractions and then coding as generic a solution as possible (implicitly extensible). In a sense, applications that "don't care" about much to do their job.

Doing now for money what I used to do simply for pleasure - not much different than a cheap hooker.

At best? An Optimistic Cynic. - No better; No worse - as though you cared, and as though your caring really mattered.


Pathological Genius

I have done things . . .

"Dispensing wisdom and chaos with uncanny poise and unflinching bravado."

	31 Dec 2021	CodeProject MVP 2022
	31 Dec 2020	CodeProject MVP 2021
	31 Dec 2019	CodeProject MVP 2020
	31 Dec 2018	CodeProject MVP 2019

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

24 Apr 2015

First Prize: Best Database Article of March 2015 with A generic Collection to DataTable Mapper

  

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

	31 Dec 2021	CodeProject MVP 2022
	31 Dec 2014	MVP: CodeProject MVP 2015
	31 Dec 2013	MVP: CodeProject MVP 2014
	31 Dec 2012	MVP: CodeProject MVP 2013
	31 Dec 2011	MVP: CodeProject MVP 2012
	31 Dec 2010	MVP: CodeProject MVP 2011

   

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Currently working on the Visual Component Framework, a really cool C++ framework. Currently the VCF has millions upon millions upon billions of Users. If I make anymore money from it I'll have to buy my own country.

Vikram is a 20-something bloke working in Madras (aka Chennai), India. Vikram was born in Madras, brought up in Coimbatore, and is now back in Madras. He loves listening to music, reading and watching cricket. He hates cats.

Vikram joined CP way back in 2002 when he was in college and had papers on Windows programming. In his past lives, he languished around, roaming the wilderness of Solaris, eventually moving on to writing software for managing ATMs in .NET. He now works as a Business Analyst who dabbles in SQL for an investment bank, working with applications for structured products.

He "loves everyone" for whatever that is worth. And he rather makes a big deal out of the fact that he's ambidextrous....

Human being, mortal, flawed.

	31 Dec 2021	CodeProject MVP 2022
	31 Dec 2020	CodeProject MVP 2021
	31 Dec 2019	CodeProject MVP 2020
	31 Dec 2018	CodeProject MVP 2019
	31 Dec 2016	MVP: CodeProject MVP 2017
	31 Dec 2014	MVP: CodeProject MVP 2015

  

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Just a shiny lil monster. Casts spells in C++. Mostly harmless.

	31 Dec 2023	CodeProject MVP 2024
	13 Nov 2023	First Prize: Best Article of October 2023 with 2ascii: Render JPGs PNGs, SVGs and text to ASCII
	21 Oct 2023	First Prize: Best Article of September 2023 with Winduino: A Tool to Prototype Arduino Projects on the PC
	8 Jul 2023	Second Prize: Best Article of June 2023 with EspMon Reboot
	8 Apr 2023	Second Prize: Best Article of March 2023 with Using the New ESP32 LCD Panel API With htcw_gfx and htcw_uix
	12 Feb 2023	First Prize: Best Article of January 2023 with A PWM Based Fan Controller for Arduino
	15 Jan 2023	First Prize: Best Article of December 2022 with A Sonos Speaker System Remote for the TTGO T-Display v1
	31 Dec 2022	CodeProject MVP 2023
	12 Nov 2022	Second Prize: Best Article of October 2022 with EspMon: A Simple PC Hardware Monitor using a T-Display S3
	15 Oct 2022	First Prize: Best Article of September 2022 with C/C++ Headers and Source Files: How Do They Work?
	17 Sep 2022	Second Prize: Best Article of August 2022 with Prang Once Again
	9 Jul 2022	Second Prize: Best Article of June 2022 with Who's Afraid of Pointers, Virginia Woolf?
	11 Feb 2022	First Prize: Best Article of January 2022 with An Improved Algorithm for Converting State Machines to Regular Expressions
	31 Dec 2021	CodeProject MVP 2022
	10 Dec 2021	First Prize: Best Article of November 2021 with Render Professional Screens on IoT
	12 Nov 2021	Second Prize: Best Article of October 2021 with Reggie: A Non-Backtracking Streaming Regular Expression Code Generator
	19 Aug 2021	Second Prize: Best Article of July 2021 with zip.hpp: Zip Viewer and Extractor Library for IoT
	11 Jul 2021	First Prize: Best Article of June 2021 with GFX In Depth: Part 1 - Drawing Fundamentals
	18 Jun 2021	First Prize: Best Article of May 2021 with GFX Forever: The Complete Guide to GFX for IoT
	31 Dec 2020	CodeProject MVP 2021
	11 Dec 2020	First Prize: Best Article of November 2020 with A $5 Programmable Tiny Webserver The Size of a Jump Drive
	14 Aug 2020	First Prize: Best Article of July 2020 with How to Use the C# Await Keyword on Anything
	17 Jul 2020	First Prize: Best Article of June 2020 with Midi: A Windows MIDI Library in C#
	10 Apr 2020	Second Prize: Best Article of March 2020 with A MIDI File Slicer and MIDI Library in C#
	14 Jan 2020	First Prize: Best Article of December 2019 with Parsley: A Recursive Descent Parser Generator in C#
	31 Dec 2019	CodeProject MVP 2020
	13 Dec 2019	Second Prize: Best Article of November 2019 with Proper List Support in C#

 

Born in Hungary, got my first computer at age 12 (C64 with tape and joystick). Also got a book with it about 6502 assembly, that on its back has a motto, said 'Try yourself!'. I believe this is my beginning...

Started to learn - formally - in connection to mathematics an physics, by writing basic and assembly programs demoing theorems and experiments.

After moving to Israel learned two years in college and got a software engineering degree, I still have somewhere...

Since 1997 I do development for living. I used 286 assembly, COBOL, C/C++, Magic, Pascal, Visual Basic, C#, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, C# and some more buzzes.

Since 2005 I have to find spare time after kids go bed, which means can't sleep to much, but much happier this way...

Free tools I've created for you...

• VSMinifier 2013 Plus[^]
• Color Scheme Selector[^]

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	31 Dec 2018	CodeProject MVP 2019
	29 Jun 2018	Spot Prize: Summer Fun with Arduino Challenge
	31 Dec 2017	MVP: CodeProject MVP 2018
	17 Feb 2017	Second Prize: Best "Everything Else" Article of January 2017 with Coding Challenge: Smallest Circle Problem
	31 Dec 2016	MVP: CodeProject MVP 2017
	31 Dec 2015	MVP: CodeProject MVP 2016
	31 Dec 2014	MVP: CodeProject MVP 2015

 

I haven't always written software for a living. When I graduated from Surrey University in 1989, it was with an Electronic Engineering degree, but unfortunately that never really gave me the opportunity to do anything particularly interesting (with the possible exception of designing Darth Vader's Codpiece * for the UK Army in 1990).

* Also known as the Standard Army Bootswitch. But that's another story...

Since the opportunity arose to lead a software team developing C++ software for Avionic Test Systems in 1996, I've not looked back. More recently I've been involved in the development of subsea acoustic navigation systems, digital TV broadcast systems, port security/tracking systems, and most recently software development tools with my own company, Riverblade Ltd.

One of my personal specialities is IDE plug-in development. ResOrg was my first attempt at a plug-in, but my day to day work is with Visual Lint, an interactive code analysis tool environment with works within the Visual Studio and Eclipse IDEs or on build servers.

I love lots of things, but particularly music, photography and anything connected with history or engineering. I despise ignorant, intolerant and obstructive people - and it shows...I can be a bolshy cow if you wind me up the wrong way...

I'm currently based 15 minutes walk from the beach in Bournemouth on the south coast of England. Since I moved here I've grown to love the place - even if it is full of grockles in Summer!

Over 20 years experience specializing in medical imaging application development using C++, C#, HTML5, and javascript. Currently involved in freelance custom web imaging development, particularly single-page applications in HTML5 and javascript, including imaging, database, and collaboration.

	31 Dec 2008	CodeProject MVP 2009
	31 Dec 2007	CodeProject MVP 2008

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

	31 Dec 2006	CodeProject MVP 2007
	2 Aug 2006	ASP.NET Jul 2006 with An Introduction to AJAX Techniques and Frameworks for ASP.NET
	4 Jul 2006	ASP.NET Jun 2006 with Cloud Control for ASP.NET
	31 Dec 2005	ASP.NET Dec 2005 with Atlas Tutorial: Creating an AJAX Scribble Application
	29 Nov 2002	.NET Oct 2002 with NScript - A script host for C#/VB.NET/JScript.NET

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Joe is one of those software engineers with a film degree. His first paid programming job (you think film is a good way to make a living?) was writing games for Apple II's using 6502 assembly. He soon moved to 80x86 assembly, C, C++ (for a long time), C# and then back to C++ with occasional dabbling in C#, Python and other vile languages.

He first wrote software for Windows 3.0 in 1990. Save for some work in Linux, DOS and a mercifully brief foray into OS/2, he has concentrated on designing and writing software for all versions and types of Windows except RT.

 

I'm a C#/WPF developer, but I'm still maintaining a mountain of C++/MFC code. In my day job, I'm a mild-mannered engineer (unless I haven't had my coffee), helping make control software for large, high speed ink jet printing systems. After hours, I'm a bloodthirsty mercenary, selling my skills to the highest bidder. Yes, that sentence pretty much defines the extent of my marketing ability.

In my spare time (whazzat?) I run (slowly), bike (the kind you pedal), lift weights (not very big ones), and try to remember where I left my reading glasses.