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I'd like to start off by saying I love Code Project, the Daily News and the Lounge. I start every morning with it.
It does seem to be primarily aimed at, and populated by, web application developers. 
While I do some of that stuff, I mostly do Desktop program development.
I would like to find a forum like Code Project aimed at Desktop programmers. If you know of one, please let me know. If we (desktop programmers) are a dying breed, let me know that too.
I am not "jumping ship". I just want to add another ship to my fleet.
Does a persistent cough come from drinking too much coffee?
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We are a dying breed!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I ATEN'T DED
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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We didn't ask you, Esmerelda!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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If you want to amount to anything as a developer, Forogar Garlick, you got to learn three things. What's real, what's not real, and what's the difference.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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My username was taken from an old D&D character I created back in 1978. The character's full name was "Forogar Longstride" (I liked "Strider" from LOTR). However, I recently decided to resurrect him for a new group I may be guest playing with (AD&D v5) and I am going to call him "Forogar Garlick" from now on! 
This also has the advantage that if he gets killed I can claim "Forogar Longstride" never died. 
None of this is real, but it might be different.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Ah, a Fortran Reference, Clearly.
LOL
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I think there are a lot of us here who are primarily desktop developers (although I occasionally stray to the dark side).
However, I am dying, as we all are. "None of us are going to get out of this alive".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease that is always 100% fatal.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Well, we old folks code instead of surfing the web, except when it is Compiling
Me doing C++ desktop development.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Slow Eddie wrote: It does seem to be primarily aimed at, and populated by, web application developers.
When a man only has a hammer, all problems start to look like nails. By now we have countless 'veterans' who think that programming must be so clumsy.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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in a way I like it, you see all of the challenges the web folk have to put up with, data security, data compliance, platform disparity...
coding nice little in-house apps or single-platform-single-user tools, none of that matters as much, just common sense, locking up the database/tools so they don't break it etc. it's good to see all the crap us deskies don't even have to think about.
OIOW, I read it because it reminds me why I DONT go down that road.
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You and me both!
All of my paying clients run desktop apps.
there's a lot to be said for age and experience...
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Slow Eddie wrote: the Daily News
I can see how that's primarily web based because that's where all the news is.
Cloud, Privacy, GDPR, data breaches, new (international) laws, new frameworks... All web.
And that's because the web is still growing and billions of people use it daily.
Slow Eddie wrote: the Lounge
Lots of web developers here, no doubt, but I still see regular posts about tools and hardware, C(++), Raspberry Pi, WPF and lately even some parser stuff from codewitch, although WinForms not so much anymore.
And of course the standard complaining about Mickeysoft 
That said, you are a dying breed
Perhaps you can check Reddit for topics on desktop development?
I don't use it myself, but I know it has pretty much everything (for example: reddit.com: search results - desktop development[^]).
Reddit has the added bonus that when you're done with desktop development you can continue checking out the x-rated content
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i like how I'm now just the codewitch to you.
hey, i write winform apps - tiny, single form demos of my libs!
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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i hex everyone. it's my way of saying hi.
i even hex my coffee to 24 bits - 0xC0FFEE to give it an extra jolt. Cursed and black as sin.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Thanks. It's close, the bitching part anyway.
OK
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I don't do that Web crap either.
And don't assume that Web and desktop are the only options; Web is just another form of desktop app.
Internal applications. Generally automated background movement of data from place to place. A lot of database work. Folding, spindling, mutilating, repeat.
An occasional WinForms UI to keep an eye on things and be alerted to issues.
And lots of lovely little command-line utilities to make things easier and piss off the new kids who think there should be a GUI.
modified 31-Jul-19 11:50am.
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Slow Eddie wrote: I would like to find a forum like Code Project aimed at Desktop programmers.
When browsing it will you be listening to music on your Walkman?
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No. I just fire up my Edison push on a new cylinder and listen to Al Jolson... 
Seriously, I started playing Rock and roll the day after the Beatles did their first TV appearance on Ed Sullivan Show in 1962. Ask your grandparents if they are still alive.
They stopped writing and playing music around 2000-2001. I quit playing in bands around 2005. (I got tired of the drama.) Watch the movie "The Commitments" to get a feel for it.
The Who and Yes are the best bands in my opinion.
Getting old is hell
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If I had to guess, I'd say the way business these days is a lot of coders are spending their days doing web development because everything, including applications more and more, are on the web.
I think a lot of coders contribute projects here that tend to reflect what they spend time thinking about, and if they work on the web during the day that might bleed over some.
I think there used to be a lot more desktop things here.
as for me I mainly code desktop or portable apps. Very codebases i contribute here these days are web based so I hear you and can relate.
just my two bits.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Slow Eddie wrote: It does seem to be primarily aimed at, and populated by, web application developers.
Not really aimed at, but the population has changed quite a bit since I joined. But I think that is just because the world has changed; so many more applications can now run on the web rather than the desktop.
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I'm a dinosaur along with you. I have done some web development, but I mainly do desktop technical software for engineering amd applied mathematics
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Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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there are lots of desktop code on CodeProject.
It's just that the desktop API discussions are a bit slow for the last few.. years?
At any rate.. behold (for example) WPF discussions here on CP!
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