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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.
31 Dec 2004 CodeProject MVP 2005

   
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The ASP.NET Wiki was started by Scott Hanselman in February of 2008. The idea is that folks spend a lot of time trolling the blogs, googlinglive-searching for answers to common "How To" questions. There's piles of fantastic community-created and MSFT-created content out there, but if it's not found by a search engine and the right combination of keywords, it's often lost.

The ASP.NET Wiki articles moved to CodeProject in October 2013 and will live on, loved, protected and updated by the community.
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The CodeProject focus group is an informal and changeable group of long-suffering CodeProject members willing to give their time and patience to discussing product, branding and marketing ideas with those looking to actually understand what developers think.

To apply to join this group simply hit the "Apply to join this group" button.

To seek the wisdom, guidance, and hopefully a little enlightenment, email focus@codeproject.com and we'll work out a time to discuss your thoughts.
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You may know us for our processors. But we do so much more. Intel invents at the boundaries of technology to make amazing experiences possible for business and society, and for every person on Earth.

Harnessing the capability of the cloud, the ubiquity of the Internet of Things, the latest advances in memory and programmable solutions, and the promise of always-on 5G connectivity, Intel is disrupting industries and solving global challenges. Leading on policy, diversity, inclusion, education and sustainability, we create value for our stockholders, customers and society.
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The CodeProject Authors are a group of talented technical writers who create articles and whitepapers for some of the biggest companies in the industry. Under our ContentLab.io unit we reach out to those who need content written but lack the time, expertise or resources to complete the work.

Looking to earn a little extra and get connected to, and be featured on, the websites of the companies whose technologies you know and love? If you can write well and are efficient with time then send us an email at info@contentlab.io.
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The CodeProject Advisors group is comprised of CodeProject members specifically chosen to advise the CodeProject on new products related to helping the community answer technical questions. This group participates in beta testing and feedback of products designed to help connect members with experts.
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Sign up to get the news you didn't even know you needed to know in the most valuable 5 minutes of reading of your day.

The Code Project Daily Insider keeps you up to date with what is happening around the industry. From the continue saga of the Big Boys to Scott Guthrie's blog ramblings and Steve Jobs' latest, you will find it here.
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In January 2005, David Cunningham and Chris Maunder created TheUltimateToolbox.com, a new group dedicated to the continued development, support and growth of Dundas Software’s award winning line of MFC, C++ and ActiveX control products.

Ultimate Grid for MFC, Ultimate Toolbox for MFC, and Ultimate TCP/IP have been stalwarts of C++/MFC development for a decade. Thousands of developers have used these products to speed their time to market, improve the quality of their finished products, and enhance the reliability and flexibility of their software.
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GeneralFinal week. Almost. Pin
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GeneralThe Ultimate Coder Challenge: Beetle Bots with friggin' laser beams. Pin
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GeneralThe Ultimate Coder Challenge - the struggle continues Pin
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GeneralIntel Ultimate Coder Challenge: Week 2 Pin
Chris Maunder14-Jun-16 16:49
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Over the course of eight weeks, five teams will develop, prototype and journal their progress using the Intel® commercial IoT developer Kit

Team 5[^] has given us some more info on how they are approaching their goal of remote disease identification. It's a basic, common-sense approach: Have a bunch of cameras trained on a crop to monitor and identify diseased foliage in real time. If anything is found then the farm will be sent information on how to deal with the issue. If anything new is found then the images will be catalogued, identified and added to the library.

They have my attention with their use of machine learning to classify crop states using a well defined set of signals. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are, by far, the hot topics this year and it's nice to see it be used for soemthing other than driving cars and predicting stock prices. Priorities, anyone?

Team 4[^] have up'd the hardware count for their proximity based advertising system. They did get down and dirty with a bit of code in their blog, but even talking dirty like that isn't going to sway me. An interesting point they've raised is that managing a messaging system via proximity is going to require very, very careful tuning of the signal. Once a beacon is out of range the recievers will need to know this. No point getting a message about a can of tomatoes 3 aisles over.
But what about a message from a box of cornflakes on the other side of the shelf? I'd be interested in seeing how they handle that one.

Team 3[^] is thinking about communication for their remote doctor application. They are based in India and in remote areas not everyone has a smartphone or even an internet connection. The same can be said of countries such as Australia. As such they've settled on SMS as their delivery system of choice. Tech stack will be Javascript, MongoDB, node, with IBM Bluemix as the platform. No Azure or AWS?

Given that bandwidth (and phone batteries) are a limited resource they are focussing on a light messaging protocol via MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport). This is a lightweight M2M protocol specifically for IoT.

Team 2[^] has explained how easy it is to get Clojure running then shows precisely the opposite. This is 2016. This stuff should Just Work by now.Anyway, using nrepl means they can develop on their desktop while evaluating code on the target device.In any case they got that bit working and then moved on to porting IoTivity[^] to the platforms of choice. IoTivity enables device to device communication.

Team 1[^] is coming to grips with the reality of ad-hoc networks of devices travelling at 100kmh, not all in the same direction. They are trying to put together a system whereby vehicles will coordinate among themselves in order to not crash. A MongoDB style master-slace system just isn't going to cut it. My thought: An every-man-for-himself system based on every vehicle looking to avoid every other vehicle by "watching" what every other vehicle is doing. Basically what humans do: We focus on not hitting anything else and we watch (and anticipate) what others are doing to predict speed and location and not be there at the same time.

Vehicles can transmit velocity (speed and direction), acceleration, mass, yaw, available traction, general vehicle health and intended path constantly. Communication will need to be super-fast, but if everyone is saying basically "I'm headed that way and here's how fast I'd be able to stop" then everyone can keep out of everyone else's way.
 

I'm already sensing a pattern here. There are no standards for IoT. In anything. Each team is using a different stack, different protocols, different platforms. They are all, for the most part, using the same Arduino boards and Grove Starter Kit[^], yet there's no "standard" being followed. Add to that the plethora of backend webservices at their disposal, and then open it up to even more hardware and you have a problem if you're looking for the "right" way to do things.

Maybe Javscript will turn out to be IoT's BASIC. Maybe technology will continue to progress so rapidly that new standards simply aren't necessary and current (server) based technologies will transfer wholesale to embedded devices.
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Chris Maunder

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GeneralIntel Ultimate Coder Challenge: Beginnings Pin
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GeneralLive JavaScript articles now accepted Pin
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GeneralCodeProject no longer uses CommonMark instead of Markdown (was: CodeProject uses CommonMark) Pin
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