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Have been a Code Project MVP 5 years running and was Microsoft C# MVP 4 years running, MBCS, MIAP and a whole bunch of other stuff. Now I just help run Scottish Developers which is a user group with software development events in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee and I have also started an open source project to help with Password Validation

Main topics I blog about:
* Parallelization in .NET
* Code Quality
* Data Security

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This _private_ forum is set up to be a place where political and social issues, including American politics and global warming, can be discussed in a reasonably civil manner. Anyone who has been an active member* of Code Project for six months is welcome to apply for membership but this forum does not tolerate trolling posts, or posters who wish to be disagreeable. Those who choose to become uncivil, insulting, or childish will be warned and, for repeated violations, removed from membership.

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The user group is a not-for-profit organisation, with a mission to improve the developer community in Scotland. The strategy is to utilise the Web Site, day conferences, evening seminars and other developer events to continuously improve and develop the skillset of members and the general IT community.

Most events are free or low costs, are open for everyone to attend, with no limitations on qualifications, skill levels or experience. If you have a genuine interest in I.T. and development then membership of Scottish Developers may be just for you.

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Two blog entries in one day! Big Grin | :-D

The survey[^] this past week was on optimism/pessimism. One comment that was brought up was the glass half full/empty (and even the engineers' version that it was twice as big as it needs to be) got me thinking about something Jim Rohn wrote/spoke about.

He was commenting on learning, improving, sharing, and generally becoming a better person. One of the ideas he put forward was what if you had a glass that was full of water... Can it hold any more water?

The glass is full, to the brim, with water. Can it hold more?

What do you think?

The answer is "Of course!" Absolutely it can hold more water. But for it to hold more water you've got to pour out what is already there.

If you've never read/listned to Jim Rohn then you are probably wondering what this all means.

What he was talking about was that in order for you to grow as a person you've got to pour out what you've already got. You've got to share. And the big advantage of sharing what you've learned is that repitition is the key to success. So each time you share you are repeating what you've learned. So, while the other person benefits by learning something new, you benefit also by reinforcing what you've already learned so it locks in, it is more easily accessible, you can get at it more quickly... And because you've poured out, you can now add more water to your glass from the vast ocean of knowledge that exists out there.

This is in essence one of the best things about The Code Project: everybody wins. Not that people are in competition with each other, but because they are in competition with themselves. Always improving, always getting better.


"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar

The Second EuroCPian Event will be in Brussels on the 4th of September

Can't manage to P/Invoke that Win32 API in .NET? Why not do interop the wiki way!


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