Time flies when you're having fun.
That's what they say.
And over the years, I've had a lot of fun.
I've also had a brain tumour, but most of the time I've just had a lot of fun.
I've coded.
You've coded.
We've all coded.
Since SoCoder was officially started, there's been a lot of crazy topics, ranging from games, tastes in music, TV and movies, development woes, books and of course, Spinal's foot.
It's been a lot of fun.
It's been a blast.
It's been...
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ten Years Later!
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With ten years of content, there are some really old things in the archives!!
Steve proclaims he's old... But he was only 32, when he posted it! socoder.net/?topic=121
HoboBen got his content stolen.. But the joke's on them.
Ten years later, their site's long gone...
HA!! socoder.net/?blogs=2667
Mike_G has to use maths to rotate a square!
Nowadays we just SetRotation!
We've all gotten lazy. socoder.net/?topic=295
Oh, and I should say happy birthday to Shroom_Monk, too!!
It's Shroomy's birthday on the same day as Socoder.
September 5th
And he's 10 years older than when he signed up!!
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Do You Remember
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Some curious finds from our decade's worth of rambling.
I added "SoCoder's 10th Birthday" to my calendar about mid June.
Since then, off and on, I've been working on various things throughout the site. Fixing old bugs, speeding things up, and generally trying to not make the site feel as though it's now a decade old.
You'll have probably noticed my various threads on the subject, and wondered why on earth I've been tweaking so damned much.
Well, this is the reason!
SoCoder's getting old!!
As part of the fixups, I recently took to making a variety of new themes.
If you click the all-new, completely redesigned (but nobody noticed it yet!) Quick Theme menu option, you can nosey through the new 2016 themes.
Since SoCoder is 10 years old, I felt it only proper to make 10 new themes.
There's a fair bit of repetition in there, and things could definitely be better, but..
Hey... 10 new themes isn't bad, right??!
This site's sole purpose, at one point.
It's hard to imagine, but if I'd never started Wednesday Workshop, then I never would've become a Moderator at CodersWorkshop, and if that hadn't have happened, I wouldn't have felt obligated to help out when CW got demolished by the rampaging Idigidragon.
.. SoCoder might never have existed in the first place!!! Then where would we be?
DevCrunch?
..?
; Longest Name Award
If I were handing out awards, this would certainly win a prize for the longest title imaginable! socoder.net/?a=15&e=104
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This Week
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As part of my behind-the-scenes celebrations, I decided to bring back Wednesday Workshop.
What would be the point of a "10 year anniversary" newsletter if it didn't include a "this week" workshop?!
So, last week I unceremoniously resurrected the thing.
The news went pretty much uncommented on, and only one other person bothered to enter.
A shame.
But, hey, new Workshop o/yeayo/
Last week's workshop asked for a game using only 10 objects onscreen at a time.
This was meant as a callback to the very first Workshop which asked for only 5 objects at a time.
I don't think anyone got the reference, though.. socoder.net/?topic=5704
AndyH's first ever Workshop entry is a surprisingly difficult pong'ish game, where all you need to do is bat the ball to yourself.
But DAMN is it hard! socoder.net/?gotoentry=380
So liberating not having to find a numerically titled song, this week.
... I wonder if anyone even noticed that, for the past ten weeks, the newsletter's title has been counting down..?
I bet they didn't!!!
