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Dr. Dobb's Journal Going Web-Only

Posted by timothy on from the times-change-and-sometimes-that's-good dept.

paleshadows writes "The first issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal (DDJ) was published in January 1976. A few days ago, Herb Sutter (the chair of the ISO C++ committee and a long-time DDJ columnist) announced through his latest blog post that, 'as of January 2009, Dr. Dobb's Journal is permanently suspending print publication and going web-only.' This follows an earlier announcement that PC Magazine is to become digital-only, too, as of February 2009. To those of us who enjoy reading such stuff away from the computer these are bad news, as there seems to be no other major technical programmers' magazines left standing."

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  1. Well then by geekoid · · Score: 5, Informative

    just print it out.

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  2. Re:The iPoo by kv9 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The thing about all the readers is that I simply would not use one in the bathroom for a lot of sound reasons I'm sure you can imagine.

    I actually can't. I have a friend that's always in the can with his laptop. a reader should be a no brainer.

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  3. Re:Journalists by vurian · · Score: 3, Informative

    Don't do it. Really -- don't do write a book. I did. I had a pretty nice sideline writing articles for DDJ, InformIT and similar, each bringing in between $400 and $1000 -- and then I got uppity and wrote a book (http://valdyas.org/python/index.html). Total income for about a year of working every evening and all weekends, ~ $400. Books don't pay, are a lot of work and you'll be badgered for years by impecunious students for free paper copies, because you're a rich author and the e-copy is so inconvenient.

  4. Re:Missing Options by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm not sure where you got the 50-year number, but there is a break-even point. Although that point is very different depending on species. Basically the tree is absorbing carbon and converting it to wood. Large trees grow slowly (produce little wood) while young trees grow quickly (produce a lot of wood). More wood production -> More carbon absorption.