Dr. Dobb's 38-Year Run Comes To an End

An anonymous reader writes: Dr. Dobb's — long time icon of programming magazines — "sunsets" at the end of the year. Editor Andrew Binstock says despite growing traffic numbers, the decline in revenue from ads means there will be no new content posted after 2014 ends. (The site will stay up for at least a year, hopefully longer.) Younger people may not care, but for the hard core old guys, it marks the end of a world where broad knowledge of computers and being willing to create solutions instead of reuse them was valuable. Binstock might disagree; he said, "As our page views show, the need for an independent site with in-depth articles, code, algorithms, and reliable product reviews is still very much present. And I will dearly miss that content. I wish I could point you to another site that does similar work, but alas, I know of none."

Comments

I guess we're just left with stack overflow

[Anonymous Coward]

Back in my day, we had to read books and articles to understand some of the current trends. You had to get some serious depth.

These days, a lot of it is google leading to stack overflow for a quick pattern match of a fix.

But at least it means the good (those with real understanding and real depth) will look different than those that build a career out of quick-n-dirty stack overflow searches.

Note that I find stack overflow an amazing resource, however, when I ask current gen "unix-heads" how to do something and they google for a stack-overflow page vs doing "man bash" means the associated concepts were completely missed.

Re:Why do people kill instead of scale back?

[iggymanz]

those don't pay steady salaries

When nearly all of your readers block ads...

[swillden]

When nearly all of your readers block ads, it's tough to make it as an ad-supported site.

(Yes, I have AdBlockPlus installed, too.)