The end of print computer magazines

I'm a big reader of print - I honestly think my ability to keep up with technology changes has gone downhill as books and magazines have stopped covering techology.

Unless you worked at PC World in 2004, what’s most striking about this chart is Computer Shopper’s utter collapse—from something like 350,000 issues sold at the newsstand a month to fewer than 55,000. As the most catalog-like major computer magazine, it was the most vulnerable to being rendered obsolete by the web. Once a 1,000-page (!!!) monthly behemoth, it withered in more dramatic fashion than PC World or PC Magazine. When it didn’t feel like Computer Shopper anymore, readers lost interest.

I read a lot of Computer Shopper back in the day. We should return.

CodeProject woes

While reading an article about IntelliPort, a very neat HyperTerminal replacement, I noticed a link on the top of the page. Long story short, it looks like Code Project is going offline:

Shortly the site will be switched into read-only mode. Our hope with this change is to allow another party to maintain the site as an archive of great code, articles and technical advice. We are working hard to make that happen and while in no way guaranteed, things look very promising so far. However for the foreseeable future, and possibly permanently, new postings will be disabled, for articles, for forums, for QuickAnswers and the other portions of the site.

Hopefully we can come together and save the site. It has been a part of my professional life since I started coding for cash in 2006.

gmane NNTP is back online!

I was a big gmane.org NNTP user and was distraught when it stopped working. Turns out it just got converted to gmane.io for reasons linked above. I've subscribed to my lists again, very exciting.

Microsoft's UNIX System history

I was a big user of this back in the day, sad to see it die on the vine. I suppose the Linux subsystem has picked up most of the slack but the old system was pretty slick back in the day.

Adding default safety to C++

Many interesting options for making C++ code safer without having to change the code! I'm not maintaining any at the moment but I'm interested to follow these developments nonetheless.

Tribblix - a new Solaris distribution

Nice CD download with plugins to give you the entire environment you need. Well as much as anyone needs Solaris.

CPAN Testers 400k mark

Just hit 400k submitted test results on the CPAN Testers leaderboard, exciting times.