Hi

It's been a while since my consulting practice stole all the time I wanted to spend researching and writing, and things in the
publishing world seem to have changed considerably in that time. CUJ is gone, and other magazines seem to have lost their pizzaz
(and some, perhaps, quality along with it). Other than the ACCU, I'm not aware of anything C/C++-related maintaining any significant
momentum. Of course, I could be quite wrong, which is why I'm putting out the question.

I've a number of things that I want to publish in the remainder of the year, including intro pieces, design discussions and
tutorials on Pantheios, FastFormat and flecxx, and extracts from my next book, Breaking Up The Monolith. There're also several
things I'd like to write up that pertain to s/w engineering in general, or to other languages.

I'd really appreciate hearing from people where they go these days, so I can best target the prospective audience.

Some possibilities:
 - CVu / Overload (ACCU)
 - CodeProject
 - DDJ
 - The C++ Source
 - newsgroups
 - just not interested in C++ / C++ libraries any more

Thanks in advance

Matt


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    (www.imperfectcplusplus.com)

On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 07:10:48 +1000, Matthew Wilson wrote:

G'Day Matt, good to hear from you again.

But to the point ...

>  - just not interested in C++ / C++ libraries any more

and in fact have never been interested ;-)

Which is odd that I subscribe to a few feeds that represent C++.

Artima
Code Gear
Code Guru
Developer.com
IBM Developer Works
Experts Exchange
TechRepublic

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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
skype: derek.j.parnell

Matthew Wilson wrote:
> Hi
> 
> It's been a while since my consulting practice stole all the time I wanted to spend researching and writing, and things in the
> publishing world seem to have changed considerably in that time. CUJ is gone, and other magazines seem to have lost their pizzaz
> (and some, perhaps, quality along with it). Other than the ACCU, I'm not aware of anything C/C++-related maintaining any significant
> momentum. Of course, I could be quite wrong, which is why I'm putting out the question.
> 
> I've a number of things that I want to publish in the remainder of the year, including intro pieces, design discussions and
> tutorials on Pantheios, FastFormat and flecxx, and extracts from my next book, Breaking Up The Monolith. There're also several
> things I'd like to write up that pertain to s/w engineering in general, or to other languages.
> 
> I'd really appreciate hearing from people where they go these days, so I can best target the prospective audience.
> 
> Some possibilities:
>  - CVu / Overload (ACCU)
>  - CodeProject
>  - DDJ
>  - The C++ Source
>  - newsgroups
>  - just not interested in C++ / C++ libraries any more
> 
> Thanks in advance

Well! The second guy this week, who walks in from ages of absence. Welcome back, Matthew!

"- just not interested in C++ / C++ libraries any more" would be my choice.

Since I don't want to start earning my bread coding in C++, there's no point in keeping more than a "read-only" fluency in C++, and thus any libraries become less relevant.


When I last remember having seen you here, D was unknown to most folks. Today things are different.

Why not quickly publish what you already have, and then start writing about D? Why beat a terminally ill horse, when you should use a car. (The horse bit is actually your own first paragraph, above!)

Switch to D, and see Scott Meyers &co sink in the C of obsolesence, while your street credibility does the Red Bull.

georg

Matthew Wilson wrote:
> Hi
> 
> It's been a while since my consulting practice stole all the time I wanted to spend researching and writing, and things in the
> publishing world seem to have changed considerably in that time. CUJ is gone, and other magazines seem to have lost their pizzaz
> (and some, perhaps, quality along with it). Other than the ACCU, I'm not aware of anything C/C++-related maintaining any significant
> momentum. Of course, I could be quite wrong, which is why I'm putting out the question.
> 
> I've a number of things that I want to publish in the remainder of the year, including intro pieces, design discussions and
> tutorials on Pantheios, FastFormat and flecxx, and extracts from my next book, Breaking Up The Monolith. There're also several
> things I'd like to write up that pertain to s/w engineering in general, or to other languages.
> 
> I'd really appreciate hearing from people where they go these days, so I can best target the prospective audience.
> 
> Some possibilities:
>  - CVu / Overload (ACCU)
>  - CodeProject
>  - DDJ
>  - The C++ Source
>  - newsgroups
>  - just not interested in C++ / C++ libraries any more
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Matt
> 
> 

Welcome back, I'm looking forward to reading some more of your stuff.  I read DDJ mostly.

Please let us know when your books comes out and when publish something new.

-Joel

Artima and DDJ are the first two that spring to mind.  DDJ has a section for "guru blogs" that may be appropriate for some of these.  But as for C++ specific sites... no idea.  My first point of reference would be the newsgroups.


Sean

Reply to Sean,

> My first point of reference would
> be the newsgroups.
> 

BTW: where would I go to get access to them? I've looked a few times but haven't managed to find any NNTP servers that are both free and have stuff I'm interested in.

> Sean
> 

BCS Wrote:
but he was unable to make his post follow the normal tree . Why do you start new trees with each post?

Its pretty easy ,get the original post up and reply to that to be in the subjects tree and if you reply to a particular post which is part of that tree then get the post you are replying to up and hit the reply button there

You turn things into one helluva mess if you don't.

"Tower Ty" <towerty@msn.com.au> wrote in message news:fta5md$1i7m$1@digitalmars.com...
> BCS Wrote:
> but he was unable to make his post follow the normal tree . Why do you
> start new trees with each post?
>
> Its pretty easy ,get the original post up and reply to that to be in the subjects tree and if you reply to a particular post which is part of that tree then get the post you are replying to up and hit the reply button there
>
> You turn things into one helluva mess if you don't.

His post is threaded fine for me.  Keep in mind that the web interface is a terrible, buggy mess.  Try something like Thunderbird :)

Matthew Wilson wrote:

> I'd really appreciate hearing from people where they go these days, so I can best target the prospective audience.

Hi Matthew,

I would say that for me the order of chance to read your writings is:

- Book ;-)
- The C++ Source
- DDJ
- CodeProject
- ACCU

Cheers, Martin.

"Martin Moene" <moene@eld.physics.LeidenUniv.nl> wrote in message news:ftauj7$90g$1@digitalmars.com...
> Matthew Wilson wrote:
>
> > I'd really appreciate hearing from people where they go these days, so I can best target the prospective audience.
>
> Hi Matthew,
>
> I would say that for me the order of chance to read your writings is:
>
> - Book ;-)
> - The C++ Source
> - DDJ
> - CodeProject
> - ACCU
>
> Cheers, Martin.

Thanks.

I hope that descending, not ascending. ;-)

Matt