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iDevResource.com
Newsletter for developers and programmers
Jan 2000 Issue #2
IDude, Editor, [email protected]
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By subscription only! Welcome to the second issue of the
"iDevResource.com Newsletter".
You are receiving this newsletter because you
requested a subscription. Unsubscribe instructions are at
the end of this newsletter.
Please forward to a colleague or friend if you know they
would be interested in iDevResource.com - the developer
community site.
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IN THIS ISSUE
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=> Welcome
=> Message from our sponsor
=> About IDR
=> The Catalog(ue)
=> Webrings
=> Channelmeisters
=> No more developers want to win $100 prize??!!
=> Articles & Explanation
=> Community - Developer Desires
=> Industry News
=> Freebies -That time of the month again!
=> Competitions - More prizes!
=> Books & Sample Chapters
=> Subscribe/Unsubscribe information
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WELCOME
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Welcome to the iDevResource.com weekly newsletter for
developers and programmers. The newsletter will be going
out at the end of every week.
Congratulations to the winner of one of the $100 dollar
prizes. We are stunned that there haven't been more and are
preparing to have a big party on the money left over! If
you are one of the 50+ people to download the article
template, we are happy to extend the deadline if you mail us
at [email protected] and tell us what article you are
writing.
We look forward to your contributions both to the site and
to the newsletter, just mail them to
[email protected]. We can't guarantee to
publish everything in the newsletter but we will try!
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MESSAGE FROM OUR SPONSOR
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Please visit our sponsor this month ....
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We wish iDevResource.com the best of luck in the future!
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If you wish to sponsor the newsletter, or one of the
channels on the site please contact
[email protected].
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ABOUT IDR
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iDevResource.com is an independent developer resource and
community site, run by a group of developers who would like to
share their expertise with the developer world, and we support
an Open Publishing model. Please support our bookstore, our
advertisers and our sponsors to help this community to
continue to grow. We are committed to high quality and low
hype for all the articles and content on iDevResource.com.
This site needs your help to flourish too so please
contribute articles of interest to other developers.
The site is divided into channels:
COM (including COM+, ATL, DCOM etc)
https://www.idevresource.com/com
XML (including XML, XSL and SOAP)
https://www.idevresource.com/xml
ASP https://www.idevresource.com/asp
Java (including the most excellent series on EJB
by Gopalan Suresh Raj)
https://www.idevresource.com/java
ATR - All The Rest! (including VB, Linux, C++ and all those
languages and technologies not in the four main channels.
https://www.idevresource.com/atr
Within the channels, you will find the Zones - Library,
Discovery, Interactive, and ETC.
This Week covers all the latest additions to the site,
plus news and links to areas which are not channel
specific - advertising, contribute, special offers etc.
https://www.idevresource.com/thisweek.asp
Author Central is our way of giving back to the community.
Contribute to the site and you get your own free webspace
within IDR. New authors added this week!
https://www.idevresource.com/authorcentral.asp
International Forums for the international community of
developers need a bit of a boost so if you are feeling
patriotic this week, tell 5 people about the forums for
your country!
We hope that the international communities will also feature
great resources from each country over the coming months.
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THE CATALOG(UE)
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Ok, so we had a few arguments about whether to be European
or American in the spelling!
The catalogue features training courses, jobs and products.
Sample catalogue listings can be seen at
https://www.idevresource.com/samplecat.asp
Rates for catalog(ue) listings can be obtained by contacting
[email protected].
We would like to point out that anyone wishing to haggle
about the price for a listing is welcome to do so! No
telling whether you'll win...;o)
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WEBRINGS
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The success of the COM webring is astounding. Last week
our traffic logs show 549 user sessions for that page alone.
If you have a COM site, this is the ring to join if you want
highly targeted traffic from COM developers.
On the back of that success, we have now set up the
Developers webring, and are looking for developer sites to
join it.
This is Free, easy traffic to your site, plus you become the
member of a community which we envisage to become huge over
the next few months, with all of its members benefiting.
If you wish to join either of the rings, go to
https://www.idevresource.com/webring.asp
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CHANNELMEISTERS
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To help keep the content flowing, we are looking for
channel meisters who will assist with the tasks of running
each channel, or just getting involved with the site.
Contact [email protected]?subject=moderator
for more info.
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NO MORE DEVELOPERS WANT TO WIN $100 PRIZE??!!
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Only one week left! Win $100 or an Amazon gift voucher for
the same amount by writing for iDevresource.com
More details at
https://www.idevresource.com/articlecomp.asp..
Shivesh Viswanathan now has his $100 voucher for Amazon for
his great article entitled "Active Template Library -
Architecture & Internals" which can be found at
https://www.idevresource.com/com/library/articles/atlinternals.asp
His Author Central site will also soon be there for all to see.
To all you budding authors, start writing and see if you
can be the next one to win! We'll extend the deadline if you
just say what article you are planning to write.
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ARTICLES
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All articles on the site can be discussed in the discussion
groups at onelist.com (see COMMUNITY section below).
Top article this week without a doubt was:
An Introduction to WTL by Dr Richard Grimes
https://www.idevresource.com/com/library/bytesize/wtl.asp
Over 600 people went to read Richard's article in two weeks.
Thanks to Chris Sells for posting a link on the ATL list.
New articles on the site this week include:
COM Channel - Our most popular channel, both for visitors and
authors!!
Active X & COM by Gopalan Suresh Raj
(Reproduced with permission)
https://www.idevresource.com/com/library/bytesize/activex_com.asp
MTS by Gopalan Suresh Raj
https://www.idevresource.com/com/library/articles/mts2.asp
Developing a Simple MTS Server Component Part 1
by Gopalan Suresh Raj
https://www.idevresource.com/com/library/articles/mtsserver.asp
Developing a Simple MTS Client Application Part 2
by Gopalan Suresh Raj
https://www.idevresource.com/com/library/articles/mtsclient.asp
Developing the Bank Account IDL - Part 1
by Gopalan Suresh Raj
https://www.idevresource.com/com/library/articles/mtsaccount1.asp
MTS Server Component - Part 2 by Gopalan Suresh Raj
https://www.idevresource.com/com/library/articles/mtsaccount2.asp
MTS Client - Part 3 by Gopalan Suresh Raj
https://www.idevresource.com/com/library/articles/mtsaccount3.asp
Active Template Library - Architecture & Internals by
Shivesh Viswanathan - $100 winner
https://www.idevresource.com/com/library/articles/atlinternals.asp
XML Channel
Article suggestions can be found at
https://www.idevresource.com/xml
ASP Channel
Java Channel
The Enterprise Java Beans Series by Gopalan Suresh Raj
is up, and it is great stuff! (Reproduced with permission)
https://www.idevresource.com/java/library/articles.asp
Gopalan's site can be checked out at
https://www.execpc.com/~gopalan
ATR Channel
Articles about Visual Basic, C++, Linux etc needed.
$100 for the best articles submitted during January.
IN DEV......
We currently have three series of articles in development
The 'What is...'Series are short one page descriptions
of all the different technologies and languages eg ADSI,
MFC, MTS and all the other acronyms! Every developer
should be able to manage one of these!
The COM+ Development Series - details at
https://www.idevresource.com/com/library/articles.asp
The 'What Language/Technology ..' Series will cover real
world case studies of problems and the solution(s) chosen.
We need your help to continue filling the content of the
site whilst we ensure the functionality works OK. Please
remember this site is being developed by a group of
developers independently. We do not have a multi-million
dollar budget!! As soon as we are able we will offer
a revenue sharing scheme to the contributors, and in the
meantime we hope other developers will share their experience,
knowledge and coding techniques with others.
Anyone wishing to write an article for any of these series
or channels should contact:
mailto:[email protected]?subject=ArticleIdea
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COMMUNITY - Developer Desires
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We would like to set the community on fire a little. Have
you any desires that we could satisfy?!
The discussion groups are at onelist.com and currently we
run the following:
dev-idr (for general discussions about the site and the
world!), dev-xml, dev-xml-osp (for Open Source Projects),
dev-com, dev-java, dev-adsi, dev-asp, dev-linux, dev-mts,
dev-atl, dev-sap, dev-vb - phew! Think that's all of them.
Moderators are wanted to help out the overstretched team,
so anyone who would like to become more involved in the
community please get in touch at
[email protected]?subject=moderator.
Thanks.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
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We would like to apologise for the hiccup in getting news
to the site recently. An absolutely vital member of our
team stopped being quite so vital and went down like a ton
of bricks with the 'flu. Apparently the remedies are working
now (including the threatening phone calls to come back to
work or else!) and news should start rolling again on to
the site next week.
We appreciate the news items being sent in by IDR visitors
so don't stop! Send to
[email protected]?subject=BreakingNews
Press releases for new products, upgrades, company news
etc also welcome. Details of our newsstream option can
be found at https://www.idevresource.com/advertising.asp
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FREEBIES - THAT TIME OF THE MONTH AGAIN!
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Advertising for All. We think it levels the playing field
so we are going to keep doing it. Want a free advert on
iDevResource.com? The beginnning of February is the time
for you to get your adverts in to IDR.
Each month we will accept one advert per company or
website to be featured on the site up to a limit of
10 percent of our inventory. Ads will be accepted on a
first come, first served basis. More details are available at
https://www.idevresource.com/advertising.asp under Banner
Advertising.
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COMPETITIONS
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What? No name for the newsletter yet? Someone must have an
idea what to call this newsletter?! Otherwise, the team
have decided to share the prize between ourselves!
We had some large numbers generated by last week's Trivia quiz.
This week's competition on the site (and you hear about it
here first) is a Humour Competition. What is the worst
developer joke you have ever heard? Which is the best? Know
a pun about XML, or ASP or COM? Got any Linux jokes? Thought
of an interface or component related song title? What might
IDude have got up to this week? (Wait till you see the new
cartoons which will go up next week in the etc/humour section!)
Anything funny - we don't mind as long as it is programming
related.
The prize? Suggest one!
Entries to [email protected] by Thursday next week.
Advance warning: next week's newsletter competition will
involve Valentine's Day - get your thinking hats on. There
are females on this team who are convinced programmers are the
most unromantic bunch ever. Prove IMoniker and her girlie
friends wrong!
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BOOKS
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All the bookstores have been updated this week. If there are
titles you would like to recommend, or just published
titles, let us know at [email protected].
Written a book? Got a sample chapter that we can put up so
that others can see how great it is? Publishers: this is one
of the proven methods for selling books - putting sample
chapters online. We are happy to add them to the site.
Please support our bookstore, and the IDR team through this
development time. Buy a book in the IDR bookstore!
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