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The Developer's Resource & Community Site
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iDevResource.com
Newsletter for developers and programmers
Feb 2000 Issue #4
IDude, Editor, [email protected]
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By subscription only! Welcome to the fourth issue of the
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IN THIS ISSUE
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=> Welcome
=> Sponsorship Notice
=> Special Offer!
=> New this Week -IDR forums
=> Want to write for IDR?
=> International communities
=> COM+
=> Ask the Gurus
=> Bookshop
=> Subscribe/Unsubscribe information
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WELCOME
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We hope everyone had a good weekend! We did - jazzing up the
site and doing some final tests on the new forums. We hope
you like the changes and will continue to chivvy us on to
greater things. Your feedback about the site is
appreciated, including criticism, but please be gentle with
us! We are only human after all! Please send all
suggestions, ideas, broken links etc to
[email protected]
The iDevResource.com weekly newsletter will now be going
out at the beginning rather than the end of each week to
try and report on upcoming events rather than past ones!
Please help to support this site through the bookstore,
catalogue and advertising. We are a group of developers
trying to create a high-quality, independent resource,
and look to the revenue from the site to continue the
development of our ideas.
We are also looking for a company to sponsor one of the
competitions, so if you would like to get your company name
and product in front of international developers, as well as
providing a great prize for the iDevResource.com community,
contact [email protected]?subject=competition
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SPONSORSHIP NOTICE
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If you wish to sponsor the newsletter, or one of the
channels on the site please contact [email protected]
Thank you to Vivid Creations for sponsoring the newsletter
last month. https://www.vivid-creations.com
We are now accepting adverts in the newsletter too.
Attractive rates, haggling allowed!
[email protected]
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SPECIAL OFFER - one week only
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As an introductory offer to launch the catalogue, we are
offering free listings for jobs, products and training
courses. There has been considerable interest in listing
jobs and products on the website, so we hope this offer
will be of interest to all of those companies.
This offer is only valid for ONE WEEK, until Monday
14th February. iDevResource.com has to cover its costs,
but we would also like to repay all those who have
supported us through this initial development period.
Jobs will be listed for one month, products and training
courses for three months. All you have to pay is the
one time registration fee. More details can be found at
https://www.idevresource.com/specialoffersfeb.asp
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NEW THIS WEEK
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The All-new IDR forums
Designed and programmed by one of our gurus, the XML forums
are now open but we would like to remind everyone they are
in beta. Please report all bugs and make comments so that
we can get perfect them as soon as possible. There are
forums on books, SOAP, schema, you name it!
We shall slowly move all of the discussion groups over to
the forum area to ensure the community strength of the site.
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Gopalan Suresh Raj writes about the COM threading model
and the differences between COM and Win 32.
https://www.idevresource.com/com/library/bytesize/com_thread.asp
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This week should see a wealth of new articles on the site
so bookmark the This Week area (and tell us if our new favicon
works!) and watch the library shelves fill up.
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WANT TO WRITE FOR IDR?
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What's in it for you? Aside from fame and glory ;o)
iDevResource.com gives you the chance to get your ideas
and experience in front of your peers. Something not always
possible with other magazines.
Although we can't all be Richard Grimes - phew! - his
WTL Architecture article was read by approx 500 developers
on the first two days after publication. That's quite
an audience.
Download the template and read the guidelines here
https://www.idevresource.com/contribute.asp
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COM+
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Once again, we would like to issue a call for COM+ authors.
The COM+ Development Series is now in full swing, but there
are several articles which lack an author.
If you feel you could write about a specific area of COM+,
the list of articles can be found at
https://www.idevresource.com/com/library/articles.asp
and detailed outlines are available from [email protected]
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ASK THE GURUS
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Thank you for all the questions posted to Ask the Gurus in the
last week.
Do you know the answers to the questions and fancy becoming
an iDevResource.com guru? We'd welcome you on board and are
happy to give all gurus a page on Author Central at the very
least.
This week's questions:
In COM
https://www.idevresource.com/com/interactive/gurus.asp
Daniel Devine asked: Is there a way to describe a Windows
device context handle or Console handle in IDL?
Richard Grimes answered.
Lee Nana asked: I have 2 database servers that have the
same database schema (structure). I need to access both the
databases to retrieve data via MTS. May I know how it is
possible to do so?
The Anonymous Guru answered!
In ASP
https://www.idevresource.com/asp/interactive/gurus.asp
Dylan Snopkowski's question about displaying records
(a recordset question) has been turned into a Byte Size
article by guru David Sussman here
https://www.idevresource.com/asp/library/bytesize/recordset.asp
Oleh Matkovskyy's question about forms and session variables
only has a preliminary answer. Would you like to provide
a more complete answer? Email [email protected]
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INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES
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We would really like to encourage the international communities
and we need your help to do that. Each community aims to
benefit others from the same country or who speak the same
language, rather like the channels do for the different
technologies. What resource do you value most from your own
country? What is the best book you have read recently? What
events are happening in your country right now? What
conferences have come to your notice this week? Which
developers are the most sought after? What is the best
magazine in your country? etc etc
Let everyone know through the discussion groups at egroups.com
idev-de, idev-kr, idev-in, idev-uk etc.
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BOOKSHOP
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And, as we go to press, we would like to thank everyone for
supporting the bookstore - keep it up!! However, we would
just like to say that we are bemused by the purchases which
this week have included 'The Secrets of Lock Picking',
'Transparent soap making', and 'Tales from a Parallel Universe'
Music CD.
We shall be featuring the most bizarre purchases each week
in the newsletter!
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All the best
The iDevResource.com Team
https://www.idevresource.com
The professional developers' resource
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