I buy it for the articles.
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Scott Barnes <[email protected]>wrote: > MSDN floats with the DPE tide mark. Its an editorial version of evangelism > and its sole purpose is to get folks onto the new while showing them > bridges from the old to the new. If DPE spend cycles talking to you about > Windows 8 AppStore + JavaScript then MSDN will usually follow. > > This is really not a "magazine" for sustaining existing adoption(s) its > really a marketing tool to get you move over to whatever next.. > > --- > Regards, > Scott Barnes > http://www.riagenic.com > > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> MSDN mag was once something I read cover to cover. Now, I glance at the >>>>> front page, maybe read the editorial, then throw it into a drawer never to >>>>> be looked at again. >>>>> Am I the only one? >>>>> >>>> >> Hell no! I'm fed up with articles about phones, Windows 8, Store Apps, >> Javascript and WinRT (mostly telling us what WinRT *can't do*). For >> years I was also slowly getting sick of McCaffrey's articles which were >> getting so academic that they were useless for real-world developers. So >> useless in fact that I was going to email the editors and politely tell >> them that although I'm a profound geek, I have absolutely no use for >> genetic algorithms, matrix decomposition, adaptive boosting or artificial >> immune systems. Even Petzold's relentless articles about perspective >> graphics and music synthesis aren't of much use or interest (even though >> I'm a musician). >> >> I have an almost unbroken set of issues going back to May 1993, and in >> the last 2 years I have felt the same shift of focus away from core >> languages, tools and frameworks into what marketing must think they want us >> to read. I scan all pages, but I find I'm increasingly flipping over more >> and more pages like you. >> >> Greg K >> >> P.S. I'd better go and look in the letterbox. >> > >
