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iDevResource.com
Newsletter for developers and programmers
Jan 2000 Issue #1
IDude, Editor, [email protected]
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IN THIS ISSUE
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=> Welcome
=> Message from our sponsor
=> About IDR
=> First developer wins $100 prize!!
=> Articles
=> Community
=> Channelmeisters
=> Industry News
=> Freebies
=> Competitions
=> How to Be Featured as our Guest Columnist
=> 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 each week.
Firstly, Happy New Year to all our subscribers, and here's
to the Millennium Bug which wasn't!
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
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MESSAGE FROM OUR SPONSOR
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ABOUT IDR
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iDevResource.com is a developer resource and community
site, run by a group of developers who are sharing 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
continue growing. 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 - which includes COM, COM+, ATL, DCOM etc
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*ATR - All The Rest! This channel includes VB, Linux, C++
and all those languages and technologies not in
the four main channels. As time goes on and the
resources become more intensive, new channels will
be set up to cover each area
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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.
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International - Forums for the international community of
developers, and translations of articles where appropriate.
Translators are welcome to contribute articles in their own
language, or to translate existing articles on the site.
We hope that the international communities will also feature
great resources from each country.
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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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1st DEVELOPER GETS AN IDR $100 PRIZE!!
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During January 2000, iDevResource.com is offering
developers the chance to share their knowledge, and win
$100 dollars in to the bargain. More details at
https://www.idevresource.com/articlecomp.asp.
We are really pleased to be able to announce that one
person has decided to make the most of this opportunity,
and will shortly be nursing his Amazon voucher for $100,
for a great article entitled "Active Template Library -
Architecture & Internals" which can be found at
https://www.idevresource.com/com/library/articles/atlinternals.asp
So, a hearty congratulations to Shivesh Viswanathan, who
will soon be featured in Author Central too. Enjoy!
To all you budding authors, start writing and see if you
can be the next one to win! Less than two weeks left!
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ARTICLES
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Just in case you missed the entire previous section......!
During January 2000, iDevResource.com is offering 100
dollars for articles accepted for publication. Details of
the offer can be read at
https://www.idevresource.com/articlecomp.asp
All articles on the site can be discussed in the discussion
groups at onelist.com (see COMMUNITY section below).
Top article this week is:
An Introduction to WTL by Dr Richard Grimes
https://www.idevresource.com/com/library/bytesize/wtl.asp
New articles on the site include:
COM Channel -
MTS by Dr Richard Grimes
https://www.idevresource.com/com/library/articles/mts.asp
What COM is all about by Dr Richard Grimes
https://www.idevresource.com/com/library/articles/whatcomisallabout.asp
String Binding Moniker by Frank Rem
https://www.idevresource.com/com/library/articles/stringbindingmoniker.asp
COM and apartments by Dr Richard Grimes
https://www.idevresource.com/com/library/bytesize/comapartments.asp
An Introduction to WTL by Dr Richard Grimes
https://www.idevresource.com/com/library/bytesize/wtl.asp
Intro to Interface Programming by Dr Richard Grimes
https://www.idevresource.com/com/library/bytesize/interfaceprog.asp
Active Template Library - Architecture & Internals by
Shivesh Viswanathan
https://www.idevresource.com/com/library/articles/atlinternals.asp
XML Channel
Article suggestions can be found at
https://www.idevresource.com/xml
Type Library Info, XML and a little XSL
https://www.idevresource.com/xml/library/bytesize/typelib.asp
ASP Channel
Beginning ASP Components by Richard Anderson
https://www.idevresource.com/asp/library/articles/begcom.asp
ADO Recordset by David Sussman
https://www.idevresource.com/asp/library/bytesize/recordset.asp
ASP FAQ's
https://www.idevresource.com/asp/library/bytesize.asp
Articles about ASP needed! Don't forget the January offer of
100 dollars for the best articles submitted for publication!
Java Channel
The Enterprise Java Beans Series by Gopalan Suresh Raj
is up, and it is great stuff!
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!
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.
Anyone wishing to write an article for any of these series
should contact:
[email protected]?subject=Article Idea
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COMMUNITY
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iDevResource.com is a community website, and there is a
growing IDR community of developers now. There are
discussion lists on all topics at onelist.com
dev-com, dev-xml, dev-adsi, dev-mts, dev-asp,
dev-java, dev-linux, dev-atl, dev-sap, dev-xml-osp
Chat rooms will be set up in all the channels, and there
will be scheduled chats over the coming months, covering
topics such as Windows 2000, SOAP etc, with renowned
authors and gurus. Suggest a chat subject at
[email protected]?subject=chat
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INDUSTRY NEWS
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We shall shortly be implementing a live newsfeed into
the site to keep us all up to date with what is going on
out there.
In the meantime, we appreciate all the news items being
sent in by developers. Send to
[email protected]?subject=Breaking News
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
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Advertising for All. No matter how big your business or
your target audience, advertising helps. To assist
companies both large and small, and individuals, to draw
attention to their website, products, services, etc we
are offering free advertising on IDR. Although this seems
a somewhat bizarre idea, it fits in with our Open
Publishing model.
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 at the beginning of each
month. More details are available at
https://www.idevresource.com/advertising.asp
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COMPETITIONS
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This week's newsletter competition is to suggest a name
for the newsletter. It should be short, snappy, suitable
and here by Thursday, 26th Jan. Any received before then
will be included in a vote on the site during the coming
week. All entries to [email protected].
The prize? An IDR-exclusive surprise!
The competition on the site this week is a Trivia
Competition. Details can be found in This Week and there
is a general discussion ongoing in the dev-idr group.
https://www.onelist.com/community/dev-idr. Please join in!
The prize is an exclusive IDR t-shirt.
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How to be a guest columnist
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If you would like to submit a guest column for the
newsletter, just drop the Editor a line at
[email protected], stating what you would like to
write about.
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