Nothin' but .NET (Literally)

Brian C Hart

Is it just me, or is the only venue where you can publish trivial (and not trivial) MFC/C++ handy-to-know kind of articles is The Code Project?? And Chris doesn't even pay anybody who contributes. CUJ and WDJ pay, but they are extremely picky and want you to be a Computer Scientist about what you write. MSDN magazine? Nothin' but .NET. I need to publish for money so I can eat, but problem is I don't know how to make sense of this C#/.NET ...stuff... and it seems that conference talks or publishing venues won't publish anything else... ARRGH! This is SO frustrating! Any suggestions? Is there anybody that can identify with this?? :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart "And that's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and the children are above-average." - Garrison Keillor

Jon Sagara

Embrace change. In your case, it sounds like .NET is where the money is. Jon Sagara What about :bob:?

Paul Watson

Brian Hart wrote: Any suggestions? Well two things. Either go with the trend and start writing about .NET, it is always good to learn new things and if you are already publishing for MFC/C++ then you must have a talent for writing and so you can apply it to .NET. Or you can find journals/magazines/publications/sites which are not flooded by .NET hype and who still want C++ articles. Brian Hart wrote: And Chris doesn't even pay anybody who contributes I would be careful how you make that sound. We all know the reason for CP, we all know how it works and we all know why we write for it. Money isn't it and I don't think we want it to become a "paid article" site. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge Martin Marvinski wrote: Unfortunatly Deep Throat isn't my cup of tea Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront

Reno Tiko

Brian Hart wrote: I need to publish for money so I can eat, Writing articles or books for money doesn't pay the bills. Why don't you take your MFC/C++ knowledege and do some consulting or write your own program and then sell it. Anything beats writing articles or books. I don't think most of the article or book writers do it for the money either, they just love sharing their knowledge and/or code with others. Basically giving back to the community from which they've learned so much from. (I've yet to give back to CodeProject and CodeGuru which have helped me immensely due to the generous authors who have taken their free time to donate to the community). It's sort of similar to that "Give it Forward" (or something like that) movie where one person starts a chain reaction of good things which results in others starting their own help someone else chain reaction.

Nish Nishant

Paul Watson wrote: I would be careful how you make that sound. We all know the reason for CP, we all know how it works and we all know why we write for it. Money isn't it Exactly. I dont think anyone here who has written anything for CP had money as an intention. Not at all. Fame and fun perhaps. But not money. Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

Nish Nishant

Brian Hart Here is what I think you can do. Write a negative .NET book. Rant about how much you hate .NET, how it's so damn slow, how it's so damn bulky etc. Compare everything with ATL and show how all that multiple assembly version thing is just another form of DLL hell. Got it? And tell me today itself whether you are gonna write it, you better do it fast, because others might grab my wonderful idea before you do that. Regards Nish Idea-Man Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

Paul Watson

Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: I dont think anyone here who has written anything for CP had money as an intention. Not at all. Fame and fun perhaps. The phrase I like to use when nailing down why we do what we do is: peer respect It is like fame, just not as arrogant or self centered. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge Martin Marvinski wrote: Unfortunatly Deep Throat isn't my cup of tea Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront

Paul Watson

Reno Tiko wrote: Writing articles or books for money doesn't pay the bills FYI they say that J.K.Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, is very likely to become the first billion dollar writer. i.e. She is likely to earn over a billion dollars on the books she has written (plus merchandise of course.) Also other authors have made a good living off of writing. e.g. Stephen King, Arthur C Clarke, Wilbur Smith etc. But I do agree that it is LIKELY that you will not pay your bills by being an author :) Just like artists or open source programmers. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge Martin Marvinski wrote: Unfortunatly Deep Throat isn't my cup of tea Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront

Reno Tiko

Yeah, I didn't mean it in the strictest sense, only in general. Those authors are the exceptions. Paul Watson wrote: Just like artists or open source programmers. :laugh: I agree.

Chris Maunder

The thing with .NET is that because it's so new it puts all content providers (books, magazines, websites) back on an even playing field, with the thought that whoever has the most content the soonest and makes the biggest noise about it will ultimitely win when .NET matures in the coming months and years. Whatever 'winning' means. Another thing is that there are SO many MFC, C++, ATL, COM etc etc books and articles out there that many authors and publishing houses are jumping on the opportunity for new topics to write about. Unfortunately it's a bit like a feeding frenzy at the moment and it's getting more and more difficult to pick the best book to buy out of the dozens of different books all discussing the same subject matter. In any case, we still love C++ and MFC :) cheers, Chris Maunder

BlameUS

"Brian Hart Here is what I think you can do. Write a negative .NET book." And I will be the first one to buy it. ;)

PJ Arends

Yeah right, I can see it now, C++/MFC action figures:omg: :-D :-D --- Sonork 100.11743 Chicken Little It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.

Nish Nishant

Paul Watson wrote: It is like fame, just not as arrogant or self centered. hey the desire for fame might be a self-centered thought, but fame by itself is not a self-centered thing at all. As for arrogance, it depends on the person. I believe you can be famous and need not be necessaruly arrogant about it Nish p.s. But my favorite guru - Joe Newcomer - is verrryyy arrogant and I think that's really cool! Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

Nish Nishant

Brian, here is your first customer :-) Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

Brian C Hart

Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: And tell me today itself whether you are gonna write it, you better do it fast, because others might grab my wonderful idea before you do that. You go ahead :) Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart "And that's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and the children are above-average." - Garrison Keillor

Brian C Hart

Reno Tiko wrote: I don't think most of the article or book writers do it for the money either, Of course not. I completely agree - my goal is to share what I know with others. I have done this for three years on that basis, and hope for the chance to do it more. :) Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart "And that's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and the children are above-average." - Garrison Keillor

Nish Nishant

:-( Seems like you didnt like my idea :-( Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

Nish Nishant

Chris AS an addendum to your comments, I should say that I havent heard of a book on Managed C++ so far. There are so many C# and VB.NET books but perhaps someone could write an introduction to .NET programming using Managed C++ Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

Brian C Hart

Thank you for all the help sorting stuff out, guys. It really is one of the things that makes CP such a good site. :) Besides all the articles :) I totally want to say that whatever my original message might imply, I know and understand the reasoning behind the public-domainedness of CP -- keep it up Chris. I thank all of you for sharing your opinions and ideas! Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart "And that's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and the children are above-average." - Garrison Keillor

Brian C Hart

Not at all, that's cool! :) Funny I even brought up what I did originally :-O Being that I'm in the last semester of school, a book is too big of a time commitment -- learned that from a book project I just got this March -- fell through because there was not enough time. Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart "And that's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and the children are above-average." - Garrison Keillor