"Your CODE Magazine Subscription Has Expired!"
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And I purposely let it expire. I've been subscribed to CODE Magaine for years, and IMHO, I've seen a decline in uselful content. As I write this I'm holding my last issue from MAR/APR 21. Whenever I get one I immediatly open it and go to the Table of Contents to see what's in it, and I have been more and more dissappointed over time. 1. I'm a long time WinForms/WPF developer. I don't care what anyone says - Windows development isn't going away. There are until millions of apps running on Windows that will never be a web app. I'm working on a WPF LOB app right now that may, at some point, have portions of it on a tablet, but the heart of it is and will be WPF. I have and will continue to make mile living doing Windows desktop devlopment. CODE magazine seems to have abandoned Windows development. 2. Unproven concepts. It seems like CODE is really just a platform for telling its readers what new wiz/bang feature they can try, rather than showing solutions to real world problems. 3. The same old "Guru" authors. Same author means same old tired content. No fresh ideas. 4. No reader feedback. There used to be an area where readers could write in and ask questions and/or discuss previous issues. IMHO - If a resource doesn't provide content that helps you get the job done, or you don't learn anything usefull from it, it's time to dump it. Your thoughts?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
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And I purposely let it expire. I've been subscribed to CODE Magaine for years, and IMHO, I've seen a decline in uselful content. As I write this I'm holding my last issue from MAR/APR 21. Whenever I get one I immediatly open it and go to the Table of Contents to see what's in it, and I have been more and more dissappointed over time. 1. I'm a long time WinForms/WPF developer. I don't care what anyone says - Windows development isn't going away. There are until millions of apps running on Windows that will never be a web app. I'm working on a WPF LOB app right now that may, at some point, have portions of it on a tablet, but the heart of it is and will be WPF. I have and will continue to make mile living doing Windows desktop devlopment. CODE magazine seems to have abandoned Windows development. 2. Unproven concepts. It seems like CODE is really just a platform for telling its readers what new wiz/bang feature they can try, rather than showing solutions to real world problems. 3. The same old "Guru" authors. Same author means same old tired content. No fresh ideas. 4. No reader feedback. There used to be an area where readers could write in and ask questions and/or discuss previous issues. IMHO - If a resource doesn't provide content that helps you get the job done, or you don't learn anything usefull from it, it's time to dump it. Your thoughts?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
Windows development isn't going away, but it is on a decline IMHO because most app dev is web/mobile. it's not rocket science as to why CODE magazine and others like it are declining in useful content for windows development. That is my knee jerk reaction to your post. I could be very wrong here.
Kevin Marois wrote:
If a resource doesn't provide content that helps you get the job done, or you don't learn anything usefull from it, it's time to dump it.
:thumbsup::thumbsup:
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Windows development isn't going away, but it is on a decline IMHO because most app dev is web/mobile. it's not rocket science as to why CODE magazine and others like it are declining in useful content for windows development. That is my knee jerk reaction to your post. I could be very wrong here.
Kevin Marois wrote:
If a resource doesn't provide content that helps you get the job done, or you don't learn anything usefull from it, it's time to dump it.
:thumbsup::thumbsup:
Slacker007 wrote:
Windows development isn't going away, but it is on a decline IMHO because most app dev is web/mobile.
I guess that depeneds on what you mean by 'decline'. As I mentioned, there is no shortage of Windows development work that I can see. Most of it seems to be at the corporate level, where companies have IT departments running internal apps. But shiny, flashy new web apps are a dime a dozen, so it's probably a trade of. Both have their uses.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
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And I purposely let it expire. I've been subscribed to CODE Magaine for years, and IMHO, I've seen a decline in uselful content. As I write this I'm holding my last issue from MAR/APR 21. Whenever I get one I immediatly open it and go to the Table of Contents to see what's in it, and I have been more and more dissappointed over time. 1. I'm a long time WinForms/WPF developer. I don't care what anyone says - Windows development isn't going away. There are until millions of apps running on Windows that will never be a web app. I'm working on a WPF LOB app right now that may, at some point, have portions of it on a tablet, but the heart of it is and will be WPF. I have and will continue to make mile living doing Windows desktop devlopment. CODE magazine seems to have abandoned Windows development. 2. Unproven concepts. It seems like CODE is really just a platform for telling its readers what new wiz/bang feature they can try, rather than showing solutions to real world problems. 3. The same old "Guru" authors. Same author means same old tired content. No fresh ideas. 4. No reader feedback. There used to be an area where readers could write in and ask questions and/or discuss previous issues. IMHO - If a resource doesn't provide content that helps you get the job done, or you don't learn anything usefull from it, it's time to dump it. Your thoughts?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
Kevin Marois wrote:
No reader feedback.
At a guess ... no readers. Printed magazines - particularly computer ones - have been dying for decades. Remember "Computer World[^]"? Every week a printed lump arrived and was perused while compiling / assembling. Went fully digital kinda late (2014) and was pretty dead from the 90's onward. Even the printed computer games mags appear to have died - I used to get PC Zone every month - but I haven' seen one even on a shelf in the supermarket for years!
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Kevin Marois wrote:
No reader feedback.
At a guess ... no readers. Printed magazines - particularly computer ones - have been dying for decades. Remember "Computer World[^]"? Every week a printed lump arrived and was perused while compiling / assembling. Went fully digital kinda late (2014) and was pretty dead from the 90's onward. Even the printed computer games mags appear to have died - I used to get PC Zone every month - but I haven' seen one even on a shelf in the supermarket for years!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
True, but I got it both in print and electronically.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
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And I purposely let it expire. I've been subscribed to CODE Magaine for years, and IMHO, I've seen a decline in uselful content. As I write this I'm holding my last issue from MAR/APR 21. Whenever I get one I immediatly open it and go to the Table of Contents to see what's in it, and I have been more and more dissappointed over time. 1. I'm a long time WinForms/WPF developer. I don't care what anyone says - Windows development isn't going away. There are until millions of apps running on Windows that will never be a web app. I'm working on a WPF LOB app right now that may, at some point, have portions of it on a tablet, but the heart of it is and will be WPF. I have and will continue to make mile living doing Windows desktop devlopment. CODE magazine seems to have abandoned Windows development. 2. Unproven concepts. It seems like CODE is really just a platform for telling its readers what new wiz/bang feature they can try, rather than showing solutions to real world problems. 3. The same old "Guru" authors. Same author means same old tired content. No fresh ideas. 4. No reader feedback. There used to be an area where readers could write in and ask questions and/or discuss previous issues. IMHO - If a resource doesn't provide content that helps you get the job done, or you don't learn anything usefull from it, it's time to dump it. Your thoughts?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
Too bad, I always liked Code Magazine but as you said the articles are not that appealing anymore. You can read it online too btw: CODE Magazine Home[^] :-\
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And I purposely let it expire. I've been subscribed to CODE Magaine for years, and IMHO, I've seen a decline in uselful content. As I write this I'm holding my last issue from MAR/APR 21. Whenever I get one I immediatly open it and go to the Table of Contents to see what's in it, and I have been more and more dissappointed over time. 1. I'm a long time WinForms/WPF developer. I don't care what anyone says - Windows development isn't going away. There are until millions of apps running on Windows that will never be a web app. I'm working on a WPF LOB app right now that may, at some point, have portions of it on a tablet, but the heart of it is and will be WPF. I have and will continue to make mile living doing Windows desktop devlopment. CODE magazine seems to have abandoned Windows development. 2. Unproven concepts. It seems like CODE is really just a platform for telling its readers what new wiz/bang feature they can try, rather than showing solutions to real world problems. 3. The same old "Guru" authors. Same author means same old tired content. No fresh ideas. 4. No reader feedback. There used to be an area where readers could write in and ask questions and/or discuss previous issues. IMHO - If a resource doesn't provide content that helps you get the job done, or you don't learn anything usefull from it, it's time to dump it. Your thoughts?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
Kevin Marois wrote:
If a resource doesn't provide content that helps you get the job done, or you don't learn anything usefull from it, it's time to dump it.
Sage advice regarding any "resource." :laugh:
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Windows development isn't going away, but it is on a decline IMHO because most app dev is web/mobile. it's not rocket science as to why CODE magazine and others like it are declining in useful content for windows development. That is my knee jerk reaction to your post. I could be very wrong here.
Kevin Marois wrote:
If a resource doesn't provide content that helps you get the job done, or you don't learn anything usefull from it, it's time to dump it.
:thumbsup::thumbsup:
The lack of "windows" on web / mobile is a function of the (lame) browser and small (mobile) screens and / or lack of multi-tasking. The MR / VR headsets (also "mobile") have operating systems that feature "windows" ... because they can. The browser is just another app (window) in this case. Virtual space / holographics means windows are practical (again).
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