[Soc-2005-dev] Dr Dobbs articles

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi all,

Do you want eternal fame & a kickstart for a brilliant career? Then  
consider to write an article for Dr Dobbs Journal. They want to include  
Google reports in their november issue. Even when there's 400 of them!

Below are some remarks from the Editor, Greg Wilson (gvwilson at  
cs.utoronto dot ca).


1) We'd like one article per mentor/student pair, rather than one  
article
    per sponsoring organization.  (Cramming all the Apache articles into
    400 words would be...challenging... ;-)

2) The average DDJ reader is pretty sophisticated --- 5-10 years in
    industry, speaks C well, knows one or two other languages, has some
    familiarity with threading and sockets, etc. --- so articles can be
    fairly dense (as in, you do *not* need to start with, "The Internet  
has
    revolutionized the way people access information." ;-)

3) Screen shots: send us full resolution, please, and we'll cut it down
    if we need to.

4) Format: the production staff are comfortable with plain old text (you
    can use the usual email/wiki conventions for *emphasis*), RTF (*not*
    .doc, for fear of infection), or minimalist HTML (nothing too funky).
    You'll get PDF or similar back to check before it runs.

5) By all means, have colleagues look it over, but please don't blog it,
    or post it on the web, before we've run it.

6) And by all means, if you want to write up your projects for other
    venues, please go ahead --- if you can find a home for a longer  
article
    on your work, then as far as we're concerned, the more publicity SOC
    gets, the better. All we ask is that you don't plagiarize yourself  
too
    much, in either direction.

-Ton-

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