Comments on: Dear .NET

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:47:04 +0000

For one who is not so experienced as to pick up the mistakes you have, James, what is a good place to start to learn JS like that properly? Can you list any good blogs for HTML/CSS3/JS?

By: James Waples

James Waples — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:02:37 +0000

Thank you for this article! I cannot believe an actual, real, paper, published magazine can contain content this useless!

Also, I very much like your site theme – good work!

By: jaba

jaba — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:00:59 +0000

I’ve been a Microsoft Developer for 25 years. I hate ASP.Net but love C# Winform development. The open source word has converted me to move away from the dark side (aka Microsoft). Most developers coding in .Net are mainly pushing .Net due to corporate initiatives anyway. I won’t read their biased inaccurate magazine. Most forms of printed media is going away anyway.

Open source rules!

By: Rick Waldron

Rick Waldron — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:25:14 +0000

I’ve submitted a number of code re-writes to this magazine and so far have been completely ignored.

Far too often the examples are extraordinarily irresponsible.

By: tfforums

tfforums — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 04:00:23 +0000

did the .NET Magazine hire a hit-man or something? u’ve been of the radar for a while James…

By: Esvelte Web Design (Sheffield UK)

Esvelte Web Design (Sheffield UK) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:57:41 +0000

Sock it to ’em! I hope you never inspect some of my code too closely as I’ve probably been guilty of this as well on occasion! Then again, I don’t write for a large magazine with thousands of readers taking my word for granted…

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:23:55 +0000

I am by no means a great jQuery developer but I do know quite a bit about the API and make a point of following the best practices etc.

@Chris I do sort of agree with you but I also think that they could at least try and follow some good practices such as using the ‘this’ keyword instead of re querying the DOM.

Also if they want to do articles like this is it not a better idea to start with the real basics of what jQuery is and then issue by issue work your way up. That seems like a much better idea to me, it would also mean people would potentially buy the mag to get the next installment. I remember thats what a couple of the decent IT magazines used to do.

Anyway, I think that unless the editors are completely passionate about what they put into their magazine and make a point of being the best then they are waisting their time and should write about plants or something.

Thats my 2 cents anyway. 🙂

By: James

James — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:09:22 +0000

@Chris, it really doesn’t matter who they’re targeting. If they’re going to publish an article on the topic of jQuery then it is their responsibility to make sure it’s accurate, up-to-date and shows code that complies with best practices. If they can’t at least do that then they really are utterly pointless and only serve to perpetuate an inaccurate image of currently utilised technologies, which isn’t exactly a useful pursuit.

By: Chris McKee

Chris McKee — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:13:13 +0000

Its a shame; but what your saying would suggest that they were targeting people with any real knowledge of programming structure or even the jquery best practice or crazier still JavaScript.

jQuery brought what was once rather lengthy JavaScript + DHTML to the masses, I vaguely remember it pushing itself as JavaScript for designers… not front end developers but designers.

Hopefully the people who read these hacked together articles get a taste for jQuery and what its doing for them and then go on to learn more about it. .NET magazine has always been the flashy tart of the web-mag industry pushing out articles on any old crap thats trending so I’m a tad surprised to see anyones still surprised. It keeps amateur designers/students and teenagers calling themselves web designers happy and obviously generates interest for some people. Going off the IT uptake in the UK we need something to get people interested so lets put down the flaming pitchforks and leave it to do what it does best (keeping fat web-lebritities in shiny suits).

Hey look Zeldmans in the next issue http://www.netmag.co.uk/zine/latest-issue/issue-206 ;o)

By: tom

tom — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:51:40 +0000

All they care is get all page stuffed with web hosting ads!