{"id":150,"date":"2009-01-07T20:24:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T02:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/?p=150"},"modified":"2009-01-07T20:24:56","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T02:24:56","slug":"dr-dobbs-being-absorbed-into-informationweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/07\/dr-dobbs-being-absorbed-into-informationweek\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Dobb&#8217;s being absorbed into InformationWeek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember seeing Dr. Dobb&#8217;s when it was one of the few computer magazines (along with Kilobaud Microcomputing, Pet Gazette, and Nybble) available.  The last issue I got reminded me it was a shade of it&#8217;s former self, and I guess someone agrees, because <a href=\"http:\/\/ztrek.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/dr-dobbs-soon-to-become-monthly-section.html\">it will no longer be a standalone magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Originally called &#8220;Dr. Dobb&#8217;s Journal of Tiny Basic Calisthenics and Orthodontia &#8211; R<em>unning Light without Overbyte<\/em>&#8220;, I first saw it on the shelf at the local library, probably about 1978 or 1979.  A lot of what they were talking about was WAY over my head, but I read through it anyway, since it was one of the few computer publications available.<\/p>\n<p>I always enjoyed reading the magazine, but as I said, in the last year or two it was a shade of it&#8217;s former self.   I&#8217;m not sure what will happen to &#8220;Swaine&#8217;s Flames&#8221; or that very long running C\/C++ ad they ALWAYS ran since this is all being folded into InformationWeek (which spams me constantly to subscribe, btw)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sad to see it go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember seeing Dr. Dobb&#8217;s when it was one of the few computer magazines (along with Kilobaud Microcomputing, Pet Gazette, and Nybble) available. The last issue I got reminded me it was a shade of it&#8217;s former self, and I guess someone agrees, because it will no longer be a standalone magazine. Originally called &#8220;Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[111,109,110],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-steve","tag-computer-magazine","tag-dr-dobbs","tag-information-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}