{"id":1852,"date":"2009-01-07T12:28:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T16:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2012-11-12T21:47:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T02:47:29","slug":"rip-dr-dobbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/07\/rip-dr-dobbs\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Dr. Dobb&rsquo;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericsink.com\/entries\/rip_dr_dobbs.html\">Eric Sink<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.ericsink.com\/entries\/rip_dr_dobbs.html\"><p>Still, the passing of this magazine is rather historic for our young industry.  Dr. Dobb&rsquo;s first started publication in 1976, about the same time that Microsoft and Apple were founded.  A significant slice of today&rsquo;s programmers weren&rsquo;t even born yet.  For many people, the last few years of 64-page issues are all they have ever seen of DDJ.  They don&rsquo;t remember that Dr. Dobb&rsquo;s Journal was a pretty great magazine back in its day.\r\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>I read and <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/17\/mac_developer_journal_tak\/\">enjoyed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ddj.com\">Dr. Dobb&rsquo;s<\/a> from the mid-nineties until a few years ago, when it had become thinner and more Windows-centric.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Sink: Still, the passing of this magazine is rather historic for our young industry. Dr. Dobb&rsquo;s first started publication in 1976, about the same time that Microsoft and Apple were founded. A significant slice of today&rsquo;s programmers weren&rsquo;t even born yet. For many people, the last few years of 64-page issues are all they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6546,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions\/6546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}