Dr. Dobb's closes ?! Say it ain't so.
Yesterday came the news that UBM is shuttering the venerable Dr. Dobb's Journal as the Brit-based corporation continues its inexorable exit from technology journalism. I know it shouldn't be surprising but this one hits close to home... literally. I was out of J-school for about a year, working part time for a local daily newspaper and desperate for a full time gig. I heard about this new publication started by some Stanford geeks that was just a short walk from my parents house, so I decided to go down and put my resume in. Of course, I had no idea what computer programming wa so there wasn't a chance in hell of getting a job there, but I walked my resume through the door anyway. I never did get a call. But through the years, DDJ grew up with me in the world. I learned alot about technology through its pages, both in print until 2009 and then only online. When they were acquired by UBM, though, I knew it was only a matter of time. As Andrew B...