Jul 7 2006
ShoeMoney

Magazines That Dont Suck

16 people have said their piece on this post. What say you?

Here are magazines that I subscribe to and read.

  • Linux Magazine - All of my production servers (23 now) run the linux operating system and I do most of the system administration on them so I like to keep on top of what is going on with it. Generally I find 1 article or so that gets my attention until the end and for me, A.D.D Boy, that is saying a lot.

  • 2600 Magazine - I LOVE 2600. I have been reading 2600 since about 1994′ish. I have had 4 articles published in 2600 about random hacking stuff (mostly cellphone related) and I usually read 2600 cover to cover. I love the code samples. For instance this month they have a total walk through on how to hack facebook, myspace, and a bunch of other stuff that while I would not do the actual hacks its interesting to look at the Cross Site sploits to see if any of my stuff would be vulnerable to it.

    I worked in Unix Security for a fortune 500 company for years and I have to say most of the hardcore auditors and respected consultants I knew all read 2600 =).

  • Php Architect - I picked up this magazine in mid 2005 and really enjoyed the through step by step walk through. My php h4x is much better now and though I find a lot of the walk throughs trivial I always get great ideas from them. If you are wanting to learn PHP or a beginning PHP programer looking for something that starts at the beginning I highly recommend a subscription to this magazine.

  • Web Designer & Web Developer Magazines - These are UK based magazines and a little pricey (I think 15$ per) but they are jam packed with great tutorials and code. They also included a ton of software on there cds. Nice to have when your on a plane or stuck somewhere without net access. I kind of have a love/hate relationship with these mags. I love the fact they cover so much stuff and diversify the software and architecture at the same time it kind of sucks like when your a php developer and they only have 1 thing on php and the rest is on cold fusion and .net/asp

I keep all these magazines in the office library (otherwise known as the bathroom). No reason to waste time in there =P (money never sleeps pal)

Maybe you guys have some recomendations for other magazines?

  1. John said on July 7th, 2006 at 8:46 am

    So with 23 production servers (which could be anything), what are they up to - I know you operate a cellphone site or two, but I suspect that’s not all you do ?

    How come so many servers ? (especially when fishy can do it all on one or two =P )

  2. ShoeMoney said on July 7th, 2006 at 8:56 am

    hrmm 3 servers make up shoemoneyads which now has over 1000 people serving a combined 10 million impressions a day.

    1 mail server

    3 media servers running thttpd serving static content

    2 dev boxes

    10 box cluster doing something I dont want to disclose right now ;)
    2 backup servers

    other stuff I cant think of this second

  3. Georgie said on July 7th, 2006 at 9:42 am

    Where do you rent your dedicated server? I’m paying $239 a month and want to move as I feel I’m being a bit ripped off.

  4. Kiley said on July 7th, 2006 at 9:43 am

    Web Developer is my all time favorite magazine.
    Good stuff!
    I keep it in the “office”, as well.

  5. Rush said on July 7th, 2006 at 12:14 pm

    Which Web Designer & Web Developer Magazines?

  6. Jason said on July 7th, 2006 at 12:48 pm

    The web developer magz your talking about are good stuff. I pick them up at B&N.

    I also like to read Business 2.0 and find quite a few articles in there. I also tend to read a lot of hobby magazines (other than my hobbies), they give me tons of ideas and allow me to think about things in other areas that I may not have thought about before. So grab something out of the ordinary once in a while you’ll be surprised at what you get out of it.

    I use the office for reading as well, and either earmark or tear out the pages that give me ideas or sites I want to review.

    So what do you guys do with your old magazines? I’ve got two 6 foot tall stacks sitting in the other office that could use a new home!

  7. ShoeMoney said on July 7th, 2006 at 1:45 pm

    i co-locate with 4 different providers right now. I think your 239$ is ok depending on what your getting.

    I got to the point where I am just paying by the rack.

  8. Rob said on July 7th, 2006 at 2:02 pm

    I’m subscribed to Wired, Seed, Make and Business 2.0

    All recommended!

  9. Jason Murphy said on July 7th, 2006 at 5:18 pm

    Wired. Not an option. Must have it.

    Also, back in the prime days of CMP, New Architect was the shiznit. But they went defunct and I miss them dearly.

    Website Services is my bread and butter now.

  10. Soj said on July 7th, 2006 at 7:27 pm

    I was thinking about getting a subscription to business 2.0, i also wonder if DN Journal will make it to the printing press, i have always loved reading their articles.

  11. John said on July 8th, 2006 at 9:18 am

    10 box cluster doing something I dont want to disclose right now ;)…

    OK, now I’m intrigued - good to hear the Ad servers are hummin, but the cluster.. I reckon it’s media of some sort.. aww hell, it could just be a farm..

    DAMN THE INTRIGUE !!!! ;)

  12. Ferrarislave said on July 11th, 2006 at 8:56 pm

    Nice, I read advanced photoshop user magazine and photoshop user magazine. As well as PHP architect. I will take a look at 2600….

    Thanks Shoemoney!

  13. gio said on July 14th, 2006 at 2:30 pm

    Where can I subscribe for Web Designer & Web Developer Magazines. Does anyone know the url.

    Gio

  14. agent said on July 17th, 2006 at 11:09 pm

    Do you have anything that talks about Affiliate Marketing?

  15. Jeremy said on March 12th, 2007 at 12:21 pm

    Gotta have Wired. For me, Popular Science is also a must have as well as The Nation. 2600 is now on my list.

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