We’ve Got You Covered

Editor's//Comment

We ve Got You Covered

By David Riggs

Where does the time go? As I peruse the last 11 issues Ican t believe we re wrapping up another year already. Looking at some of thecovers, it seems like just yesterday that we published this issue or thatissue. My wife s Scrabble board on the January cover.Jonathan Goodyear and Brian Peek s Finalizer robot on the June cover. The July collage cover that included a picture of me playing thebagpipes in college. Indeed, the covers provide a visual clue for me tomark time and content.

For instance, take the February issue (the cover featuredthe Windows Forms icon, which reminds me of the Partridge Family bus). That wasthe issue in which we introduced our readers to Michele Leroux Bustamante. Notthat she needs any introduction, but it was the issue wherein she started herASP.NET Under the Hood column. As Michele noted, Now that you ve had a chanceto play with ASP.NET and fall in love with it the real work begins. Sheset out to help us build real applications. As she explained at the time, Yousometimes have to dig under the covers and override the default behaviors ofthe ASP.NET runtime environment. Dig she did, and welook forward to more in-depth excavations into the inner workings of ASP.NET inthe coming months.

Then there was the April issue, wherein we introducedBipin Joshi s new column, CodeTalk. Throughoutthe course of this column, Bipin has illustrated the real-world use ofASP.NET features by dissecting small-scale applications. His articles combinedesign, concept, and code-level implementation. So far he s helped us build ablog (as illustrated on the April cover), build a photo gallery, and develop asurvey application.

In the December 2005 issue (the one with the strong guyholding the world on his shoulders and no, I didn t pose for that one), I putout the call for new writers. As I noted then, We feature a variety ofqualified writers, from the hired gun to the everyday developer that s partof what adds to the community atmosphere. But one thing all our writers have incommon is the ability and desire to share their passion and knowledge. And asI reiterated last month, If you re qualified to write about ASP.NETdevelopment, I ll find a way to get you published in asp.netPRO or our free monthly e-newsletter, asp.netNOW. We ve had quite a response, and have been fortunate tofeature several writers who answered the challenge, including Adnan Masood,Julia Lerman, James Culshaw, Chris D Agostino, Adwait Ullal, and others.

Through it all, our goal is to teach by example byoffering real-world applications and code. We strive to provide you with thehelpful programming tips and techniques you ve come to expect, as well as thelatest in ASP.NET development best practices. In addition to new talent, we arepleased to offer the continued contributions of such valued writers as Steve C.Orr, Dino Esposito, Mike Riley, Dan Wahlin, Ken McNamee, Wei-Meng Lee, ThiruThangarathinam, John Paul Mueller, and Jonathan Goodyear, to name only a few.

Experienced writers, new writers, quicktips, and three-part articles. Any way you look at it, we ve got youcovered. Thanks for reading.

David Riggs is editor-in-chief of asp.netPRO and its companione-newsletter, asp.netNOW. Reachhim at mailto:[email protected].