>I have never been able to read more than three paragraphs of one of Mariam's articles without turning the page, and if the title is one I don't have an interest in, I don't even bother. With MOST other authors, even if it is a topic I don't have much interest in, I will read it. Usually, the article is interesting and informative, and sometimes I can apply the info or a technique to a different subject.
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Gee, you like here stuff that much...< bg >. Seriously, I encourage you to submit your feedback to Tamar. I don't think they get a lot of critical feedback. The magazine is in seriously bad shape. I once timed how long it would take me to go from front to back and glean all of the worthwhile technical content. 15 minutes.. That is pretty bad. The technical content is marginal at best. Steve's column is about the only thing worthwhile in the magazine. Andy MacNeill's stuff on ActiveX controls is OK. After that, it is a total crap shoot as to what you are going to get. For the intermediate to advanced developer, it is devoid of meaningful content.

>Also, I don't think putting VB articles in FoxAdvisor is advantageous. Either a FP Advisor reader is interested in VB or they are not. If they are interested they can get VBPJ, if they are not, they won't read VB articles in FP Advisor. In addition, as a subscriber, it was a waste of space, I buy FP Advisor for FP info, not to learn, or be convinced to learn VB.
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You should definitely pass these feelings onto Tamar. I for one think it is good to have non-fox topics in the magazine, so long as they concentrate on how to integrate those issues with Fox. The most important aspect however is in having somebody who knows what they are talking about writing the article.


>Besides, FP Advisor has become thin enough as it is... two years ago it was twice as thick, and it wasn't more ads, it was more content. Granted they print alot less code now, but I still think the average number of articles and FP info is much less.
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>Is there really no new FP info to learn, or are people just not submitting articles?
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