Editor's//Comment
Got Issues?
By David Riggs
As is often the case after my Celtic band, Riggity Jig,plays a gig, I was sitting around the pub chatting up the owners. It?s never abad idea to stay in good graces with the people who hire the talent; besides, Ilike these folks, and we were having a good time trading quips. At one pointduring the course of conversation the daughter of one of the owners said to hermom, ?You have issues.? Without missing a beat camethe retort, ?I don?t just have issues, I have the whole subscription.?
Sure, it was kitschy ? it is an old line, after all ? but I laughed. It was funny ? maybe itwas the delivery; maybe it was the context; maybe it was only funny in that end-of-the-night-sitting-around-the-pubkind of way. Or maybe I was chuckling in a way only possible for someoneinvolved in the publishing industry, where issuesand subscriptions have real, day-jobmeanings.
Professionally speaking, ?having issues? is a good thing. Itis not indicative of, nor does it connotate, any kind of paranoia, hang-ups,obsessions, discord, or controversy of any kind. For me it signifies anothermonth of pertinent and useful content bundled up and delivered to your mailboxin one convenient package; a monthly learning tool that helps you keep up andstay ahead of the development curve.
In fact, last month was our 50th issue of asp.netPRO. We?ve covered such topics asmigrating from ASP to ASP.NET, security, component design and implementation,and many of the new whiz-bang features of ASP.NET 2.0 ? and most everything inbetween. Hopefully in all those issues we?ve addressed the issues with whichyou have issues.
But if you don?t have issues, we can help. Maybe youstarted your subscription recently and want to get caught up on what youmissed. Maybe you loaned your favorite copy of asp.netPRO to a colleague, never to see it again. Maybe you spilledcoffee on that one killer article that provided the defining last-piece-of-the-puzzlecode snippet. Maybe not. Whatever the case may be, wehave ways to hook you up with what you need. Need a back issue? No problem;simply e-mail mailto:customerservice@informant.comto order a copy. Want the complete run of asp.netPROand asp.netNOW in a portable format?Again, we?re here for you; visit https://www.aspnetpro.com/orders/cdorders.aspto order asp.netPRO Complete Works 2005Edition and you?ll have instant access to every article ever published, aswell as all the hot code downloads, reviews, and op-ed articles ? all on onesearchable CD. Maybe you get the free monthly e-newsletter and want to start asubscription to the magazine. Again, we can get you there from here; go to https://www.aspnetpro.com/members/subscribe/standard.asp.
All of these great resources provide the cutting-edgecontent the ASP.NET community covets. There?s no excuse to not have in yourarsenal what you demand to develop, deploy, and distribute the next-generationof dynamic Web apps. And we are passionate about providing the tools andtechniques to help you meet your challenges.
Yes, we have issues. Do you?
Thanks for reading.
David Riggs is editor-in-chief of asp.netPRO and its companione-newsletter, asp.netNOW. Reachhim at mailto:driggs@informant.com.