It seems to me that every few months I have a huge stack of tech magazines ready to come crashing down: IEEE Software, IEEE Computer, InfoWorld, JDJ, DDJ, and some others that I didn’t ask for but keep showing up. As I look at them I keep thinking I can’t toss them since I might need that info at some point — but then I have to admit that in the past ten (or twenty) years I can’t really recall going back to ever find old articles in those things. IEEE’s library offers full-text search, clunky as it is, and most of the mass-coder mags (like JDJ) seem to be fully available online. And the truth is, their quality has taken a dive or else my critical threshold has risen. As a quick test, I found an article of interest about the development of a useful-looking Java testing suite composed of OSS projects, called TestMaker. I entered this string into Google: “open source java test automation scalability performance”, which is what I’d probably use looking for that kind of information…and it was the second hit.
So I’m tossing that stack out. But maybe I’ll hold onto the IEEE Softwares for another year…
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