Login walls blow - but not having them is even worse
They're designed to make sure you are who you are - and that's good.
DZone has these reference cards for download now. They're pretty useful, short PDFs that give you enough reference material for something that you can zero in on the information rather than rely on a book or javadocs.
But in order to download them, you need to register. On "jQuery Selector RefCardz," commenters are complaining about the registration, which prevents the use of spam-blocked or anonymous remailers.
Cry me a river, folks.
I understand that you don't want to be exposed to marketing spam, even if it's not spam in the traditional sense as I think about it. The stuff you get tends to be "Hey, DZone has posted this!" or "Sponsor X wanted to tell you Y!" -- often based on the fact that you were interested in the material that required registration in the first place, so your interest more or less flagged you as a valid target for that stuff.
Look, you wanted the data; you are interested. That's not an invalid use of information.
It's important to realise that demographic data is important to sites that inform you. If they don't know who you are, they have to guess. if they have to guess, they're going to guess wrong, and in addition to that, they're going to guess where the money is - in other words, you'll see them flounder about trying to help an audience they can't identify.
If I was going to flounder about to an unknown audience, I'd start catering to the audience that has the most money to spend - i.e., C-level types.
Why? Because they have money; I can generally identify their needs; it pays off.
So where does that leave the average programmer? Screwed, all because he's not interested in receiving material that he's already said he's interested in.
Sure, it's a pain to get extra email. I get 7000 spam email a day. I know what it's like -- but I have these neato spam filters that get trained, so I see less of it than I could... and I deal with it.
You should too.
But in order to download them, you need to register. On "jQuery Selector RefCardz," commenters are complaining about the registration, which prevents the use of spam-blocked or anonymous remailers.
Cry me a river, folks.
I understand that you don't want to be exposed to marketing spam, even if it's not spam in the traditional sense as I think about it. The stuff you get tends to be "Hey, DZone has posted this!" or "Sponsor X wanted to tell you Y!" -- often based on the fact that you were interested in the material that required registration in the first place, so your interest more or less flagged you as a valid target for that stuff.
Look, you wanted the data; you are interested. That's not an invalid use of information.
It's important to realise that demographic data is important to sites that inform you. If they don't know who you are, they have to guess. if they have to guess, they're going to guess wrong, and in addition to that, they're going to guess where the money is - in other words, you'll see them flounder about trying to help an audience they can't identify.
If I was going to flounder about to an unknown audience, I'd start catering to the audience that has the most money to spend - i.e., C-level types.
Why? Because they have money; I can generally identify their needs; it pays off.
So where does that leave the average programmer? Screwed, all because he's not interested in receiving material that he's already said he's interested in.
Sure, it's a pain to get extra email. I get 7000 spam email a day. I know what it's like -- but I have these neato spam filters that get trained, so I see less of it than I could... and I deal with it.
You should too.