53)* What relevant journals are available?

[Last modified: Sept 95]

Answer: There are several important periodicals:
(updated Sept. 95)
In June, 1995, Steve Mikes announced a new monthly periodical called "The X
Advisor" which appears both in magazine format and on-line via the Web. The
subtitle from the Web page calls this "The Definitive Journal For X Window
System Professionals (X11, Motif, Common Desktop Environment and Related GUI
Technologies)."  The first issue contains about 6 features, 20 columns, and 15
departments.  You may subscribe to either format from the WWW pages. See these
URLs:

    http://landru.unx.com/
    http://landru.unx.com/DD/advisor/index.shtml (especially)
    http://landru.unx.com/DD/docs/subscribe.shtml (subscriptions)
    http://landru.unx.com/DD/txaCurrent.shtml (current issue)


(updated Sept. 95)
"The X Journal" is published bimonthly by SIGS Publications, 212-274-0640.
Editorial information: editors%topgun@uunet.uu.net, editors@unx.com. The URL
is:

    http://www.sigs.com/publications/txjr/txjrmain.html
    1-800-361-1279
    615-370-4845 (fax)
    subscriptions@sigs.com

SIGS Publications also has a number of magazines concerning C++ and object
oriented programming:

    http://www.sigs.com/publications/sigspubs.html


"The X Resource: A Practical Journal of the X Window System" is published
quarterly by O'Reilly and Associates, 800-998-9938.  Editorial information:
Paula Ferguson (paula@ora.com).  In addition to the valuable articles which
appear in regular issues, the January issue of each year (issues 1, 5, 9, 13,
etc.) contains the proceedings of the Annual X Technical Conference (from
1992, 1993, 1994, and 1995, respectively) sponsored by the X Consortium.  An
on-line Table of Contents per issue can be accessed via gopher.  Telnet to
gopher.ora.com, login as "gopher", select "Detailed Product Descriptions", and
then "X Resource". Alternatively, the WWW URL is:

    gopher://gopher.ora.com/11/descriptions/xres/

Source code examples published in "The X Resource" appear organized by issue
in the directory:

    ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/examples/xresource/