Everyone,
I have received quite a bit of positive feedback on the idea of a MySQL
e-zine and I am moving forward. I would like to have the first issue
out by the 1st of June. I have decided to have a theme of the first
issue on security? Why? Well, to be honest, it will any easier topic
to start with. And second, unfortunately, I think security is a
neglected aspect of many MySQL installations.
Here is where the community comes in. I am looking for some articles.
Article length will be around 550 words for a single page. An article
can be up to 3 pages long. If you need to include graphics that will
need to lower the word count of course. Please submit plain text and
preferably png graphics although I can manage pretty much any graphic
type if necessary. It would be best if you submitted an abstract of
sorts - just a paragraph or two about what you want to write about.
That way we can see if it will work before you write out the full length
article.
Some ideas for article topics:
User account management for security
Server hardening (OS and mysql server)
SQL Injection attacks and coding to prevent them.
Other non-security article ideas will certainly be considered as every
article will not be about security. If a an article idea is of good
quality and it won't fit in the first issue than it certainly be used
for the fall issue.
Unfortunately there is no way I can pay for articles right now. Down
the road I would like to get some advertisers /sponsors and use that to
pay for articles. Just remember that this a way that you can give back
to the community.
Thanks,
Keith
B. Keith Murphy wrote:
Hey everyone,
I have been considering putting together a e-zine for MySQL as my way
to give back to the community. I was curious as to what type of
interest there would be in this. I am thinking something quarterly to
start with and probably 15 - 20 pages. Nothing huge. Topics would
vary from everything like standard DBA stuff like backups,
replication, system architecture and such to stuff for the developers
out there..php, perl, python whatever. My background is more of a DBA
so I would definitely need some input/articles for the developer side
of things.
It is just funny that in this day and age there is no magazines
specifically for MySQL. I even saw a php magazine at the bookstore
the other day!
I can do the layout in QuarkXpress and generate pdfs that I can host
on my website.
Any thoughts? Any desires to contribute?
Thanks,
Keith
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