Have a technical book you'd like to promote? An article, or blog post, that you feel might be of helpful to the CodeRanch community that you'd like to share?
You can!
CodeRanch is a site for the benefit of its members. So as a member of the community, CodeRanch wants to help you promote your useful stuff. Promoting your useful stuff is not only good for you, but it benefits everyone else in the CodeRanch community that finds your stuff useful.
SOME GUIDELINES
In order to be useful, your content should:
Be relevant to programming or computing.Be technically accurate and complete.Be in English (just like CodeRanch posts)
If you want to post something useful on CodeRanch itself, you can do so in the Blog Around the Campfire forum. You can also post links to your own blog in that forum, or, when relevant, as an answer to someone's technical question.
If you are going to post a link to your stuff somewhere other than CodeRanch, please be sure to describe what you are linking to and why someone would want to click the link.
Here's how to do it wrong when posting a reply to someone's question:
The wrong way wrote:Hey, I wrote about that in my blog at http://attention-grabber.com/look-at-me.html
Here's one way to do it right:
The right way wrote:Hey, I wrote an article on data hiding via closures at http://useful-content.com/data-hiding.html.
In the article, I describe how closures can be used to hide data from outer scopes, so that they don't collide with other variables in other scopes.
Notice the difference?
The first example in indistinguishable from spam. It doesn't tell anyone what the link is about, and all it does is to drive traffic away from CodeRanch. It's not what a good community member should do.
The second example has two important differences:
It states what the link is about in close proximity to the link (good for searching).It follows up with a summary that informs the reader whether the content might be useful or not.
NOT A LICENSE TO SPAM
If your post:
can be interpreted as spamreally is spamis not deemed to be offered in the spirit of being part of the CodeRanch communitydoesn't meet the posting guidelines
it will be subject to removal as spam.
BOOKS
We especially encourage authors to promote their technical books. See this topic for an example of what we'd like to see.
Some things we like to see on a book's topic post:
An image of the book's cover
Author's photo
Any other images appropriate for the book including:
The back coverSample figures or diagrams from the book
Links:
Link to publisher's pageLink to Amazon page (for multiple countries when appropriate)Link to free sample chapters, if anyLink to downloadable source code, if anyLink to the Author's bioLink to publisher's forum, if anyLink to the book's CodeRanch review, if anyLink to the Author's blog, if anyany other appropriate links
The book's Table of Contents
Any other appropriate information
WHERE TO POST
BLOGS
The proper place to post information about blogs posts in in the
"Blog Around the Campfire"forum.
If you have a blog post that directly answers someone's question on CodeRanch, you can post about in the technical forums. If you do so, the information in the post must contribute to the answer to the specific question, and without the need to visit the remote site. If members wish to discover more information about your answer, they can visit your link.
Posts that do not meet these guidelines will be subject to removal, or probation (which give you an opportunity to edit your pst before it gets published).
BOOKS, SOFTWARE AND OTHER
For promoting books, software, or other types of posts, please post in the
Blatant Advertising forum.
Note that if staff finds your post particularly helpful, they have the option of moving or copying the post to one of the technical forums.
