Return To FAQ Return To Main IndexFirst of all, if you are reading this page with a view to submitting an essay I thank you, it is only by writing and sharing knowledge that many more generations of reverse engineers can learn and progress. I'm reluctant to make lots of rules because this would tend to deter submissions, however as with any collective project there have to be some brief guidelines. I won't get upset or not publish your essay if you don't follow these but if you would at least give them some consideration I would be most grateful.
1. My preferred formats for submission are .doc (MS Word), .txt (NotePad text) or any supported WordPad format. Use these and you'll get published and save me lots of work. I'm also very keen on compact HTML, so if you can avoid needless W32Dasm listings (MOV EAX, 1 instead of MOV EAX, 00000001) I'd appreciate that too. If you want your own tutorial 'look' use a browser or any other dedicated HTML editing program, I do however reserve the right to change your layout although if you make it awkward enough I probably won't :-).
2. I will try to correct any spelling or grammatical errors I can see, this may result in your tutorial being anglicised (apologies in advance). Please remember that your favourite debugger is "SoftICE" and on the same tack here are some of the cracker abbreviations / habits I dislike - "cuz", "sice", "u", "mY cRacKinG tUtE", "elite colours", excessive bold, italics and underlining, "BIG text MiXed".
3. Essay style and flow is left completely to you, diversity and turn of phrase makes life interesting (theres far too much of my dulcit tones on this site already for anyones good :-) ), in your tutorial please try and explain your reasoning and thought processes, please don't use bad language or diss particular groups, (no-one has done this yet I am pleased to say). Very important, please place a working e-mail address on your tutorials so that readers can contact you.
4. Although you might like to greet hundreds of people at the end of your tutorial, I would prefer it if you could keep these to a respectable minimum (say 10-15 names or so). If you do exceed this, I'll make a judgement, if your tutorial was of outstanding learning quality your list of excessive greets will probably escape unscathed :-).
5. Above all, just use some basuc common sense, if your a reverse engineer you probably have done already and don't need to read this patronising piece of advice :-).
Now send me your essays / keygen sources (assuming you can live with my pedantic ways).
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