Overload 25 Editorial - Housekeeping
Treats
We’ve got such a vast array of treats for you this issue that I’ve been squeezed off my usual page. Amongst the glittering delights are:
· The Colour Cover.
· Kevlin’s revelations whilst skip diving over the Christmas holidays.
· An article from Bjarne Stroustrup on C++2000 features.
· And, the unveiling of the ACCU Overload web pages.
Web Pages
The Overload web pages are now online and available for your enjoyment. Slightly sparse, but we hope to expand its breadth as each issue is published. At present there’s a bibliography of articles from past issues, and we’ll be posting some complete issues, articles, and source code in the future.
If you’re interested in being the Overload web-meister then please contact us. It’d be a great excuse to learn about web publishing technologies.
Submissions
As ever, we are always looking for contributions from new authors, and are particularly interested in shorter pieces of work. With many 4 and 5 page articles it becomes tricky getting just the right number of pages. The occasional one or two page text really helps.
We’d be particularly interested to hear of your experiences deploying patterns in your current project. Have you found the Design Patterns book useful?
Ray Hall would like to hear from you if you are interested in reviewing books. Overload book reviews tend to have more depth than their C-Vu counterparts, and we’d like to keep that differentiation. In fact, a survey of books covering a single topic would be of interest to many. Perhaps Patterns, yet again, or the under explored STL.
John Merrells
April 1998