New in November - January

• Project management article: Prerequisite Confusion—Extra options undermine manageability.

• Programming article: Contiguous character strings in C++—Addressing a long-standing complaint.

• Cultural note: The End of Sexism in Publishing?

• Programming article: A Java abomination —obstacles to using standard library Dates.

• UPDATED: More new Language Curmudgeon articles.

Conrad Weisert's Book Draws Praise

Object-Oriented Computation in C++ and Java is available now direct from Dorset House Publishing and book stores. Filling a gap in the OOP literature by focusing on elementary numeric objects and the design patterns that support them, this book will be useful not only to experienced programmers but also as a textbook for a computationally-oriented course in object-oriented programming.

Check the reviews on online book sellers.

C# Implementations Are Easy!

Although the title of my new book mentions C++ and Java and the examples in the book use those languages, it's easy to implement them in C sharp. If you use C# for numeric computing you'll find Object-Oriented Computation indispensable. Be sure to use struct instead of class in order to get value semantics (like C++) instead of reference semantics (like Java).

—Conrad Weisert

New in August - October

• Organizational observation: How Do I Get to the Meeting?—Some professional organizations are environmentally hostile.

• Book review: More advice from Joel Spolsky&mdasha must for every programmer.

• Programming article: In Java Hardly Anything is an Object!—Is Java hostile to OOP?

• Programming article: Stamp Out Multiple Object Representations —another programming peeve.

• Presentation skills article: Stop Flailing in Public—an irritating trend in live demonstrations.

• Book review: Effective STL—Is this volume 3 from Scott Meyers?

• Book review: design patterns in Java by Allen Holub.