New in April - June

• Slow the Moon Down!—Monthly accounting cycles and monthly meetings are too often.

• The BOK Stops Here!—observations on so-called "bodies of knowledge"

• Error Severity Levels—rediscovering an old programming technique:

• Complexity Triumphs—What ever happened to ease of learning?

• The Irrational Unified Process—notes on a decade-old methodology. No, it's not object oriented.

• Who the Bell Tolls for—mea culpa for some obsolete language.

• Grade Inflation and Letter Grades—Does B represent poor performance?

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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.

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New in January - March

• Why Have Professional Presentations Gotten So Bad?—What ever happened to competent lecturers?

• Book review: Productivity Sand Traps & Tar Pits by Mike Walsh

• The Value of Education—Is it only for the money?

• Pushy Questionners Disrupt Presentations—Must we tolerate obnoxious interrupters?

• Remembering Margaret Butler—a pioneering computer scientist.