''Overload'' is a bi-monthly professional

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published by ACCU, that was established in 1993 and is edited by Frances Buontempo. It aims to "publish a high standard of articles about all aspects of

software development Software development is the process of conceiving, specifying, designing, programming, documenting, testing, and bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining applications, frameworks, or other software components. Software development invol ...

".The ACCU Journals
/ref> All issues of ''Overload'', starting from August 1998, are available online.Online archive
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History

''Overload'' was started in 1993 as a magazine of the "Turbo C++ SIG"."A History Lesson", Overload #10, October 95
/ref> By 1994, it had become a "journal of C++ SIG", with an appropriate change in scope. At that time there were several magazines with similar scope, including ''

C/C++ Users Journal ''C/C++ Users Journal'' was a computer magazine dedicated to the C and C++ programming languages published in the United States from 1985 to 2006. It was one of the last printed magazines to cover specifically this topic (apart from ACCU's journ ...

C++ Report ''C++ Report'' was a bi-monthly professional computer magazine published by SIGS Publications Group. It was edited by Robert Murray, Stanley B. Lippman, Douglas C. Schmidt, Brad Appleton, Robert Cecil Martin, and Herb Sutter and aimed to cover var ...

'', and to a lesser extent, ''

Dr. Dobb's Journal ''Dr. Dobb's Journal'' (''DDJ'') was a monthly magazine published in the United States by UBM Technology Group, part of UBM plc, UBM. It covered topics aimed at computer programmers. When launched in 1976, DDJ was the first regular periodical focu ...

''. The scope of ''Overload'' continued to be broadenedAlan Grifiths, Editorial, Overload #55, June 2003
/ref> and in 2000 the magazine was relabeled from "journal of C++ SIG" to "journal of ACCU".Alan Griffiths, A Word from the C++ SIG Organiser, Overload #36, March 2000
/ref> About the same time, a board of "readers" was established, to assist authors with improving their articles. Over time, many competing publications have been discontinued (''C++ Report'' has been discontinued in 2002, ''C/C++ Users Journal'' in 2006, ''Dr Dobbs Journal'' in 2009),Dr. Dobb's Journal: A Pocketful of Change
/ref> and by 2010 ''Overload'' has become the only magazine to cover this area, which has attracted articles of notable writers such as former contributing editor of ''C/C++ Users Journal''

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Matthew Wilson, An Introduction to Fast Format (Part 1): The State of the Art, Overload, #89, February 2009
/ref> and creator of C++

Bjarne Stroustrup Bjarne Stroustrup (; ; born 30 December 1950) is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the invention and development of the C++ programming language. As of July 2022, Stroustrup is a professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. ...

.Bjarne Stroustrup, No 'Concepts' in C++0x, Overload, #92, August 2009
/ref> Since its establishment, the scope of the magazine has evolved from issues specific to C/

C++ C++ (pronounced "C plus plus") is a high-level general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup as an extension of the C programming language, or "C with Classes". The language has expanded significan ...

into all aspects of software development, with a particular emphasis on

Agile software development In software development, agile (sometimes written Agile) practices include requirements discovery and solutions improvement through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams with their customer(s)/ end user(s), ad ...

.Giovanni Asproni. How to shoot yourself in the foot in an agile way, Overload #71, February 2006
/ref>Allan Kelly. Blue-White-Red, an example agile process, Overload #81, October 2007
/ref> In 2005 ''Overload'' published
Quality Manifesto
by

Tom Gilb Tom Gilb (full name "Thomas Steven Gilb", born 1940) is an American systems engineer, consultant, and author, known for the development of software metrics, software inspection, and evolutionary processes. Biography Tom Gilb was born in 1940 i ...

Notable contributors

* David Abrahams *

* David H. Bailey *

Kevlin Henney Kevlin Henney is an English author, presenter, and consultant on software development. He has written on the subject of computer programming and development practice for many magazines and sites, including ''Better Software'', ''The Register'', ' ...

Nicolai Josuttis Nicolai may refer to: * Nicolai (given name) people with the forename ''Nicolai'' * Nicolai (surname) people with the surname ''Nicolai'' * Nicolai (crater), a crater on the Moon See also * Niccolai, a surname * Nicolae (disambiguation) * Nicol ...

Scott Meyers Scott Douglas Meyers (born April 9, 1959) is an American author and software consultant, specializing in the C++ computer programming language. He is known for his ''Effective C++'' book series. During his career, he was a frequent speaker at con ...

Editors

* Frances Buontempo (2012–present) * Ric Parkin (2008–2012) * Alan Griffiths (2003–2008) * John Merrels (1998–2003) * Sean A. Corfield (1995–1997) * Mike Toms (1993–1994)

References

External links

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Bibliography of Overload articles
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