Quality Matters on hiatus

Due to my current workload, I'm having to once again skip a publication deadline for my Quality Matters column (for ACCU's Overload magazine). As we've been halfway through the series on exceptions for some months, it's doubly vexing to me: the formulation of the arguments for my (slightly heretical) vision for exception use is half-complete; those users interested in hearing the third and fourth (of four) instalments may well have lost interest by the time the series is complete. The only good aspect is that I should have been able to fully employ all the principles and practices in version 1.10 of STLSoft by the time the material is presented in the magazine.

My current commercial engagement - as an expert witness in an IT fraud case - will be finished by Q3 2011, and after that I'll be taking a couple of months off, during which time I'll catch up on outstanding writing commitments, including Quality Matters and the long, long-delayed book Breaking Up The Monolith: Advanced C++ Design without Compromise.

Wish me luck!