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April's Overload Journal has been published. (7.04.18)
The April 2018 ACCU Overload journal has been published and should arrive at members' addresses in the next few days. Overload 144 and previous issues of Overload can be accessed in Overload Online.
March's C Vu Journal has been published. (23.03.18)
The March 2018 ACCU C Vu journal has been published and should arrive at members' addresses in the next few days. C Vu 30-1 and previous issues of C Vu can be accessed via Journals menu (ACCU members only).
2018 European LLVM Developers Meeting (26.02.18)
The 2018 European LLVM Developers Meeting will be held at the Bristol Marriott Hotel City Centre, Bristol, UK, April 16 and 17, 2018.

The meeting serves as a forum for LLVM, Clang, LLDB and other LLVM project developers and users to get acquainted, learn how LLVM is used, and exchange ideas about LLVM and its (potential) applications. The conference will be two full days that include technical talks, BoFs, hacker’s lab, tutorials, a poster session and a reception.

For more information, go to the conference website.

Thanks to the conference organizers for their mention of the 2018 ACCU conference occurring the previous week.
February's Overload Journal has been published. (9.02.18)
The February 2018 ACCU Overload journal has been published and should arrive at members' addresses in the next few days. Overload 143 and previous issues of Overload can be accessed in Overload Online.
January's C Vu Journal has been published. (7.01.18)
The January 2018 ACCU C Vu journal has been published and should arrive at members' addresses in the next few days. C Vu 29-6 and previous issues of C Vu can be accessed via Journals menu (ACCU members only).

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Overload 144 · April 2018 (PDF)

Deeds not words.
Women’s suffrage used the motto “Deeds not Words". Frances Buontempo applies this to programming.
No News is Good News.
Using ‘new’ without care can be slow. Paul Floyd uses Godbolt’s compiler explorer to see what happens when you do.
Monitoring: Turning Noise into Signal.
Creating useful logging is a constant challenge. Chris Oldwood shows us how structured logging helps.
The Interface to Component Pattern and DynaMix.
Dynamic Polymorphism is hard in C++. Borislav Stanimirov demonstrates how the DynaMix library helps.
5 Reasons NOT to Use std::ostream for Human-Readable Output.
C++’s ostream can be hard to use. Sergey Ignatchenko suggests we use the {fmt} library instead.
Practical Cryptographical Theory for Programmers.
Cryptography is a daunting subject. Deák Ferenc helps you get started.
Ex Hackina.
Machine Learning and AI are popular at the moment. Teedy Deigh takes the Turing test.