Title: Other Periodicals

Sadly this magazine ceased publication recently. I think this is a great shame, as it was definitely one of my favourite reads. It covered many topics from user software to development tools, and in days of old, even hardware. I found the writers very readable, and the subject matter good.

However it is due for a relaunch by the current owners of the title. Francis

Otherwise know as the CUJ. This is a good magazine if you are really into C++ nitty gritty. Most of the articles are fairly leading edge, but cover topics that are applicable to the real world. If you want to stretch your C++ knowledge then this might do it.

This is what I call leading edge C++. I find the articles in here more on the edge of research and not quite applicable to my job. Expect the stuff in here to become commonplace in the future, but not right now.

Also now contains a substantial section on Patterns.

Also known as 'CACM'. Get this one by joining the Association of Computer Machinery. A good read about the industry and good programming articles. I like this one so far. Try looking at www.acm.org for more information.

A fine news-stand magazine. Covers many topics from applications to coding, in many languages. There is lots of good nitty gritty stuff in here for the techie.

As it says, for the embedded programmer. Not too heavy on articles, but some good ones crop up. Really only useful if you are an embedded programmer.

A British programmers magazine!. Good coverage of quite a few different topics. Quite a lot of PC database content, a little unix and some C/C++. Good to keep abreast of what is happening in many fields.

I've heard of good reports that have first appeared in this, but have never managed to obtain a copy.

An overview of the computer business. You get this when you become an associate member of the IEEE Computer Society. A reasonable read. Have a look on www.computer.org for more information about this and other IEEE magazines below.

I like this one. Nice articles on real world practices. Not all to my tastes, but some good book reviews, programming, management and work philosophy.

Subscription from the IEEE Computer Society. This is a small periodical that contains very academic papers. I've found few articles that appeal to me here. Most articles seem to centre around software testing and formal methods. I've just swapped my subscription for 'IEEE Micro'

If you want to see what is going on in the world of Microprocessors then this is the biz. Covers new chips and designs. Only problem is that this is one expensive magazine, and you get very little paper.

As you would expect, heavily based on MS software. Most content seems to be on Visual C/C++ and MFC classes. Probably essential if you are an MFC programmer.

I only have the online versions of this (thanks to an ACCU offer), but it seems to have a lot of good programming articles.