Well-organized and touches on every important topic. Unfortunately the author offers very little help when he discusses architecture challenges that make C++ code messy in the first place (cross-cutting concerns, cyclic dependencies, observers). Without sufficiently deep explorations, this book doesn't present much value for an advanced reader. Slightly less importantly, the author's aversion to exceptions and eager use of dynamic methods are a little out of place in current style.
A book that starts out with a chapter on 'software rot' followed by a chapter on testing that hits it out of the park, covering unit test frameworks, how not to test and having tests implemented early, rather than skipped over like many projects. A third chapter deals with design principles, its short and well written.
A good chunk in the middle covers upgrading older C++ code to the newer versions with explanations of why its required along with how the new versions work.
It wraps up with chapters on object orientation, functional programming, test driven development and design patterns and idioms.
This book is a useful work for teaching us old C++ types to work with the newer versions as well as covering more advanced topics for novices. I need to see if there's a newer version, I'm tempted to buy it.