Dr. Dobb's Blogs

When do i clean my code?

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:45:52 -0500

How To Select Trainees

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:51:13 -0500

Technical Job Interviews

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:36:04 -0500

Timers/timeouts in multi-threaded event-loops

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:36:54 -0500

C vs C++

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:28:35 -0500

Mixing ActiveX with Java

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:00:00 -0500

Al Williams, a longtime Dobb's contributor and our resident tinkerer, has been making waves recently with his one-instruction CPU (you can click here to watch a video demo). Back in 2004, he was busy playing with robots and servos, and in this article from DDJ, he shows you how to use JACOB (a library for running Java code under Windows) to connect with ActiveX objects for robotic control.

Great Jobs at CISCO

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:50:04 -0500

OK Labs, ST-Ericsson, and the Mobile/Wireless Ecosystem

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:41:17 -0500

Thinking Forth

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0500

A New Kind of Science and Wolfram's Computational Equivalence

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:00:00 -0400

With the official launch of Wolfram|Alpha earlier this year, and the recent release of the Wolfram|Alpha Webservice API, I got to thinking about Stephen Wolfram and his contributions to computing. These classic 2002 entries from Michael Swaine's long-running Programming Paradigms column in DDJ examine Wolfram's theories as laid out in his seminal book, A New Kind of Science.

C++ Ninjas Needed in Santa Clara, California

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:43:23 -0400

The Concurrency Revolution

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:00:00 -0400

Herb Sutter is a bestselling author and consultant on software development topics, and a software architect at Microsoft. He's also Dr. Dobb's resident expert on Effective Concurrency (the subject of his monthly column in Dr. Dobb's Digest). For those of you who haven't been paying attention to developments on the Dr. Dobb's Go-Parallel site, "The Concurrency Revolution" is in full swing. Let's take a look back to 2005, when Herb Sutter first warned of the now and future revolution and what it means for developers.

Fighting Fragmentation with Mobile Virtualization

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:12:41 -0400

Automated Testing & Windows CE

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:00:00 -0400

Windows CE is a Microsoft operating system developed for devices that have minimal storage, such as mobile devices and embedded systems. In this DDJ article from 2002, Tom Pugh used third party tools to test Windows CE systems.

Insights into Router Design: Implementation of Networking Protocols

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:43:33 -0400

Insights into Router Design: Unit Testing of Networking Protocols

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:03:31 -0400

Insights and Innovations in Networking

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:25:24 -0400

Six Mobile Innovations That (Would) Change Your Life

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:00:00 -0400

In David Haskin's 2006 missive for DDJ , the author tried to pinpoint some mobile innovations then on the horizon and how they would impact your life. Let's take a look at how his predictions panned out.

reddit threads community

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:05:43 -0400

TEST APP DEV

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:00:00 -0400

C++ Team being built in Santa Clara - contact Brent at breroger@cisco.com if interested

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:43:12 -0400

Beyond HTML: An Interview with the Creator of SGML

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:00:00 -0400

scattering stones

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:37:17 -0400

boost::asio concurrency

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:56:32 -0400

hello

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:20:27 -0400