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On this site is archived all the content from Dr. Dobb's that was published on the Web through December 31, 2014.

2014 Developer Salary Survey

Tue, 13 May 2014 14:39:00 -0400

Our survey of more than 2,200 U.S. developers shows salaries in a well-paid field are nudging up as the economy picks up steam.

Engineering Managers Should Code 30% of Their Time

Tue, 07 Jan 2014 07:31:00 -0500

Lose contact with the code, and you lose the connection to your team and the project. How then to make the time to manage and code? The cofounder of MongoDB explains his approach.

2013 Developer Salary Survey

Tue, 05 Nov 2013 13:35:00 -0500

Our survey of more than 3,000 developers and managers shows that after several years of being flat, salaries are on the rise once again

Who Are Software Developers?

Tue, 01 Oct 2013 07:24:00 -0400

Ten years of surveys show an influx of younger developers, more women, and personality profiles at odds with traditional stereotypes.

Software Engineers All!

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:14:00 -0400

Faking a CS degree will get you fired. Falsely claiming to be a software engineer will get you — wait, is that even possible?

The Humble Boolean Deserves Help

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:03:00 -0400

The boolean data type rarely gets the attention it merits. As a result, it's stuck in a world of exactly two values, with little margin for safety.

It's the User

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:33:00 -0500

Historically speaking, the most profound change in the way we build software today is in how we care for the user.

IDEs Are Dead. Long Live the IDE!

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:45:00 -0500

How will developers' favorite working environments evolve in a cloud-based, post-PC world?

The Best of 2011

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:17:00 -0500

The most popular articles of last year from Dr. Dobb's, plus some additional pieces picked out for your thoughtful consideration by our staff

[Dude|Sir], That's Not Programming

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:53:00 -0400

The art of programming: easy to enter, but hard to master.

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:18:00 -0400

The next six months are full of excellent technical conferences. Which ones are must-attends and which are junkets?

Interview with Ken Thompson

Wed, 18 May 2011 16:58:00 -0400

The creator of UNIX discusses writing UNIX, the Go language, and collaborating with Dennis Ritchie

Designing for Reliability

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:11:15 -0400

Whether you are designing a data center or a manned space tourism vehicle, you will probably design in redundancy to ensure reliability

Pragmatic Development

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:09:00 -0400

A carefully selected set of practices that match an IT organization's needs is better than using one methodology exclusively

This Week's Developer Reading List

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:05:00 -0400

Eloquent Ruby, Agile Rails, ASP.NET 4 Web Programming with VB 2010, and cramming for the CISSP

Agile at 10: What We Believe (Scott Ambler)

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:46:00 -0400

A Non-Update to the Agile Manifesto

Parallel Merge Sort

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:19:00 -0400

Improving the algorithm via performance measurement

Keep Agile Going

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 05:30:00 -0400

Jim Highsmith, one of the signers of the Agile Manifesto, discusses what Agile needs to do to keep going

April 1 and the Devil Speaks

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:18:00 -0400

Sharing some humor from undeniably the greatest wit in the history of computing: Stan Kelly-Bootle

Getting Started with The Cloud: The Ecosystem

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:05:00 -0400

The first in a series of hands-on articles by Allen Holub about programming for the public cloud

Approximate String Matches and Dynamic Problems

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:00:00 -0500

Re-examining two classic algorithms as puzzles

Agile on a Global Scale

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:22:00 -0500

Educational experiment tries to determine whether agile practices can work for globally distributed teams

Certified ScrumMaster Examined

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:44:00 -0500

Taking certain "certification" to task

Hypothesis-Driven Development

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:09:00 -0500

Can operating like a startup improve your development efforts?