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2006 Dr. Dobb's Journal Excellence in Programming Award
Jonathan Erickson
Moving computer security to the front lines of software development is just one reason Bruce Schneier is the recipient of this year's Excellence in Programming Award.

An Algorithm for Compressing Space and Time
Tomas G. Rokicki
Making a slow program fast can lead to both joy and frustration. But sometimes a new approach yields amazing improvements.

Dependency Management
John Graham-Cumming
John explores the irony of Make.

Consuming .NET Web Services in Oracle JDeveloper
Max I. Fomitchev
Max uses Oracle JDeveloper 10.1.2 to examine the problems you must overcome when consuming ATL/.NET web services in Java clients that rely on Apache SOAP.

Monitoring the Java Virtual Machine
Paul Tremblett
Java Management Extensions (JMX) provide tools for monitoring and managing applications and the resources they use.

Managed C++ and the Side-by-Side Cache
Richard Grimes
The Visual Studio installer places Visual Studio shared libraries in a location called the "side-by-side cache." Here's what you need to know to leverage it.

Accelerating Compute Intensive Functions Using C
Joe Hanson
Joe examines how you accelerate application processing using a software-configurable architecture to achieve hardware-accelerated performance in C.

Overloading and Overloading
Pete Becker
Operator overloading may be syntactic sugar, but there are a lot of things that don't taste very good without sugar.

Tight Code
Ed Nisley
Ed builds an ISBN bar-code scanner.

Framework Design Guidelines
Peter N. Roth
Peter reviews Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams.

Comings and Goings
Jonathan Erickson
Columns come, and columns go.

Of Interest
April 2006 Of Interest.

Pragmatic Exceptions
Benjamin Booth
Tip #8: Run from Runtime Exceptions (and Errors)