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Common Knowledge: Fungible Control Structures
Steve presents some effective but unorthodox methods for controlling flow of execution - including one that looks downright weird.
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Conversations: Virtually Yours
A good class designer can communicate how she intends a class to be used-often without writing a single comment-through intelligent use of access modifiers and virtual functions. But there's more: a good class designer will also make virtual functions private whenever design considerations allow it. If you find this guideline surprising, read on to learn the rationale.
Generic: Change the Way You Write Exception-Safe Code — Forever
Let's face it: Writing exception-safe code is hard. But it just got a lot easier with this amazing template. - C/C++
How can you establish a network connection using Java? 
How can you establish a network connection using Java? Mike shows how. - JVM Languages
Reigning in C++ Test Harnesses
The Significance of .NET
Microsoft's latest offers an unprecedented level of language interoperability for Web-based applications.
Secure Web-Based Licensing
If you want to protect your software from misuse, you have to outsmart potential thieves and still not annoy your legitimate customers. This is not as easy as you might at first think.
From Mechanism to Method: Function Follows Form
Of all the features of C++ that can affect source code readability, operator overloading is one of the most powerful. Operator overloading can render otherwise well-written code obscure; on the other hand, it makes possible many important idioms - smart pointers, function objects, and iterators, to name a few. Kevlin Henney shows us another good application of operator overloading: a remember_function that bundles a target object together with a member function pointer for later callback
Book Review: Exceptional C++
We reviewed Exceptional C++ in the February 2000 issue of CUJ. Now Stan Lippman gives us a second look at this very important book. Stan is a former editor of C++ Report magazine, a C++ language expert, and a respected C++ author, whose books include Inside the C++ Object Model and C++ Primer, Third Edition (co-authored with Jose Lajoie).
