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Lock-Free Code: A False Sense of Security
Writing lock-free code can confound anyone—even expert programmers, as Herb shows this month. - C/C++
Verity Stob
Back in the day, Dr. Dobb's Journal ran a humorous column written by a programmer in the United Kingdom under the pseudonym Verity Stob. In this installment from 2002, Verity took aim at critics of Microsoft's .NET and its treatment of C++.
- JVM LanguagesThe Architect's Role
David Kranz talks about the architect's role in the world of RIA development. - Design
Lock-Free Queues 
One thread can write and another read—at the same time! - Parallel
Maximize Locality, Minimize Contention
Want to kill your parallel application's scalability? Easy: Just add a dash of contention. - Parallel
Application-Level Abstractions for Lock-Free Data Sharing
No one ever said that programming for concurrency would be easy - C/C++
Implementing Audio CAPTCHA 
David uses sound to make CAPTCHA an equal opportunity security device. - Web Development
Understanding task and data parallelism
Intel director James Reinders explains the difference between task and data parallelism, and how there is a way around the limits imposed by Amdahl's Law...
Are multicore processors here to stay?
Intel director James Reinders looks at the power, memory and instruction-level parallelism walls that are forcing the move to multicore processors, and explains why sometimes it makes sense to underclock, not overclock...
Dr. Dobb's Agile Newsletter 9/07
Do traditional approaches to modeling involve risks? - Design