Presents an introduction to garbage collection, presenting the subject in enough detail to show the various tradeoffs and advantages between various techniques and what goes on under the hood in a typical garbage collector.

This article looks at XML Data Binding at a new alternative to automate much of the task of processing XML data by presenting the information stored in XML as a statically-typed, vocabulary-specific object model. (Boris Kolpackov)

This article explores the strengths of C++, and how to exploit them in projects.

List of C++ source code optimizations that can give big returns, especially when used in tight loops. By Andrew S. Winter.

Takes a look at Blitz++, MTL (Matrix Template Library), ACE, Loki and Boost.

A Critique of C++ and Programming and Language Trends of the 1990s.

Explains why constant objects are not as useful as some people would like them to be.

Describes a set of techniques and tools (an environment) facilitating prototyping of, providing general mechanisms for, object-oriented architectures based on the idea of assertion checking and Design by Contract (DbC) in C++.

Describes creating AVI/WMV/QuickTime movies from sequences of bitmaps with source code examples.

Presents a solution that is easily extensible and maintainable; what's more, it is particularly well suited to creating objects from XML data.