Free licensing of soft microprocessors lets designers easily modify FPGAs and gives greater visibility into architectures; explains implications of associated licensing models. Dr. Dobb's.

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

From the podium to the hallways, the 3rd annual Aspect-Oriented Software Development Conference, Lancaster, England, was filled with the energy of commercial adopters. Dr. Dobb's.

Al Williams takes a look at resource bundles for supporting multiple languages.

Looks at how lock-free programming avoids system failure by tolerating individual process failures.

Take the pure object orientation of Smalltalk, remove the quirky syntax and reliance on a workspace. Add the convenience and power of Perl, but without the special cases and magic conversions. Give it a clean syntax based partly on Eiffel, add a few c...

Andy Oram article discussing P3P as a social protocol, as well as his views of the motivations behind the protocol.

Describes how middleware is evolving to support distributed real-time and embedded systems. Focuses on real-time CORBA.

Shows C++ code examples that illustrate how to program the real-time CORBA priority mechanisms.

Describes real-time CORBA's support for thread pools and synchronizers.