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Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010)
- throwa356262 7mo agoDon't forget to donate to archive.org while at it. The amount of useful material they have gathered is impressive.
- damnitbuilds 7mo agoAnd if you're a tech billionaire, please fund offshore backups of archive.org !
- throwa356262 7mo agoWorking on it, only two more commas to go :) I wonder if r/datahorde folks can be of any help here.
- npongratz 7mo agoI believe you mean r/datahoarder: https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ r/datahorde is different, and a ghost town.
- throwa356262 7mo agoyeah, that's the correct sub. Thanks
- raybb 7mo agoMoney is great, and they're also looking for volunteers all the time to help out with Open Library. The website is constantly under attack from DDoS, and we're always improving, but it's a long road. I'm just a volunteer, but a very active one.
- throwa356262 7mo agoWhat kind of volunteering is needed?
- raybb 7mo agoJust posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47709466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47709466
- tmountain 7mo agoJeeze, what’s the motivation to DDoS a service like this?
- trinix912 7mo agoCould it just be insanely intense nonstop crawling? I've seen it on some other sites.
- raybb 7mo agoIt can be that but sometimes it's nonsense queries being spammed from many IP addresses too.
- YesThatTom2 7mo agoI will speculate the DDOS attacks are funded by companies and governments that benefit from not being held accountable for their past deeds. I suspect X, Google, China, PRNK, Hungary, etc
- mikestew 7mo agoMoney is great, and they're also looking for volunteers all the time to help out with Open Library. I made a good-faith effort at searching the site for anything requesting volunteer work, and came up empty. Got a pointer? What are they looking for?
- raybb 7mo ago
- niemandhier 7mo agoI miss dr dobb
- sumtechguy 7mo agodobbs and msdn were my reading while I was waiting on a 2 hour compile many times. then msdn went terrible, and dobbs out of business :(
- pjmlp 7mo agoSome interesting stuff you will get out of Dr. Dobbs articles, as someone that was an avid reader. - The Small C compiler set of articles, where you will get the sense not even K&R C was used outside UNIX for quite some time, only a common subset. - The toolbox articles creating a Turbo Vision like framework in Object Pascal - The evolution of Python and related adoption - Strange programing languages like Actor, C@+ (try to search this one nowadays), Sather, BETA - The fashionable compiler benchmarks that used to be quite common back in the day - The evolution of C and C++ at ISO, while their standards were being started - A more heterogenous way of software development, when it wasn't only UNIX clones and Windows.
- vidarh 7mo agoA lot of very accessible algorithm articles too. I still remember the article on ternary trees.
- raverbashing 7mo ago> C@+ (try to search this one nowadays) I think not even Wikipedia knows about this (at least with a quick search)
- pjmlp 7mo agoGot the name a bit off, see other HNers replies.
- andai 7mo agoCatplus? Edit: Yandex can search for it! But doesn't seem to find anything relevant. (It also hates such queries and will force you to wait 2 minutes for a captcha to load.. but you get the results after a long wait! As our forefathers once did!) I did find C@ and C@++ though. https://esolangs.org/wiki/C@%2B%2B https://esolangs.org/wiki/C@%2B%2B
- bayindirh 7mo ago'"C@+" programming language' query in Kagi returns a single hit from Esolang [0]. [0]: https://esolangs.org/wiki/C@%2B%2B https://esolangs.org/wiki/C@%2B%2B
- ForOldHack 7mo ago3, 5 and 6 are up. My copies of 1~4 were stolen. :( https://archive.org/search?query=Dr.+Dobb%27s+Developer+Library https://archive.org/search?query=Dr.+Dobb%27s+Developer+Libr... And the journals: https://archive.org/details/texts?tab=collection&query=Dr.+Dobb%27s&page=3 https://archive.org/details/texts?tab=collection&query=Dr.+D...
- asdefghyk 7mo agoLots of the old magazines have not been collected and or scanned yet ……
- myth_drannon 7mo agoA better link for Dr. Dobb's collection: https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal
- retro64 7mo agoInteresting - would have thought they all would be uploaded by now. I feel like I bought the set years ago when Dr Dobbs folded but I can't seem to dig them up. However I did find my Verity Stob archive CD :) (which looks like it might already be on the archive - I can't be sure as mine is still sealed in the shipping packaged, never opened it)
- cobbzilla 7mo agoA quite memorable article [1] described a “backwards” message-passing technique in C++ using operator overloading so you could do stuff like: obj<-method arg1 arg2; [1] https://jacobfilipp.com/DrDobbs/articles/DDJ/1996/9608/9608e/9608e.htm https://jacobfilipp.com/DrDobbs/articles/DDJ/1996/9608/9608e...
- supliminal 7mo agoWasn’t this an April 1st entry? :-)
- raverbashing 7mo agoI guess something like https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1642028/what-is-the-operator-in-c-c/67828001#67828001 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1642028/what-is-the-oper...
- zzrrt 7mo agoI skimmed the article and haven't gotten out the compiler or source files, but does anyone understand how arg1 and arg2 with space and no operator in between are syntactically valid C++, and what do they do?
- zzrrt 7mo agoAha, the syntax is actually `button <- setSize << 10 << 20;` according to DEMO.CPP in /1996/9608/dynacpp.zip of the ISO. So operator-() initializes the Message object, operator<<() stores the parameters into it, which is then passed to operator<() to invoke the function. I guess the HTML page was badly transcribed or failed to escape the characters.
- cobbzilla 7mo agoYes! The linked article didn’t capture all the symbols in the original DDJ article. There were in fact `<<` preceding each arg. The actual line was: obj<-method << arg1 << arg2 which requires overloading the less-than, unary negation, and the double-less-than operators.
- tuwtuwtuwtuw 7mo agoIs there any magazines like this left? When I was a kid, I used to buy these. I didn't even have a computer, I was just enjoying imagining what I could do if I had one. Didn't understand 10% or the content though.
- jhbadger 7mo agoI'd recommend Paged Out https://pagedout.institute/ https://pagedout.institute/ And PoCoGTFO https://alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/ https://alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/ These are free modern magazines that capture the feeling of joy of programming that Dobbs and BYTE used to have
- tartoran 7mo agoI really like Paged Out. It’s got quite a nice amalgam of topics, as well as the SciFi art illustrations.
- myth_drannon 7mo agoPaged Out has too much AI related articles.
- olvy0 7mo agoClosest would be the ACCU Overload journal, freely available here [0]. There'a also Visual studio Magazine but it's obviously Microsoft-centric [1]. Also CODE magazine [2] but it's more lightweight, feels more "commercial". [0] https://accu.org/journals/nonmembers/overload_issue_members/ https://accu.org/journals/nonmembers/overload_issue_members/ [1] https://visualstudiomagazine.com/home.aspx https://visualstudiomagazine.com/home.aspx [2] https://www.codemag.com/magazine/allissues https://www.codemag.com/magazine/allissues
- teunispeters 7mo agoI bought every issue I could find of this ....always so much inspiration!
- myth_drannon 7mo agoI also liked Borland's Turbo Technix - https://archive.org/details/texts?tab=collection&query=turbo+technix https://archive.org/details/texts?tab=collection&query=turbo...
- sooperserieous 7mo agoMany of us followed Jeff D to PC Techniques and Visual Developer - http://www.duntemann.com/vdmarchive.htm http://www.duntemann.com/vdmarchive.htm
- moochamerth 7mo agoThank you, that's quite the trip down the memory lane! I devoured Dr. Dobb's when I was a teenager! I ended up on Michael Swaine's Medium site [1], and then ordered his book: "Fire in the Valley" (2014) [2]. [1] https://medium.com/@michaelswaine https://medium.com/@michaelswaine [2] https://pragprog.com/titles/fsfire/fire-in-the-valley/ https://pragprog.com/titles/fsfire/fire-in-the-valley/
- mindcrime 7mo agoSince we're talking about archive.org stuff, if y'all will permit it, I'd like to call attention to this thread as well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47702136 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47702136 It looks like CiteseerX from PSU is now effectively offline and everything is redirecting to the Wayback Machine. But many of those links are not in the Wayback Machine. Hopefully there is - or can be - some focused effort to get that content transferred over, if the citeseerx site is really going away for good.
- kristianp 7mo agoAccording to this, Dr Dobbs was to stop new articles at the end of 2014: https://slashdot.org/story/211167 https://slashdot.org/story/211167 Before the internet it was a good way to have a picture of what was out there. I remember the magazines had a particular smell in early 90s. Like a sweet smell, different to other magazines. There was rarely an Mac content though, which seems shortsighted. Swaine started writing Mac articles at some point if I recall, but they weren't very technical, often about hypercard? I was reading this article from '91, the creator of Wizard C, Bob Jarvis criticised C++'s lack of modules, something it's getting around 35 years later. 91 was when Mode X graphics programming was introduced by Abrash in a series of articles.
- ralphc 7mo agoOther magazines mentioned but no love for Computer Language Magazine? It held its own with DDJ when it came to software and theoretical topics.
- kasajian 7mo agoContent should be in a github org.