Dr. Dobb’s Journal (articles from 1988 – 2009)

What is this?

This is content from the DDJ Developer Library DVD-ROM 6 that was published in 2010. Publications included:

• Dr. Dobb’s Journal (Jan 1988 – Dec 2009)
  • Bonus: articles published on the Dr. Dobbs website in 2008
• C/C++ Users Journal (Jan 1990 – Feb 2006)
• SysAdmin (Jan 1992 – Aug 2007)
• The Perl Journal🐪 (Spring 1996 – Apr 2005)
  

There are articles are in HTML format, along with source code, podcasts and videos.

Basic search in articles

Publication:

Dr. Dobb’s Journal C/C++ Users Journal SysAdmin The Perl Journal

Search term: Search

If you can’t find what you need: do a CTRL-F through this list of article summaries, or you can try the classic computer journal search engine at http://empichon72.free.fr/bs3/revues/index.php#

Why post Dr. Dobb’s articles here?

The Dr. Dobb’s website is in a death spiral. Old articles are available, but they’re hard to find and impossible to page through. As of January 2024, every click is met with an “Oops, something has gone wrong.” error. The site will be going down soon.

The best place to find Dr. Dobb’s classic articles is through the Internet Archive. They have “CD Release 5” from 1997 (in a proprietary HyperReader! format, not very useful), DVD release 5 and this DVD-ROM 6. Both of the DVD releases have articles in HTML format, which are easy to share on the web.

Very very few people host these valuable DVD. I found literally 1. (Sorry, Wouter! I recursively wgetted your site and didn’t even get the .htm files…)

You can download the .iso file for Dr. Dobb’s DVD 6 from the Web Archive or from my website here. Go ahead and re-host these articles. You’ll help preserve a classic.