As the Web becomes truly world wide, site developers will need to address multilingual and cross-cultural issues. Howard sorts out the concepts of internationalization and localization, and explains how they relate to your company's future.
AOP was a move away from explicit metaprogramming to a direct semantics for coding crosscutting concerns. But metaprogramming can still be useful, if kept under control. Dr. Dobb's.
When dealing with realtime systems, IPC overhead becomes important; examines two of the best IPC mechanisms available for Linux: FIFO, shared memory. [Dr. Dobb's Journal]