low K no more ..
i met Dr. Dobbs when i was in ninth standard in school library .. one could expect how much a school kid was paid those days. With Developer IQ i grew up with it, not because of it's quality to compare with Dr. Dobbs but because of it's simplicity and two free CD that included every opensource java softwares that you could imagine.If you could find issues back 2 years of Dr. Dobbs when it started covering eclipse and plugin frameworks, i personally think those were golden times of Dr. Dobbs. I still have photocopies of those issues .. i seriously could not afford to buy that magazine.
One more thing about Developer IQ and Dr.Dobbs. This forum is more of Developer IQ, if you could get it's print copy. I would say sun's forum could be compared to Dr. Dobbs.