ANTLR and JavaCC Parser Generators
The pros and cons of both ANTLR and JavaCC when parsing, small to medium size pieces of code as is often the case with, domain specific languages.
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Security Misnomers
In this article I’m not going to talk about IT security, instead I’m going to talk about the fallacies of security in our everyday lives in the real world.
Configuring Tomcat 7 Single Sign-on with SPNEGO (Kerberos & LDAP) Part 2
In this recipe you will see how to configure authentication cross forest and how you might implement cross forest authorization.
Programming Language Peculiarities: Java WAT!
I program in Java pretty much every day or at least every week day. Yet I could think of very few peculiarities.
Configuring Tomcat Single Sign-on with SPNEGO (Kerberos & LDAP)
So what is SPNEGO? SPNEGO stands for Simple and Protected GSSAPI Negotiation Mechanism (SPNEGO). It is a mechanism by which an authenticating body negotiates with the authenticator what security protocol to use, for example Kerberos, NTLM, Digest or Basic
Programming Language Peculiarities: JavaScript WAT!
Last week I wrote about some of the strange statements that are considered syntactically correct in Ruby. This week I am going to write about function scoping peculiarities with JavaScript. Firstly there are a number of ways you can define functions in JavaScript
How Is Learning a Human Language Like Learning a Computer Language
As programmers we get used to moving from one programming language to another, among language families this is relatively simple. When I refer to programming language families, for the purpose of this article I mean high level or low level languages.
Getting Results
A TED talk to get you motivated