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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.

Ostering?

The name derives from two words, one in Italian “Osteria” and one in English “Running”.

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