Monday, July 25, 2005

Some good Wiki sites on the web.

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I cam upon this wiki as I was surfing the web, searching for more info on XP...It turned out to be a gold mine of information.. http://c2.co...

Design By Contract

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When I first heard about DBC 4 years back, little did I know how important a role it can play in software development. But my experience in ...
Friday, July 22, 2005

Proxy setting for Java programs

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Quite often whenever we need to connect to the internet thru the company firewall, we need to set the proxy details for the Java interpreter...

Java Decompilers and Obfuscators

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Was looking for a comprehensive list of Java decompilers and obfuscators..Found a nice article here: http://www.program-transformation.org/T...
Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Java Classpaths on Cygwin

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The problem with using Java on Cygwin is that Java.exe is a windows program and expects the path to be in windows style. Whereas Cygwin expe...
Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Java and .NET interop

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Came across a cool tool today that can be used to convert Java byte-code to .NET IL. What does this mean to developers..Well, it means that ...
Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Diff btw a Corba object and a servant

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I have been perplexed by the concepts of Corba object and servant. Finally after a lot of reading, things are falling into place. The follow...

IPC channel in .NET 2.0 (remoting)

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Good news is that MS has finally included the 'named-pipe' channel into the core .NET 2.0 remoting framework. The channel is known a...

Named pipes in Linux

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In computing, a named pipe (also FIFO for its behaviour) is an extension to the classical pipe concept on UNIX and UNIX-like systems, and is...
Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Chatty interfaces Vs Chunky interfaces

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In distributed applications, we need to put special emphasis on issues such as network latency, low bandwidth. Hence as a good design princi...

Problems with CAO in .NET remoting.

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In his excellent article here , Ingo Rammer states the points why CAO is not a good option for many scenarios. Excerpt from the article: CAO...

Important points regarding Sponsors in .NET remoting

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The lease manager calls ISponsor's single method, Renewal, when the lease expires, asking for new lease time. Because the sponsor is cal...

Access a .NET webserice using proxy generated from SoapSuds.exe

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Both WSDL.exe and Soapsuds.exe generate proxies that can be used to access a web service. But we need to be aware of the SOAP encoding diffe...

SOAP encoding concepts

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Web Services Description Language (WSDL) defines two styles for how an XML Web service method, which it calls an operation, can be encoded i...

Elements in the .NET remoting chain

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There are a lot of components/elements that play a role in the .NET remoting architecture: Client --> Proxy {Converts the stack frame ...

.NET Remoting Proxies

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In .NET remoting, proxies are generated transparently by the remoting runtime, hence it is necessary to have the remote object metadata at t...
Monday, July 11, 2005

Data Concurrency Violations in ADO.NET

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Bcoz the DataSet is a disconnected data model, quite often we may have to handle concurrency problems. There are basically 3 ways in which d...

Object Activation in .NET remoting

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I have often been confused on when the 'new()' operator can be used for remote server activation? Can it be used only for CAO (clien...

SoapSuds.exe Vs the Wsdl.exe

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I have often seen developers getting confused over the similarity of the SoapSuds.exe and the WSDL.exe tools -- after all, both are used to ...
Friday, July 08, 2005

Aspnet_regiis.exe tool

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There are times when the 'link' between IIS and ASP.NET can be broken, because of uninstall or reinstall of IIS or .NET environment....
Thursday, July 07, 2005

Big endian Vs little endian

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With Apple officially declaring that Mac's would move to Intel processors, it brought out an important question in my mind...What would ...

Subversion -- A supplant to CVS?

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CVS has done a lot of good to a lot of projects..But there is a new tool that's making waves in the open-source community..A source-cont...
Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Dictionary Attack on Ur hashed passwords

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Whenever we store a hashed password in a file or in the database, then it may be possible for a intruder to get the password using a 'di...
Monday, July 04, 2005

Cool Tool: Link Checker

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Quite often, we have to unit-test each and every link on a web site. This could be automated thru a tool called "Link Checker" ava...
Friday, July 01, 2005

Capturing Page-output in ASPX pages

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There is a cool trick thru which one can capture the page-output of Aspx pages before it is send to the browser. An excellent article explai...
Thursday, June 30, 2005

Typed datasets in ADO.NET

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In ADO.NET when I came across the concept of typed data-set (using the XSD.exe tool), the first question I had on my mind was "WHY?...

What is FCAPs in network management?

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FCAPS is the ISO model for network management . It forms the cornerstone of current day network management. It is an acronym for Faults, Co...
Wednesday, June 29, 2005

How to display all TCP/UDP connections on Ur machine?

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Windows comes with a cool utility known as 'netstat' that can be used to find out all the current TCP or UDP connections on Ur PC. A...

"Tera Term" terminal client

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In one of my projects, I often had to log on (telnet) to a server and execute a number of steps.. I desparately wanted some tool which woul...
Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Shortcut to reach etc\hosts on a windows machine

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Just type 'drivers' on a command prompt or in the 'Run' option. :) I found this damn handy bcoz I often used to forget the f...