Archive for the Category: Assembler

NSA Suggests Companies Shift To Memory Safe Programming Languages

November 10, 2022 Roger Lacroix

NSA is advising companies to look into switching to memory safe languages such as C#, Go, Java, Ruby, or Swift. From the report: https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/News-Highlights/Article/Article/3215760/nsa-releases-guidance-on-how-to-protect-against-software-memory-safety-issues/ Here is a direct link to the NSA report: https://media.defense.gov/2022/Nov/10/2003112742/-1/-1/0/CSI_SOFTWARE_MEMORY_SAFETY.PDF Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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MQ Internals Explained (a little bit)

December 10, 2019 Roger Lacroix

IBM likes to market IBM MQ (aka WebSphere MQ, MQSeries) as a simple and complete solution for business’s messaging needs. Going with the KISS approach is wise (very wise in some cases). IBM talks about the 2 different messaging models that IBM MQ supports: Point-to-Point (P2P) and Publish/Subscribe (Pub/Sub). IBM will: show you how to […]

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Language Wars – Maybe Enough Already

October 10, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Maybe I’m just old and grumpy, but I’m tired of surfing the internet and seeing language wars. I just saw this line “100% Java free!” the other day, listed as a product feature and it makes me shake my head. Of all the product features that would sell a product, you want to include that […]

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How to Become a Better Developer?

April 27, 2015 Roger Lacroix

I just read a really good article by Cay Horstmann called ‘How to Become a Better Java Developer’ at InformIT: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2343471 All novice developers, regardless of the programming language they are learning, should read the article (I strongly suggest it). It has a lot of really good pointers for novice developers. Cay Horstmann has written […]

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Free: Parser, Syntax Checker and Interpreter Tools

November 13, 2012 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware is now hosting Richard Tsujimoto’s Parser, Syntax Checker and Interpreter Tools. These tools provide a simple means for parsing strings, perform syntax checking and interpreting the parameters and/or values of the parsed strings. https://www.capitalware.com/psci_overview.html These tools are written in C for AIX, HP-UX, Linux, IBM i (OS/400) and Windows. For IBM mainframes, the tools […]

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