Programming Languages

Java

Building A Logo Turtle App With Antlr And JavaFX

This post is about building a very simple application, implementing a subset of the Logo Programming Language along with a UI that visualizes the Logo programms entered by users.The technologies used were Antlr for creating a parser for a subset of the Logo rules and also JavaFX for creating a…

Posted on 6th June 20206th June 2020 by nikkatsa

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Brushing Up My C. Building A Unix Domain Socket Client/Server (PART II)

I described in this previous blog post how to build a simplistic Unix Domain Socket client/server application.The disadvantage with that approach is that the server can only handle one connection at a time (i.e. is not concurrent). This blog post explains how this can be improved by using mechanisms like…

Posted on 24th May 202024th May 2020 by nikkatsa

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Brushing Up My C. Building A Unix Domain Socket Client/Server (Part I)

I haven't really done much C in my professional career. There were a couple of times that I had to look into some C code, but not really create any kind of system in C. Most of my interaction with the C programming language dates back to university times.I always…

Posted on 23rd May 202023rd May 2020 by nikkatsa

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Java, The Cost of a Single Element Loop

In quite a few cases I have seen myself designing code with listeners and callbacks. It is quite common for a class that emits events, to expose an API to attach listener(s) to it. Those listeners are usually stored in a data structure (see List, Set, Array) and when an…

Posted on 27th October 201927th October 2019 by nikkatsa

Java

JDK Evolution

I know for fact that many people (especially in the financial technology industry) are very skeptical when a new version of Java is released. People, actually persist to update their Java version (even the JRE version) for many years. There are a lot of places that are still using Java…

Posted on 4th September 20164th September 2016 by nikkatsa

Being a polyglot developer

Throughout my professional career i have mainly used object oriented, statically typed programming languages. The likes of Java and C# were ideal for big scale projects. Such languages have a massive active community behind them, developing frameworks, tools, writing articles about it and responding to questions in online forums. Hence…

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Java

Building A Logo Turtle App With Antlr And JavaFX

Posted on 6th June 20206th June 2020 by nikkatsa

c

Brushing Up My C. Building A Unix Domain Socket Client/Server (PART II)

Posted on 24th May 202024th May 2020 by nikkatsa

c

Brushing Up My C. Building A Unix Domain Socket Client/Server (Part I)

Posted on 23rd May 202023rd May 2020 by nikkatsa

Java

Java, The Cost of a Single Element Loop

Posted on 27th October 201927th October 2019 by nikkatsa

Java

JDK Evolution

Posted on 4th September 20164th September 2016 by nikkatsa

Programming Languages

Being a polyglot developer

Posted on 3rd July 2016 by nikkatsa