HTML is a much simpler language.
HTML is very easy to learn, especially for someone familiar with the Web. In addition, the Web is overflowing with resources to help with the learning as well as great references. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) offers a good HTML introduction as well as many more lessons. TechRepublic provides numerous downloads about HTML, including an HTML reference guide and a CSS Reference Table.
You can find reference material from SitePoint with sites devoted to HTML and CSS.
There are tons of books available about HTML. Ian Lloyd's recently released The Ultimate HTML Reference, is a great resource in a surprisingly hard bound book. It provides a thorough discussion of each HTML element, along with example code and browser compatibility information.
Another good offering is HTML Dog: The Best-Practice Guide to XHTML and CSS.
Links:
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/programming-and-development/?p=707&tag=nl.e055
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System & Network Monitoring Tools
System & Network Monitoring Tools:
1. Nagios
2. munin
3. monit
4. zabbix
5. cacti
6. mongrel
About Munin - http://munin.projects.linpro.no/
Munin the monitoring tool surveys all your computers and remembers what it saw. It presents all the information in graphs through a web interface. Its emphasis is on plug and play capabilities. After completing a installation a high number of monitoring plugins will be playing with no more effort.
Using Munin you can easily monitor the performance of your computers, networks, SANs, applications, weather measurements and whatever comes to mind. It makes it easy to determine "what's different today" when a performance problem crops up. It makes it easy to see how you're doing capacity-wise on any resources.
Munin uses the excellent RRDTool (written by Tobi Oetiker) and the framework is written in Perl, while plugins may be written in any language. Munin has a master/node architecture in which the master connects to all the nodes at regular intervals and asks them for data. It then stores the data in RRD files, and (if needed) updates the graphs. One of the main goals has been ease of creating new plugins (graphs).
PHP
PHP => Hyper Text PreProcessor
PHP is a server-side, HTML-embedded, cross-platform scripting language--quite a mouthful. In simpler terms, PHP provides a way for you to put instructions in your HTML files to create dynamic content. These instructions are read and parsed by the web server; they never actually make it to the browser that is displaying the page. The web server replaces your PHP code with the content that the code was written to produce.
PHP can be configured to run either as a server module or as a standalone CGI script. At the time of this writing, the server-module version is only production-ready for the Apache web server on Unix systems. The CGI version runs with all web servers on both Unix and Windows 95/98/NT. On the Windows platform (as of PHP Version 4), the server module is being developed to work with ISAPI, NSAPI, and WSAPI, which means the server module will eventually work with Microsoft's IIS, Netscape's Enterprise Server, and O'Reilly's WebSite. See http://www.php.net/ for availability details.
The PHP language itself borrows concepts from other common languages, such as C and Perl. If you have some experience with one of these languages, you should feel right at home with PHP. In addition to the core language, PHP provides a wide variety of functions that support everything from array manipulation to regular expression support.
Database connectivity is one popular use for PHP. PHP supports a large number of databases natively and many others are accessible through PHP's ODBC functions. Through this database connectivity, it is possible, for example, to take a company's database of products and write a web interface to it using PHP.
PHP Frameworks:
1. Akelos
2. Symfony
3. PHPDevShell
4. CodeIgniter
5. Prado
6. CakePHP
7. ZooP
8. Zend
9. QPHP
PHP Resources Learn:
PHP.net is an excellent resource for PHP developers.
For a series of developerWorks tutorials on learning to program with PHP, see the "Learning PHP" series.
Visit IBM developerWorks' PHP project resources to learn more about PHP.
Stay current with developerWorks technical events and webcasts.
Check out upcoming conferences, trade shows, webcasts, and other Events around the world that are of interest to IBM open source developers.
Visit the developerWorks Open source zone for extensive how-to information, tools, and project updates to help you develop with open source technologies and use them with IBM's products.
To listen to interesting interviews and discussions for software developers, be sure to check out developerWorks podcasts.
Komodo IDE is available from ActiveState.
PHPDesigner is a product of MPSOFTWARE.
PHPEclipse, the free Eclipse plug-in for PHP, is available at PHPEclipse.net.
NuSphere is the maker of PhpED.
PHPEdit is available from WaterProof Software.
The PHP IDE Project, a free Eclipse plug-in for PHP, is available at Eclipse.org.
Zend Studio, along with other helpful PHP products, is available at Zend.com.
Innovate your next open source development project with IBM trial software, available for download or on DVD.
Free Programming Resources - http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/
PHP IDE:
http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/phpide.html
PHPeclipse PHP, SQL, HTML - parser, debugger, code formatter, outline view, templates. Built on top of the powerful Eclipse development platform (http://www.eclipse.org/).
Maguma Open Studio A PHP IDE that includes features for class browsing, ftp support, snippets, debugging and project management. The Open Source version of Maguma Studio.
PHP Designer 2005 The development environment in PHP Designer 2005 combines many powerful features such as customizable syntax schemes for PHP, HTML, XHTML, CSS, Perl, C#, JavaScript, VB, Java and SQL (Ingres, Interbase, MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase and Standard SQL), a class/include browser, test and debug your scripts with the PHP interpreter, integration of the PHP manual, parameter hint, auto indent of brackets, automatic close brackets, access to common code/script libraries all combined in this one unique program.
tsWebEditor tsWebEditor is a powerful php editor and html editor which you can also use as a simple text editor. It displays the source code colored (syntax highlight), parameter hint for functions, code completion (php, javascript, asp, html), code browser, php syntax and error check, help, css assistant, html tag editor, html syntax checker, etc.
KPHPDevelop KPHPDevelop is a PHP IDE for KDE. See the website for more detailes.
Dev-PHP IDE Dev-PHP is a full-featured Windows Integrated Development Environment for PHP. It has many cool features, like Function browsing and full integration with the PHP parser and the PHP-GTK library.
PHP Coder PHP Coder is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) especially developped for PHP programmers.
TemplateTamer TemplateTamer is a tool for creating and maintaining a template based dynamic PHP web applications, with clearly and completely separated code from the html design. Free edition can be used as long as there is a link to the TemplateTamer web on every page
Arisesoft Winsyntax Arisesoft Winsyntax is a free PHP-code editor with a fast syntax highlighting engine and the context PHP-help for professional scripting for Windows.
VBScript
VBScript (short for Visual Basic Scripting Edition) is an Active Scripting language developed by Microsoft. The language's syntax reflects its history as a limited variation of Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language.
VBScript is installed by default in every desktop release of the Windows Operating System (OS) since Windows 98[1] and may or may not be included with Windows CE depending on the configuration and purpose of the device it is running on. It initially gained support from Windows administrators seeking an automation tool more powerful than the batch language first developed in the late 1970s.
A VBScript script must be executed within a host environment, of which there are several provided on a standard install of Microsoft Windows (Windows Script Host, Windows Internet Explorer). Additionally, The VBScript hosting environment is embeddable in other programs, through technologies such as the Microsoft Script control (msscript.ocx).
Links:
PrimalScript VB IDE(from Sapient) -
http://www.primalscript.com/Download_Trial/downloadtrial.asp
Microsoft Script Debugger Download -
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2F465BE0-94FD-4569-B3C4-DFFDF19CCD99&displaylang=en
VBScript Debugging Scripts - http://wsh2.uw.hu/ch02e.html
How to use the Microsoft Script Debugger to debug VBScripts: http://wsh2.uw.hu/ch02e.html
VBScript Sample Code - http://www.activexperts.com/activmonitor/windowsmanagement/adminscripts/filesfolders/folders/
SplineTech VBS Debugger 6.22 - http://www.sharewareconnection.com/download-splinetech-vbs-debugger-from-sharecon.html
VBScript2Exe (exe) - VBScript2Exe is a program that quickly converts Visual Basic scripts to executable files (.exe), protecting contents of .vbs files from being changed by other users accidentally or intentionally. VBScript2Exe has the following unique features, converts Visual Basic scripts into executable files EXE format. Protects contents of .vbs from modification by...
Link - http://search.techrepublic.com.com/search/microsoft+development+tools+and+microsoft+vbscript+and+microsoft+visual+basic.html
Download Script Editor 2.0 - http://www.sharewareconnection.com/download-script-editor-from-sharecon.html
http://www.visualbasicscript.com/m_57462/tm.htm
http://www.motobit.com/tips/detpg_replfile/
Toos for Analyzing Web Server Logs
Log files are not fun to look at. They are ugly, contain too much information, and often lead to massive headaches. Fortunately, these beasts can be tamed for more capacities than just debugging; they can used to generate wonderful reports that make sense.
Tools:
1. AWStats
2. Analog
3. WebTrends
4. Summary
5. Webalizer
Links:
WebServer LogAnalysis Tools Overview - http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3518061
Analyzing Web Logs with AWStats -
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/12/01/awstats.html
Web Server Log Rotation and Analysis -
http://www.keithjbrown.co.uk/vworks/unix/logs.php
Regular Expressions
A regular expression (or RE) specifies a set of strings that matches it; the functions in this module let you check if a particular string matches a given regular expression (or if a given regular expression matches a particular string, which comes down to the same thing).
Regular expressions can be concatenated to form new regular expressions; if A and B are both regular expressions, then AB is also a regular expression. In general, if a string p matches A and another string q matches B, the string pq will match AB. This holds unless A or B contain low precedence operations; boundary conditions between A and B; or have numbered group references. Thus, complex expressions can easily be constructed from simpler primitive expressions like the ones described here. For details of the theory and implementation of regular expressions, consult the Friedl book referenced above, or almost any textbook about compiler construction.
A brief explanation of the format of regular expressions follows. For further information and a gentler presentation, consult the Regular Expression HOWTO, accessible from http://www.python.org/doc/howto/.
Regular Expressions :
^ matches the beginning of a string.
$ matches the end of a string.
\b matches a word boundary.
\d matches any numeric digit.
\D matches any non-numeric character.
x? matches an optional x character (in other words, it matches an x zero or one times).
x* matches x zero or more times.
x+ matches x one or more times.
x{n,m} matches an x character at least n times, but not more than m times.
(abc) matches either a or b or c.
(x) in general is a remembered group. You can get the value of what matched by using the
groups() method of the object returned by re.search.
Links:
Regular Expressions - http://www.regular-expressions.info/
Regular Expressions - http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html
"Regular Expression Pocket Reference: Pocket Reference" By Tony Stubblebine, Nathan Torkington Book -
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=yWiAPqBKuqYC&dq=regular+expressions&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=ml6KiIf7MQ&sig=iNm7kbvt_WLeofmkf9mdNyHLlWg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result
"Mastering Regular Expressions" By Jeffrey Friedl Book -
http://books.google.com/books?id=ucwR4KIvExMC&dq=%22Mastering+Regular+Expressions%22+By+Jeffrey+Friedl+Book&pg=PP1&ots=QLuEp_8WLi&sig=o5HmLuhkYgrnRCw6t88-4qe6uu4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result
Regular Expression Engines:
PCRE - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5. PCRE has its own native API, as well as a set of wrapper functions that correspond to the POSIX regular expression API. The PCRE library is free, even for building commercial software.
C++ Regular Expression Engines - PCRE, BOOST REGEXJAVA Regular Expression Engines - Apache Regexp
Links:
Regular Expression Engines - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_regular_expression_engines
PCRE - http://www.pcre.org/
BOOST Regex - http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/libs/regex/doc/html/index.html
Regular Expressions in C++ with Boost.Regex - http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/04/06/boostregex.html
Apache Regexp - http://projects.apache.org/projects/regexp.html
Regular Expressions in C++ - http://www.ddj.com/184404797
Python
1. Prototyping in Python is quick and easy, and often results in development of the final system in Python. The agile nature of the language, and the ease of refactoring code makes for rapid development directly from the initial prototype.
3. Software Testing benefits from Python's strong integration and text processing capabilities, and Python comes with its own unit testing framework.
Popular Python IDEs:
Links:
Python Tutorial - http://www.penzilla.net/tutorials/python/index.shtml
Python Links - http://remus.rutgers.edu/cs314/f2007/ryder/lectures/Python2-19.pdf
Python Articles - http://www.devshed.com/c/b/Python/
The Python Regular Expression Debugger (Kodos) - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43860
Python for Java Programmers : http://www.cs.wlu.edu/~necaise/python/Main/TableOfContents
Python Regular Expressions - http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/
Python HOWTOs - http://docs.python.org/dev/howto/index.html
Python for C++ guys - http://www.ibiblio.org/g2swap/byteofpython/read/
Thinking in Python Book - http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIPython
Dive Into Python Book - http://diveintopython.org/toc/index.html
Perl & Python Books - http://www.techbooksforfree.com/perlpython.shtml
Python resources - http://www.bogotobogo.com/python/pytut.php
Videos:
Python overview -
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4mEzFDjqtA
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkx5_MRAV3A
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlzePDUgL_8
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrPZza_vZ3w
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWoSEXHVl7c
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfWE9pvAnT0
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0mZXVkiaOo&index=2&list=PL9ooVrP1hQOHY-BeYrKHDrHKphsJOyRyu
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPHmtAGG3mc
Best of Java
Five Java articles you should share with your team - http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-1046131.html?tag=rbxccnbtr1
How to Write Doc Comments for the Javadoc Tool - http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingdoccomments/index.html
Ten tips for creating killer Java docs - http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-1045800.html?tag=rbxccnbtr1
Doxygen way of Commenting the code - http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/docblocks.html
Commonly used architectural patterns in Java applications - http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-1049864.html?tag=rbxccnbtr1
Abstract packages ensure flexibility - http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-1058943.html?tag=rbxccnbtr1
gSoap Client through Http Proxy
HTTP Proxy Authentication with gSoap:
HTTP proxy authentication (basic) is enabled at the client-side by setting the soap.proxy_userid and soap.proxy_passwd strings to a username and password, respectively.
For example, a proxy server may request user authentication. Otherwise, access is denied by the proxy (HTTP 407 error).
Example client code fragment to set proxy server, username, and password:
struct soap soap;
soap_init(&soap);
soap.proxy_host = "xx.xx.xx.xx"; // IP or domain
soap.proxy_port = 8080;
soap.proxy_userid = "guest";
soap.proxy_passwd = "guest";
...
A client SOAP request will have the following HTTP header:
POST /XXX HTTP/1.0
Host: YYY User-Agent: gSOAP/2.2 Content-Type: text/xml;
charset=utf-8 Content-Length: nnn Proxy-Authorization: Basic Z3Vlc3Q6Z3Vlc3Q= ...
When X-Forwarded-For headers are returned by the proxy, the header can be accessed in the soap.proxy_from string.
Links:
gSOAP 2.7.10 User Guide - http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/soapdoc2.html
CInternetSession INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_PROXY through Http Proxy
CInternetSession - Creates and initializes a single or several simultaneous Internet sessions and, if necessary, describes your connection to a proxy server.
CInternetSession is a MFC wrapper over WinInet.dll which gets installed with Internet Explorer(IE).
The Constructor of "CInternetSession" looks like -
CInternetSession(
LPCTSTR pstrAgent = NULL,
DWORD_PTR dwContext = 1,
DWORD dwAccessType = PRE_CONFIG_INTERNET_ACCESS,
LPCTSTR pstrProxyName = NULL,
LPCTSTR pstrProxyBypass = NULL,
DWORD dwFlags = 0
);
Details:
dwAccessType :
The type of access required. The following are valid values, exactly one of which may be supplied:
INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_PRECONFIG - Connect using preconfigured settings in the registry. This access type is set as the default. To connect through a TIS proxy, set dwAccessType to this value; you then set the registry appropriately.
INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_DIRECT - Connect directly to Internet.
INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_PROXY - Connect through a CERN proxy.
For information on connecting with different types of proxies, see Steps in a Typical FTP Client Application.
pstrProxyName :
The name of the preferred CERN proxy if dwAccessType is set as INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_PROXY. The default is NULL.
pstrProxyBypass :
A pointer to a string containing an optional list of server addresses. These addresses may be bypassed when using proxy access. If a NULL value is supplied, the bypass list will be read from the registry. This parameter is meaningful only if dwAccessType is set to INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_PROXY.
SQL Injection Prevention Tools
SQL Injection: Something to do with Sql User Input Vulnerability.
SQL Injection is a technique which enables an attacker to execute unauthorized SQL commands by taking advantage of unsanitized input opportunities in Web applications building dynamic SQL queries.
SQL injection attacks are possible because the SQL language contains a number of features that make it quite powerful and flexible, namely:
1. The ability to embed comments in a SQL statement using a pair of hyphens.
2. The ability to string multiple SQL statements together and to execute them in a batch.3. The ability to use SQL to query metadata from a standard set of system tables.
SqlInjection examples: SELECT Count(*) FROM Users WHERE UserName='' Or 1=1 --' AND Password='' ' UNION SELECT id, name, '', 0 FROM sysobjects WHERE xtype ='U' -- '; UPDATE Products SET UnitPrice = 0.01 WHERE ProductId = 1--
How to prevent SQL Injection:
1. Always validate User dynamic SQL data
2. Always execute SQL Statements with Least User Privilges
3. Do not show database Error messages completely
Tools to prevent Sql Injection:
Each of these tools works differently and each attacks the SQL injection problem from a different angle, and in combination they complement each other well," revealed Bryan Sullivan, Security Product Manager SDL team.
HP Scrawlr: The tool will crawl a website, simultaneously analyzing the parameters of each individual web page for SQL Injection vulnerabilities. Scrawlr uses some of the same technology found in HP WebInspect but has been built to focus only on SQL Injection vulnerabilities. This will allow an IT/DB admin to easily find vulnerabilities similar to the ones that have been used to compromise sites in recent attacks. No source code is required to run this tool. From a starting URL, the tool recursively crawls that URL in order to build up a site tree that will be then analyzed for SQL injection vulnerabilities.
Microsoft Source Code Analyzer for SQL Injection: Called MSCASI, this is a static code analysis tool that identifies SQL Injection vulnerabilities in ASP code (ASP pages are the ones that have been under attack). In order to run MSCASI you will need source code access and MSCASI will output areas vulnerable to SQL injection (i.e. the root cause and vulnerable path is identified). It scans ASP source code and generates warnings for first order and second order SQL Injection vulnerabilities.
URLScan 3.0: This tool restricts the types of HTTP requests that Internet Information Services (IIS) will process. By blocking specific HTTP requests, UrlScan helps prevent potentially harmful requests from being executed on the server. It uses a set of keywords to block certain requests. If a bad request is detected, the filter will drop the request and it will not be processed by SQL. That said, if a SQL injection flaw has been identified, you are encouraged to fix the root cause of the problem instead of attempting to produce the perfect filter (since in our view this is error prone).
Tool to perform SqlInjection !!!
SqlMap: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqlmap/
Sqlmap is an automatic SQL injection tool. It is capable to perform an extensive DBMS back-end fingerprint, retrieve remote usernames, tables, columns, enumerate entire DBMS and much more taking advantage of web application SQL injection vulnerabilities.
Links:
SQL Injection Attacks by Example – http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/sql-injection.html
SQL Injection Walkthrough - http://www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/5DP0N1P76E.html
Developers at fault? SQL Injection attacks lead to wide-spread compromise of IIS servers - http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1059
Bryan Sullivan Blog on Security: - http://blogs.msdn.com/sdl/
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163917.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/database/SqlInjectionAttacks.aspx
SqlServer Overview
Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) produced by Microsoft. Its primary query language is Transact-SQL, an implementation of the ANSI/ISO standard Structured Query Language (SQL) used by both Microsoft and Sybase.
Links:
Microsoft SqlServer's Home - http://www.microsoft.com/SQL/default.mspx
Microsoft's SqlServer Developer Home -
http://crawlmsdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/default.aspx
sqlserver central - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/
Microsoft SqlServer - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SQL_Server
SqlServer Magazine - http://www.sqlmag.com/
SqlServer Tools - http://www.stylusstudio.com/sqlserver.html
SqlServer Tutorials - http://www.functionx.com/sqlserver/
Free SQL Server tools that might make your life a little easier - http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/mladenp/archive/2007/11/20/Free-SQL-Server-tools-that-might-make-your-life-a.aspx
SQL Server 2008 Books Online -
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb543165(sql.100).aspx
Oracle Overview
Links:
Oracle Technology Network - http://www.oracle.com/technology/index.html
Oracle Knowledge Base - http://oracle.ittoolbox.com/
Oracle Blogs - http://blogs.oracle.com/
Oracle Academy - https://academy.oracle.com/
Oracle Tools - http://www.orafaq.com/tools/
Oracle Development Tools - http://www.orafaq.com/tools/#Developer_Tools
Mastering Oracle Sql Book - http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=Rl2_4LhDjZkC&dq=oracle&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=gaYnrtP4J6&sig=0B8OKUXnQuHTJQ9bFFeNQSyODlA&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result
PL/SQL Best Practices: Optimizing Oracle Code Book - http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=BZ3xICLiwwkC&dq=oracle&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=Jr6svNlvdn&sig=83VgoXnDtddPh7p9zV359C9Eyr8&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result
Free and Open Source Software - http://oss.oracle.com/
Toad vs Sql Developer - http://oracle.ittoolbox.com/documents/popular-q-and-a/toad-vs-sql-developer-4625
Software Freelancing Sites URLs
https://www.elance.com
http://www.guru.com/
http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/default.asp
http://www.getacoder.com/
http://www.getafreelancer.com/buyers/create.php
http://www.guru.com/category.cfm?cid=800&tc=20000&kw=freelance%20software%20development
http://www.softwareprojects.org/offshore-development-freelance-developer.htm
http://www.ifreelance.com/Freelancers/Freelance-Software-Designers/
http://programmingbids.com/
http://www.freelancebbs.com/fbb/freelancer_pp_2030_Software_development.html
How to become Freelancer -
http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2008/01/18/the-five-minute-guide-to-becoming-a-freelance-software-developer/
Regular Expression Engines - PCRE, Boost Regex, Apache Regexp
PCRE - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5. PCRE has its own native API, as well as a set of wrapper functions that correspond to the POSIX regular expression API. The PCRE library is free, even for building commercial software.
C++ Regular Expression Engines - PCRE, BOOST REGEX
JAVA Regular Expression Engines - Apache Regexp
Links:
PCRE - http://www.pcre.org/
BOOST Regex - http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/libs/regex/doc/html/index.html
Regular Expressions in C++ with Boost.Regex - http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/04/06/boostregex.html
Apache Regexp - http://projects.apache.org/projects/regexp.html
Regular Expressions in C++ - http://www.ddj.com/184404797
Regular Expression Engines - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_regular_expression_engines
Network Packet Analysis API
What is libpcap?:
The libpcap library can be used to read, record, inject and in general deal with network packets at a higher level than raw sockets. Essentially libpcap can be used to easily collect up or manipulate packets. Libpcap functions also abstract a lot of the differences between Operating Systems' network API making programs that leverage libpcap generally more portable or perhaps saving the programmer the headache of writing their own network API layer. This is not to say dealing with packets even with libpcap is easy; just slightly easier.
Tools that use libpcap : Wireshark, Tcpdump
Links:
1. Packet Reading with libpcap Part 1 - http://www.systhread.net/texts/200805lpcap1.php
2. On the Wire: Network Capture Tools for API Developers - http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=71567
SAAS(Software as a Service) WebServices
Web services are software systems designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. This interoperability is gained through a set of XML-based open standards, such as WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI. These standards provide a common approach for defining, publishing, and using web services.
Web Services is an emerging technology that provides machine-to-machine interaction over a network using an XML based protocol called SOAP. Web Services are an important building block of a Service Oriented Architecture or SOA. SOAP is analagous to Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) or Remote Method Invocation (RMI) which also can be used in a SOA. Alternatively, SOAP can use a "document-style" for its calls; this minimizes the need to call the service multiple times for most requests.
Interfaces available through a SOAP based Web Service are generally described using the Web Services Description Language (WSDL). Location of WSDL files are often times indexed in a UDDI server, although UDDI never became a critical part of web services deployments. In recent years, UDDI's role as a directory of services has been superceded by Web Service Brokers, which provide a single access point to multiple services while providing functions common to most services such as caching, logging, security, and high availability (failover/clustering). Synapse from the Apache Foundation provides one such broker.
SOAP and Web services, broadly speaking, are not restricted to using HTTP for transport. Many SOAP libraries include support for SOAP over SMTP (via email), XMPP (instant messaging protocol), and other transports. Support for alternate transports is something to consider when implementing SOAP-based services.
A useful web service is one that exposes information through a generic interface that is intended for multiple consumers. The better designed your web service, the more useful it becomes for the consumers of that web service.
gSoap can be used to develop C++ based WebServices ... It provideds C++ to XML binding.
Apache Axis can be used to develop JAVA based WebServices.
SoapUI tool can be used for WebServices Unit Testing.
Wireshark tool can be used to sniffer Soap/XML Packets.
Fiddler tool can be used to intercept HTTP Headers.
Links
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/WebServices/soa/
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/WebServices/soa2/
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/09/30/soa.html
http://www.service-architecture.com/web-services/articles/index.html
gsoap YahooGroupshttp://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/gsoap/
Developing WebServices with gSoap - http://www.ddj.com/cpp/184401909
gSOAP 2.7.10 User Guide(In HTML) - http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/soapdoc2.html#tth_sEc7.1.2
gSOAP 2.7.10 User Guide(In PDF) - http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/soapdoc2.pdf
gSoap Sample(Developing Calculator Webservice) -http://www.genivia.com/Products/gsoap/demos/calc.html
gSoap Sample Code - http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/soap.html
Unit Testing WebServices Tool - SoapUI (http://sourceforge.net/projects/soapui)
Intercept WebService Soap Calls : Tool - WireShark (http://www.wireshark.org/)
Apache tcpmon: An open-source utility to Monitor A TCP Connection Link - https://tcpmon.dev.java.net/
WSMonitor - wsmonitor (Web Services Monitor) is a light-weight SOAP and HTTP traffic monitor. This tool intercepts and logs the SOAP messages and HTTP headers between a sender and a receiver and displays them nicely formatted in a graphical user interface Link : https://wsmonitor.dev.java.net/
Apache Webservices Common Tools Link - http://ws.apache.org/
Fiddler - Web Debugging Tool (Intercept HTTP Headers) -http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/version.asp
Apache WebServices Wiki - http://wiki.apache.org/ws/
Securing Web Services Book - http://books.google.com/books?id=zX2N7fWTJOUC&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=RBAC+ABAC&source=web&ots=iNSgG5F5Sc&sig=ILebS-DsvlxddRBSIwmakwMKyzk&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result#PPP1,M1
ABAC vs RBAC - http://www-ifs.uni-regensburg.de/fileadmin/Forschung/PDF_Publikationen/llncs-dem.pdf
RBAC - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V0G-46WW2TN-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=32cb8dcb0dc01647b5e6c71d80f3181b
