September 3, 2014 / Last updated : April 22, 2023 Drona Java

Protection of Java Based Software

A short presentation on available options for protecting java based softwares. Lists pros and cons of each approach. Argues on why obfuscation is the best approach and makes a feature comparison of the leading obfuscators available in the market.

August 28, 2014 / Last updated : April 22, 2023 Drona Unix

Find files containing my text

Searching a given text inside a set of files is a very common use case. There are different ways of doing it depending on how deep you need search through the directory tree.

August 28, 2014 / Last updated : April 22, 2023 Drona Unix

Find the process using a given port

This article shows how to find the process using a given port or range of ports on *nix systems. Many a times when running socket based applications you will find the application failing with socket bind exception with a message saying address is already in use. That indicates that some other process is already […]