Visite de Beijing

J’ai fini par pouvoir uploader une bonne partie des photos restantes en particulier le parc de Beihai, connu pour sont Dagoba blanc, une pagode de style tibetain, et les fameux Hutong, une specialite Pekinoise nee pendant la dynastie Yuan. La dynastie Yuan a ete fondee par Kubilai Khan, le petit-fils de Gengis, un roi Mongol […]

Beijing

Nous sommes arrive a Beijing apres un voyage en train de 9 heures. Heureusement c’etait un train de nuit avec couchettes, je m’attendais a un truc pas terrible mais les wagons etaient assez modernes et tres confortables (bon, on avait pris des billets de premiere aussi, il y avait meme une tele par couchette) j’ai […]

LinkedIn, day 2

Two days on LinkedIn, added 18 direct contacts and i am connected to 36,700+ in my network 8) What is the most interesting is that 18{5f676304cfd4ae2259631a2f5a3ea815e87ae216a7b910a3d060a7b08502a4b2} of that population is in California whereas the only one I know in California is not in the network… Image Credits: Jerry Luk

Learning Chinese

By the way, I started learning Chinese some months ago, bought some books, took some lessons and finally had the idea to look on the Internet for some resources. And I found an absolutely fantastic podcast called ChinesePod.com, there you can download free daily podcasts and, if you want to go further, pay your subscription […]

Windows Integrated Security and Java Web Applications

In my previous post I was explaining how to use an Active Directory server to authenticate a user. Indeed, I was trying to make the system authenticate the user using the Windows credentials that she already entered when logging onto her workstation. Some years ago I was working with IIS and it was only a […]

ActiveDirectory authentication in Java

Recently I came into trying to authenticate users of an intranet web-application against the ActiveDirectory server that is used to authenticate them on their Windows desktop. Here is some code I used to achieve this. I went into several steps, the first of them being creating a custom user registry to interface my web server […]