In the previous article, we transformed Oracle Forms from opaque binary files into structured XML. But that alone is not enough. After extracting thousands of Forms into XML, a new problem quickly ...

Cpppo (pronounced ‘c’3*’p’‘o’ in Python) is used to implement binary communications protocol parsers. The protocol’s communication elements are described in terms of state machines which change state ...

For our example, we assume we’ve set up two environment variables in the Windows operating system called USER_NAME and USER_PASS containing a username and password respectively. This is how we can ...

If I didn't cover something you want to know about or you find another problem, please open an issue on github. The Unix shell is one of my favorite inventions ever. It's genius, plain and simple. The ...