Windows Vista?!?!? What the hell were they thinking in Redmond? Apple gives us sexy, cool sounding names like Tiger and Panther and then Microsoft chimes in with something that sounds like GM’s latest failure. [Confessions of a G33k]
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Bye bye longhorn, hello vista
Cyberspace Samurai’s Art of Hacking
Duane LaFlotte, the guy you want on YOUR side when it comes to hacking servers, has a great article on DevSource. In it he walks you through the devious mind of a hacker. The article required the following legal disclaimer “LEGAL DISCLAIMER: Please do not go hacking sites because “Duane told me to do it.” I said, just look at the site, don’t hack the site.”
If you ever get a chance to see Duane and Patrick Hynds (both of Critical Sites which specializes in defending your networks) do their hacking presentation together, you really ought to try to see it. I’ll have to find out where the next performance is.
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Casey vs. Captcha
this guy is just scary smart! And Jason’s latest Captcha attempt is still pretty darned impressive!
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Da Big “P”
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Nice mention in Vermont Business Mag article on Vermont Software Developer Alliance
One of the projects I have been involved with for the last year is the formation of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance. The Vermont Business Magazine just published a great article on the organization and I was very happy to see this paragraph.
Included in that number is a one-woman software consulting firm with an international reputation. Julia Lerman, who does some of her business via thedatafarm.com, works with Microsoft on software development projects while giving speeches around the country and serving as a mentor to young software companies. She moved to Huntington six years ago from the New York City area because of the state’s skiing and riding opportunities. Lerman says she had wanted to relocate to Vermont sooner, but it took her a while to realize “how much tech is going on up here.”
There are a lot of awesome companies (vertical, consulting, large and small) in our area. Not just the .NET folks that have made Vermont.NET such a success, but many technologies. We are darned lucky to have our cake (live in this beautiful place) and eat it too (do the work we love).
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Keeping up with the Joneses #2
Keeping up with the Joneses #2
Keeping up with the Joneses #2: AJAX, MSBUILD, IIS7 and Certifications [read more …]
[A DevLife post]
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Mike Roberts, CruiseControl.NET Author, on his experience in the London Bombings
Mike was on one of the trains, luckily, many cars away, that got bombed in London. Although he notes how fortunate he was not to get killed, he notes that many who left physically unscathed, will still suffer emotional scras for a long time. Here’s his blog post. (by way of Szymon Kobalczyk).
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Keeping up with the Joneses #1
I’m going to start a new category. It is called “Keeping up with the Joneses”.
Here I will get to vent for each time I see someone working with a technology that I haven’t had the time to play with yet. Every time I see someone writing about their Indigo or Avalon projects, there is a little demon on my shoulder whispering “you are SUCH a loser and a dumb-ass, cause you don’t even know how to do that yet!” Of course it’s all very silly of me. I spend a lot of time on certain technologies and who can do it all? And the folks doing those Avalon projects are probably focused on Avalon and not working with a lot of other technologies either. I keep telling myself that, anyway.
So today’s Keeping up with the Joneses is:
- Firefox Update Nope I have never even LOOKED at Firefox
- New WS SecurityPolicy Published Whoa – *this* I need to look at! But I’m stuck on this darned Sharepoint (with a tight deadline) project
- Hacking MSN Virtual Earth I’ve been thinking about Virtual Earth. Check out Dr. Neil’s project.
- Small CodeSmith Template effort launched Nope, never done any CodeGen. Not used any of the tools. Happily, Kathleen still likes me.
- Concurrency: What Every Dev Must Know About Multithreaded Apps Ahh yes, threading. I grok it okay I guess, but I would like to be much more knowledgable about it.
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