In the spirit of calgary code camp its time to blog about the presentation while in the presentation.I am currently in Justice and Steves intro to Rails. So far I am quite impressed. Humor quota: filledTransformer quota: filledTalking about edmug exec hair quota: filledcomparing ruby to a $5 whore.... pricelessoh and there was something about ruby. Actually the pace of the presentation is nice and fast which is helping me wake up (as well as the amount of caffine I injested already). It is a great into into ruby and now I really see why people are liking it as...

I love how in this day and age we feel that throwing technology at a problem will solve our problems. The new trend seems to be biometric authentication. Seems like a good idea to identify someone by some sort of biosignature (usually a fingerpring) but from what I have seen and heard quite easy to get around (just watch this mythbusters vid). Really if someone wants something bad enough they will get it. It is easy to lift a fingerprint of off something you have touched. Would you leave sticky notes with your password on it everywhere you go? did not think so. Also if you really...

This is a good video talking about the origins of phreaks, hackers, apples, social engineering, and a little bit about hackers as we now know them. All in all fairly good and accurate from my knowledge. Its about 50mins long. http://www.pistolwimp.com/media/50952/

Often for my deployments I need a script that recreates all stored procs and then grants the public role to have access to it. I posted a script that someone else had developed a long time ago but.... it sucked.... ya. so here is the simple new one:select    'grant execute on '+[name]+ ' to public'from    sysobjects where    xtype='P'or        xtype='FN'