Code Camp: Justice & Steve
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...
Security: Biometrics
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...
the (not so) secret history of hacking
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/
SQL permission script
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'