Security Challenge – Week 2
Oct. 2: Investigating how to set up a local Capture The Flag environment, for practice. After a bit of digging, I found …
Security Challenge – Week 1
Security BSides St. John’s wrapped up a couple of weeks ago, and has re-invigorated my interest in teaching myself more about security, …
Competition planning
This is cross-posted from my homebrewing blog, 7cubed.ca As you may have guessed from the above image, I’m pretty excited that Newfermenters …
Warning, incoming year…warning, incoming year
For those who may have missed it, the title is a reference to a computer-animated TV show from the 90s, called Reboot. …
Heading home
As of the evening of Friday, July 29th, I’ll be home for good. For those of you who don’t already know, I’ve …
Testers don’t prevent problems, but maybe they can
A couple of weeks ago, I read Michael Bolton’s post that argued “Testers don’t prevent problems.” (http://www.developsense.com/blog/2016/05/testers-dont-prevent-problems/, and it got me thinking. …
An Educational 2016
As has been my custom for a number of years now, here is my annual end-of-year post. Enjoy! Wow, I haven’t posted …
Building Skills Saturday – BBST Instructor
One of the areas of training I recently chose to pursue is how to be a better trainer. Specifically, training people in …
Building Skills Saturday – Code School
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to be a programmer. No, seriously! I was fascinated by computers from the age …
Full Belly Fridays: Red River Hacks
Until recently, my standard weekday breakfast was a bowl of cereal. Pretty much, whatever was on sale, as long as it wasn’t …