Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
Tonight I will be speaking at the Los Angeles.NET User Group on Practical Web application Security with ASP.NET/MVC. Following is the abstract. Abstract: This session is a hands-on introduction to the web application security threats using the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) top 10 list of potential security flaws. The OWASP Top Ten provides…
With the release of .NET Framework 4.5 last week, there has been several questions regarding the upgrade path as well as what OS is supported. .NET 4.5 is an in-place upgrade and you can read more about it in Scott Hanselman's detailed post here. Hopefully the following points would make the versioning and support issues more…
Even though I am still waiting for my official printed dead-tree copy, a co-worker Frank Liao just showed me Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook on his safari online account. This just proves what Hanselman always predicted, it's cheaper, portable and faster to move electrons than molecules 🙂 Read my previous post for more information about the…
Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric provides caching capabilities to facilitate high-speed access, scale, and high availability to application data. Also, for composite applications, AppFabric makes it easier to build and manage services built using Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation. It also provides amazing monitoring capabilities for your existing WCF services. After dabbling early with…
An earlier post on "Making a business case for MVC" provided some details about how a developer or architect can promote ASP.NET MVC framework based on features such as Facilitation of Modern Web Experience, Quicker Turn Around for Enhancement Requests, Enhanced Security Features, Performance & Scalability, Compliance, Test Driven Development Support and Reusability. Following is…
I thoroughly enjoyed attending the Summer Dissertation Conference @ SCIS NSU and presenting the LaTeX / LyX 101 – A Hands-on BYOL Workshop (Rm. 3032/3034) on day 2. I would like to thank the attendees who participated in the workshop; Hopefully I was able to transfer some of my enthusiasm about LaTeX to you during the session :). Special thanks to Dr. Seagull for…
In the upcoming Summer Dissertation Conference - July 19 - 20, 2012 @ NSU, I will be presentin LATEX / LyX 101 - A Hands-on BYOL Workshop which brings me to the topic of, future of traditional thesis/dissertation as we know it. In the web 2.0 and cloud-computing era, the writing of classic dissertation has also evolved to…
I spoke to The San Francisco .NET Developers User Group last week on the topic of Practical Web Application Security with ASP.NET / MVC. Following are the some of the links from my talk. For additional links, please see my earlier talk Resources – talk @ 10th Annual SecureIT conference Home/MVC/Overview/Chapter 7. Security Security Extensibility in ASP.NET 4 (This…
An interesting beginners talk for machine learning enthusiasts. Ever tried to use a regular expression to parse an unstructured street address? This talk is an introduction to a few machine learning algorithms and some tips for integrating them where they make the most sense and will save you the most headaches. Hilary Mason - Machine…
Recently I have been reading few research papers by Dr. Szymon Jaroszewicz, co-author of "Scalable pattern mining with Bayesian networks as background knowledge", "Fast discovery of unexpected patterns in data, relative to a bayesian network" and "Interestingness of frequent itemsets using Bayesian networks as background knowledge". The papers stated that "A copy of the source code is available…