Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
Read the following "10 Immutable Laws of Security" on technet recently, thought they are definitely worth sharing; old but worthy gems. Law #1: If a bad guy can persuade you to run his program on your computer, it's not your computer anymore Law #2: If a bad guy can alter the operating system on your…
During my recent Borders’s-browsing, I came across Richard Monson-Haefel’s book, 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know with the tag line, “Collective Wisdom from the Experts”. The book is interesting and even though it falls short in providing details, gives a good overview of architectural principles. Mind you, this is not a book with case…
Helpful links in getting MVC to work on IIS 5.0 Using ASP.NET MVC on IIS 5 http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/dorony/archive/2007/12/15/using-asp-net-mvc-on-iis-5.aspx and if you encounter the same error as I did ASP.NET 2.0 Application on IIS 5 Resulting in Error (aspnet_wp.exe (PID: XXXX) stopped unexpectedly.) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/233478/asp-net-2-0-application-on-iis-5-resulting-in-error-aspnetwp-exe-pid-xxxx-s
Last night I spoke to Orange County SQL user group on SQL Azure, Microsoft’s cloud based relational database. SQL Azure, dubbed as re-launch of SQL Data Services (SDS) (and later SQL Services) is a cloud-based service from Microsoft offering data storage capabilities for Azure Services Platform. In the talk I discussed the challenges of putting…
If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me this question, I would have enough money to buy Trevor Hastie's The Elements of Statistical Learning Second Edition :). Anyways, here is a good explanation from Algorithm's of the intelligent web on what is so naïve about naïve Bayesian? "This is the calculation of…
ACO, a multidisciplinary PhD Program in Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will be streaming live lectures by four prominent computer scientists. Live web streaming available at no charge. Theory Day Celebrating 50th Anniversary of Foundations of Computer Science and 20th Anniversary of the ACO Program at Georgia Tech Held in…
Paul Sheriff will be speaking to our user group Wednesday night on Debugging tips and tricks. With his interactive and easy to understand presentation style, his sessions are highly recommended. Details below. Debugging Tips & Tricks with Paul Sheriff Wed 21st Oct 2009 Abstract: If you have not really dug into the VS.NET debugger, then…
Tomorrow I will be speaking to the Southbay.NET users group in Torrance. Following is the abstract of my talk. For details and directions, please see the link below. Web Application Testing using WATIN Thursday, October 8th, 2009 at 6:30 PM Web application testing is a tough task especially in the ASP.NET web forms environment where…
Free Developer Training for Windows 7 Developers in LA Area. "Jump-start your Windows 7 experience by joining some of the top Windows 7 engineers, including Mark Russinovich, Landy Wang, and Arun Kishan, for an intense, high quality boot camp. Whether you are looking to create more performant, reliable, or secure applications, or you are an…
A while ago I did a blog post on WCF-ASMX interoperability which came out from an experience I had in service collaboration with a partner. In a recent conversation with Jeff Bergman, a friend and co-worker, there was a question of WCF or not to WCF on a project which requires similar service interop and…