Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
If you are googling trying to find a good way to insert C# code in LyX, this is where you'd probably end up. MaPePer has provided a very good solution; I have modified it slightly (hiding tabs and removing comments) and following is illustration on how to use it in LyX. First thing you'd need is a…
Makes for a "light" sunday morning reading list 🙂 P&P -Data Access for Highly-Scalable Solutions: Using SQL, NoSQL, and Polyglot Persistence NoSQL Performance & Failover benchmarking Ultra-High Performance NoSQL Benchmarking: Analyzing Durability and Performance Tradeoffs "Quick" NoSQL Comparison: Measuring performance and failover of Aerospike, Cassandra, Couchbase, and MongoDB NoSQL Failover Characteristics: Aerospike, Cassandra, Couchbase,…
Threat modeling and diversion tactics; a good high level overview on software security. There are only a handful of threat modeling approaches in the industry which are difficult to implement due to the subjective guidelines. Our training session will focus on best practices and a hands-on approach that will provide attendees a better understanding of…
I spoke to LA C# User group last night in Pasadena on the topic of Web Application Security with OWASP. The slide deck of my talk can be downloaded from here. LA C# OWASP Presentation Links from the talk follow. Open Web Application Security Project IIS Lockdown tool Configuring SSL on IIS7 Disabling the directory browing…
After taking 70-486 - Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications couple of weeks ago, I decided to take the final exam 70-487 - Developing Windows Azure and Web Services last week to finish my MCSD certification. Following are the set of notes I used along with MCT material which may help those preparing for the exam. The topic-by-topic breakdown…
After the 70-480 Programming HTML5 and CSS 3 Exam, I finally got around to taking 70-486 - Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications which gets me 2/3 towards the destination for MCSD: Web Applications. Following are the set of notes I used along with MCT material which may help those preparing for the exam. The topic-by-topic breakdown is courtesy of…
Exploring Distributed in DDoS - Social Engineering aspects of an 'Anonymous' style DDoS attack Recorded 24 April 2013. Abstract: With the proliferation of social media and mobile devices to masses, protecting against distributed denial of service attacks has become an arduous technical challenge. Even though we expect much more sophistication, research reports show that majority…
Writing High Quality Code in C# from Svetlin Nakov This is an excellent presentation by Svetlin Nakov of Telerik which I thoroughly enjoyed and decided to share it via my blog. Following is the abstract. The author introduces the principles of high-quality programming code construction during the software development process. The quality of the…
I recently spoke to 11th SecureIT conference on "OWASP Web Services Security - Securing your Service Oriented Architecture". This annual event was hosted by UC San Bernardino at Sheraton Fairplex Hotel. This SecureIT Conference conference provides focus and opportunities to higher education staff meeting the challenges of providing a secure information technology environment for campus communities. The…
Last night I had the privilege to listen to Dr. John Preskill in Beckman Auditorium here at Caltech with fellow Quantum aficianado David Lazar. John Preskill is the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech. This was definitely one of the most accessible lecture on this topic of general audience which was very well received. Dr. Preskill is definitely a teacher and…