May 23rd, 2008 Anthony Towry
Yesterday was my last day as a full-time .Net developer. I've taken a new position that has more of a focus toward information security. Hopefully I won't be dumping all of my development skills. I'll still continue with research and items that interest me on the home front, but I will likely be focusing much more time toward security/administration/etc.
As a side note, my supervisor gave me a lovely parting gift that any code monkey would be proud to receive:
Fuel for the soul.
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April 8th, 2008 Anthony Towry
Yesterday I attended the mini-launch put on by the Oklahoma City Developer's Group and several sponsors. It was held out at Francis Tuttle Technology Center with an excellent showing of local .Net talent. Read the rest of this entry »
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February 29th, 2008 Anthony Towry
For me, reading blog comments on popular sites is usually somewhat of an exercise in self hate. More often than not it's a drive through the unhelpful. I do love it though when I come across a gem that's truly informative.
I recently had such an experience reading the comments to a SecurityFocus article on the skills required by most individuals to enter the information security field. This article describes the route I've heard the most about. One that involves experience in admin duties or networking.
Grant Bugher of the Perimeter Grid blog had a post covering another route to the information security field. The route he describes and has personally taken pulls heavily from experience in development and writing secure code. This route is crazy interesting to me and I'm glad to see I'm naturally heading down the road he's talking about.
It's really a great post that gives hope to the coder who wants to break into the field. If you're into development and information security check it out. That said, the job boards don't lie and the state of things today do not appear to favor this path.
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November 5th, 2007 Anthony Towry
If you're a .Net developer you're undoubtedly quite familiar with Microsoft's use of Community Technology Previews (CTPs). Yes, we know that these are early releases of what the new hotness will be, but what else? How early? How complete? How reliable? Finally, how do CTPs compare to the traditional idea of a beta product?
The Windows Powershell Team has posted an entry to set us straight and bring some understanding to the developer community.
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