Submitted by Dale on October 16, 2006 - 3:52pm
At the September CIPS Security Special Interest Group meeting Robert Hawk spoke on patch management. A lot of what Robert had to say was pure project management and governance principals applied to the security domain. The value of Robert
Submitted by Dale on October 15, 2006 - 11:03pm
Last week my full time customer facing technical support position wound down. The company is closing their Vancouver office in a consolidation move. The timing of the lay-off is excellent for me. I've been exploring new career options, and this allows me to do so without the distraction of a day job as well as giving me a small safety net.
Although a generally a happy time, there are regrets. The team I worked in was awesome, and I'm going to really miss everyone. Quite surprising when you consider I worked the 10pm to 6am shift and seldom interacted with them face-to-face! (The day-walkers called my night shift partner and I the "Vampire Squad")
Submitted by Dale on October 1, 2006 - 7:06pm
The last Drupal Vancouver meet up proved an interesting buffet of different things. I didn't take notes, but here is a list of things still lingering in my brain:
- DrupalCon Brussels Review, including:
- discussions of new Drupal 5 features
- the Drupal Association
- Walkah's presentation explaining the infamous Pants module
- Massoud presented an overview of his Asterix billing module
- New Drupal sites released into the wild
- “Stump the Drupal Ninjas” - A Q&A session of “how would I
implement function/feature x”
Joking aside, these are
incredibly useful. Drupal is so feature rich and new modules are
coming on the scene regularly enough I always walk away with some
useful tidbits of information, whether I'm looking for them or not. Some of the topics:
- A discussion of online payment options
- Mapping options
- Forum options
This meeting was one of our longer ones, with discussion taking us late enough there wasn't time
to adjourn to other environs.
Submitted by Dale on September 27, 2006 - 3:35am
The next meeting of the Vancouver Python/Zope Users Group is:
Date: | Tuesday October 3, 2006 |
Time: | 7:30pm to 8:30pm |
Location: | Uniserve, Suite 1550, 1055 West Hastings Street, Vancouver [Map] |
Topics: |
Programming OS X with Python - Dethe Elza |
Submitted by Dale on September 20, 2006 - 5:02pm
Among the many ISO standards there's a set focused on security and governance, with ISO17799 being the big one. Wikipedia's article is here: ISO/IEC 17799. Just received notice that a local security user group is being formed for security knowledge sharing of the ISO kind.
Full announcement follows.
Submitted by Dale on September 20, 2006 - 4:45pm
Well, I tried to get the Talk Like a Pirate module in for yesterday but it didn't come off. Next year.
Submitted by Dale on September 16, 2006 - 3:07am
Submitted by Dale on September 16, 2006 - 2:37am
I have no one to blame but myself. When a device the size of a
thumb holds many, many, many hours of work, backing up is good
practice and cheap insurance. I know this. Knowledge and action
aren't one and the same.
I'd gotten into a great rhythm with my thumb drive. It was
just so
easy working across multiple computers; being able to write on the
notebook when I was out and about and seamlessly taking the work back
to my desktop, and vice versa. Losing the thumb drive knocked the
wind out of me, metaphorically at least. And I was bummed.
Submitted by Dale on August 11, 2006 - 5:22am
Submitted by Dale on August 10, 2006 - 6:26am
Everything is back! Also upgraded to the latest Drupal security release.
I have a set of backup/restore shell scripts for making command line backups of the database and file system easy. One command and less than 60 seconds later my site is backed up or restored. It makes site moves and safety backups for upgrades extremely easy. I contributed them to Drupal project there: Backup and restore using bash shell scripts.
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