November 2011
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Book Review: A Bug Hunter's Diary by Tobias Klein;...
Summary A Bug Hunter’s Diary describes the technical details of how the author identified and analyzed software security bugs. It doesn’t get into exploiting the bugs because, as the author points out at the end of every chapter, it’s illegal to publish exploits in Germany. I expected a light treatment based on the cute title and cover, but it was mostly C code,...
Nov 23rd
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Book Review: Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef...
Summary Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef describes a rationale and an approach to developing automated tests for system infrastructure. It includes an explanation of behavior-driven development, and detailed instructions for setting up a testing system using cucumber-chef on EC2. Audience Surprisingly little time was spent talking about cucumber-chef and how to use it. The majority of...
Nov 10th
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