Thanks to everyone that came along tonight to hear my talk on Google Mapplets at the Adobe User Group. The discussion went beyond Google Maps and Mapplets, but also included Street View and other mashups and location based services. For those who are unfamiliar with Google Mapplets, they are small applications that run within Google [...]
Due to a cancellation of one of the speakers at the Melbourne Adobe User Group meeting, I gave a quick talk on Chumby. For those that don’t already know about Chumby, it’s a wi-fi, always-on, low end consumer device that runs Linux as its operating system and Flash Lite 3.0 for it’s applications. It’s a [...]
For anyone interested in web technologies, I’ll be doing a talk tonight on Microformats at the Melbourne Adobe User Group. My talk will follow another presentation on Adobe AIR.
“After a quick discussion of the Adobe MAX Conference, a presentation will show you how you can convert HTML/Javascript, or Flash, or Flex into Adobe AIR. Afterwards [...]
Thanks for everyone that came along to my presentation titled “Insecurity 2.0 - Securing Next Generation and Rich Internet Applications”. The feedback was excellent and the discussions were very interesting.
I’ve reworded this post to clear up some confusion.
Part of the talk covered the idea of “malicious mashups” where we explored the possibility of mashups being [...]
I’ll be presenting “Overview of Adobe Apollo” to the Adobe User Group in Melbourne on Thursday 19th April 2007, you can read details about the meeting on their website.
Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, [...]
Yet another OSDC conference has come and gone. It was a great chance to meet lots of cool people and learn stuff at the same time. Again, this local event reinforces the fact of how much talent there is in our own back yard. Thanks to everyone that attended my presentation on Web Application Security, [...]
Thanks to all that attended my presentation on Monitoring with Nagios at the OSDC 2005 conference. You can download the slides from “Monitoring Anything and Everything with Nagios” here.
I’ve also just uploaded my first pre-release copy of a new free eBook called “The Nagios Book”. The book walks through setting up a Nagios server from [...]
A few people have requested this after a recent talk I presented on SEO for the Macromedia Users of Victoria.
Below is an example of an email requesting an inbound link. Keep in mind that this method isn’t as successful as picking up the phone and calling webmasters directly, however some people might still find it [...]
Thanks to everyone that attended the 2005 AUUG Digital Pest Symposium, it was a great chance to network and exchange ideas.
My presentation focused on understanding and combatting Spyware. If you’re after the URL’s, here they are:
http://www.trendmicro.com
http://www.symantec.com
http://www.securityfocus.com
http://isc.sans.org
http://www.cert.org
http://www.auscert.org.au
http://www.microsoft.com
http://www.definitivesolutions.com (BHO Demon)
I also gave a talk on System Monitoring for Network Security using Nagios and other Open Source Tools, [...]
