Back to Casablanca. My great friend Chris Foster is here. I am taking some time for myself, and to take her and her friend Kristen around.

     I will not be blogging for few days. When I'm back, there will be quite a few technical topics I will be talking about, and a few poetic texts waiting to be let out...

7/4/2004 8:56:10 PM UTC     

     Friday, Lee Mungai and I had a great day speaking at DevDays Mauritius. here is the content I presented (sorry for the delay).

(0) Trends and Vision.ppt (1.54 MB)

(1) Threats and Defenses.ppt (1.72 MB)

(2) Rebuild the puzzle.ppt (1.69 MB)

DevDays_Demos.zip (257.15 KB)

6/28/2004 6:26:59 AM UTC     

   Wednesday, coming back from the Bowling in Area 51, I was the accomplice of Nasser recording a conversion that took place on the bus somewhere around 12:30 AM.The main voice that is on the recording is that of Serge Lenbet. Off course the rest of us, as geeky as we are, were discussing much more technical subject like distributed security and handheld devices used by the mobiles forces...

 Enjoy

6/18/2004 6:55:13 PM UTC     

    Yesterday, after a day in which I spoke on 5 sessions back to back, and then had to sit through the Q&A session (not that I had any energy to actively partcipate). Then, with a heavy security escort (the police took us for some really important people as it sems), we all went a bowling in Area 51.

At the bowling, we had fun and very good food. There were all 6 RDs :

From left to right, one can see Ahmad Badr, Hossam Khalifa, Clemens Vasters, Me,Goksin Bakir and Farhan Muhammad.

6/18/2004 12:40:25 AM UTC     

    This morning, the Pakistan Developer Conference 2004 has started in Karachi. The event is sold out (4000 registered, only 1500 accomodated because of venue size).

    The opening session was attended by many oficials : Chief Minister of Sind, Pakistan Minister of IT, Minister of IT of Sind, Mayor of Karachi, and others. Rafal Lukawiecki did a great keynote on his view of the next decade in IT.

The Mayor of Karachi speaking about the value of IT for the City, and welcoming ecverybody.

   There are 6 RDs speaking at the event (Steven Forte was supposed to be of the party, but couldn't make it because of a blizzard in Alaska. Get Well quick my friend, we miss you over here). The RDs speaking are :

• Clemens Vasters
• Farhan Muhammad
• Goksin Bakir
• Ahmad Badr
• Hossam Khalifa
• myself

6/15/2004 8:28:52 AM UTC     

   Yesterday, I did my "Secure Coding Techniques" talk at DevEssentials in Kansas City. Here is my slide deck (content is more extended than what I talked about). I will be posting the code samples shortly.

6/6/2004 8:22:37 PM UTC