We stay up late so that you don't have to.

I guess I'm the anti-Gunderloy.  Historically, like most geeks, I do my best work in the middle of the night.  I might be a “night person,” but I think I just feel a little guilty “playing” on a computer during the day.  If it's sunny, I could be outside running.  If it's raining, I could be cleaning my apartment.  But at night, the only thing I have is late night SportsCenter, girl gone wild infomercials and a couple .NET books I've been meaning to dig into.  And a wide awake brain.

Anyways, I spent the night going through the material for course 2805, which is a security clenic for developers.  My center probably won't be offering it, but if you can get into the class in a CTEC near you it's a sharp little class.  It's pretty much a very slimmed down version of the Writing Secure Code book.  They go over buffer overflows, SQL injection, Cross Site Scripting attacks and some of the methods you can use to prevent them.  Sure, this is probably old hat for some of you, but I also know there are a lot of people who didn't get a classical computer science degree, or has just recently gotten into doing web development.

If you are an MCT, try to get a hold of revision A of the course.  It comes with a bunch of videos and demonstrations that I don't believe comes with the B revision.

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