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June 29, 2007
Week 25
It seemed like a week of meetings, or maybe that's just because it started out that way- meeting with Ross first thing Monday morning for a pre-meeting to go over our alpha release of the edsmart entrance application. We needed to make a couple last minute mods before meeting with Kimber and Karen. They are now testing and making running lists of anything that needs to be fixed/update/improved or otherwise worked on. Unfortunately, the entrance app that Ross and I have been working on is a completely autonomous database (data cannot be access from original edsmart program). This means that since they are currently trying to input and extract data from edsmart to use, testing this new application will need to be further down on their list, which always pushes off time lines. We're still doing our best and attempting to pull reports when needed directly out of the tables.
Wednesday I watched a live webinar I signed up for two weeks ago on the top 10 web hacks of 2006 and what they mean for 2007, hosted by Jeremiah Grossman and sponsored by whitehatsec. It was quite eye opening and really gave me some great ideas to make my web apps more secure as well as great resources to keep myself updated with the current vulnerabilities, including Cross Site Scripting Attacks: XSS Exploits and Defense book as well as some great follow up reading web sites. I'll be getting a copy of that webinar to hopefully go through again and gain more information then the first time. They did blaze through quite a bit of info.
Thursday I had an informal programmers meeting to go over a few broad issues that turned out pretty good. We hope to continue with the meetings, including all programmers within UCS. We hope it will end up being very beneficial to all, including the campus at large. You'll be seeing great things coming out of UCS very soon, I'm sure!
As usual, throughout the week was the perpetual edsmart project and the usual emergency fixes that always seem to pop up and pull you away. I've also got the chronic backlog of projects in my inbox to follow up on as well.
Posted by runyans at June 29, 2007 4:24 PM