We Remember

I hope you are using this day to reflect on how lucky we all are to be alive and free. It is sad that this day seems to become less and less about remembering the sacrifice that was given to us by those in the services, and more about "another day off". While I am alive, that will not happen with my family. To my fellow servicemen .... Chimo!

Finished Writing Secure Code yesterday, and moved on to start reading .NET Framework Security. Where the first book is about how to write secure code in general, this new one is about how to do it with the .NET platform. It gets down and dirty about the inner workings of the.NET security framework, and is NOT for the faint of heart. Looks like I am going to be learning a lot from this book.

If asked which book to recommend, it would be Writing Secure Code. The reason is a Unix developer can still gain a lot from that book, as the material presented can still apply. Overflows are overflows. Canonicalization is still just that, even if its fired against an Apache server. etc etc. You should buy this book. Period. This .NET security book is not for the faint of heart. If you intend on actually applying what you learn, then you really need to be prepared to "get into security". There is no half-vast way of doing it. Either you do, or you don't. There is no middle ground. What you learn can be applied to writing better quality software designed with security in mind with the tools .NET provide. You WILL find you will be writing more code to deal with security, but that can be offset with languages like C# that can minimize the amount of work it takes. I am just getting into it... but it looks pretty good.

Well, in a few hours the Rememberance Day services are going to begin. I need to go get ready and take my daughter down to the cenotaph. TTYL