Moving WSUS Server Updates

March 27, 2008

If you’re using Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), there may come a day when you need to move the updates to another drive. Once WSUS has been installed, the WSUS Administration tool doesn’t let you do this, but you can do it using a command line tool called wsusutil found in C:Program FilesUpdate ServicesTools. [...]

Melbourne Flex and AIR Event

January 10, 2008

The local Adobe User Group is canvassing Aussies about the possibility of a Flex event in Melbourne. Adobe Platform Evangelist Danny Dura will be in Melbourne in late January so there is a strong possibility that there will be a Flex/AIR night meeting. The planned date is Tuesday the 29th of January, 2008. You can [...]

Chumby and Flash Lite 3.0 Talk

November 13, 2007

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 [...]

Microformats Talk

October 18, 2007

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. [...]

Open Source Developers’ Conference 2007

October 18, 2007

The Open Source Developers’ Conference 2007 is a conference designed by open source developers, for developers and business people. It covers numerous programming languages across a range of operating systems, and related topics such as business processes, licensing, and strategy. Talks vary from introductory pieces through to the deeply technical. This year, the conference travels [...]

MySQL via JDBC and an Overview of MySQL use in Australia

October 11, 2007

The MySQL User Group is well and truly alive in Melbourne, so make sure you enter this one in your calendars. This months meeting will include a presentation on MySQL via JDBC and an Overview of MySQL use in Australia. For users, administrators and developers using MySQL. Anybody doing anything in this area is welcome [...]

OWASP Australia Security Conference 2008

October 8, 2007

A Call for Papers for the OWASP Australia Security Conference 2008 was posted on the OWASP Australia list today. This event will be the first of its kind in the Asia-Pacific region, so I’m sure it will be an exciting event. The conference will be held in February 2008 on the Gold Coast in sunny [...]

SAGE-AU Victorian Chapter Meeting – “Freebase”

October 4, 2007

SAGE-VIC have been invited to attend the first Freebase user group meeting outside of the US. Since a few SAGE-AU monthly meeting regulars are very interested in going to this event, we have decided that this would be a great opportunity to try something different, meet some new faces and at the same time learn [...]

Spam Open Forum – Part Two

September 19, 2007

Thanks to everyone that came along to the SAGE-AU Victoria Spam Open Forum. Again, it was a very interesting to learn how others are combating the spam problem, as well as listening to the new approaches system administrators are using at the ISP level. I’d like to hold another forum in 6 months or so [...]

Securing Next Generation and Rich Internet Applications

August 20, 2007

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 [...]