Bill Gates & Paul Allen Reunite to Reprise Classic Early Microsoft Photograph - You've got to see this!

Photo of Bill Gates & Paul Allen of Microsoft (1981) From GeekWire

Paul Allen was at his Living Computer Museum, in Seattle two days ago and it appears he ran into his old business partner and Harvard drop-out pal, Bill Gates.

It seems Bill Gates and Paul Allen decided to do a reprise of the classic photo of the two of them in the early hay-days of Microsoft (see photo after the jump...) :

KCS Consortium Presentation: Success & Challenges with Dell's Global Knowledge Centered Support (KCS) Programs

KCS - Lessons Learned from Application Support

This is a presentation delivered to the Consortium for Service Innovation during a workshop held in September of 2007 in Dallas, TX with ATG (now Oracle). It highlighted the early successes and challenges encountered by the early adopters in Application Support & Services while implementing Knowledge Centered Support (KCS) and the lessons learned and shared as adoption of KCS grew throughout Dell.

Great new book - "Writing Secure Code" by David C. LeBlanc and Michael Howard

"Writing Secure Code" by David C. LeBlanc and Michael Howard.

I just got my copy of "Writing Secure Code" by David C. LeBlanc and Michael Howard. 

So far, I'm only at the chapter on Threat Modelling, but it has proven to be quite an enlightning read.

I heard about it in a course I took in training called, aptly enough, Developing Secure Software. 

It's a required course for all developers and testers at Dell which is where I am currently employed. It was presented in a lab format by a representative from St. Edwards University's Professional Education Center. 

The thing that really pulled me into the class was that it covered development of web apps, C/S database apps, and code in both C# and Java.
They walked us through both the apps in question, the techniques used to compromise said apps, and even the code / technical solutions to the vulnerabilities. Definitely the coolest training I've been able to attend to date here.

If you write and/or test code, even in non-Microsoft environments, you should check out this book. I got my copy on amazon for $7.95, so it's not even a particularly expensive learning tool. Don't you just LOVE a good sale ;) ?

There's a Kindle Edition, and a Paperback available.  Links to purchase them from Amazon included for your convenience.