everburning

It’s now official. As of August 5th I’ll be an employee of AideRSS doing development work. Stacy and I are taking a week in between my finishing at Security Compass and my start at AideRSS to take a vacation which will be nice.

This also means that we’ll be moving to Waterloo in the near future. We just need to sell the condo and find a house to live in over there. It’ll be nice to get out of the city and back to Waterloo again.

Working for Security Compass was a great experience and all the guys there are fantastic, along with knowing a lot about computer security. The work was a lot of fun, who can complain with getting paid to break things? But, with everything good comes the bad. In this case, the travel. As you probably know, I’ve spent a lot of time on the road the last few months. The amount of flying and hotel starts to wear you down and it’s doubly so when you’re married. So, I decided it was time to change.

On the amusing side, my last flight back from Seattle I qualified for Air Canada Elite status. Of course I won’t be flying very much but I’m Elite for 2008 and 2009, heh.

Now you know why we went out and purchased a car.

Security Compass released two beta tools in the Exploit-Me series. These tools, XSS-Me and SQL Inject-Me, are Firefox plugins to help test for security vulnerabilities.

XSS-Me does Cross Site Scripting (XSS) injection against the forms on a page. This will send a predefined set of attack strings against the website to see if the site reflects the content back to the user.

SQL Inject-Me is a tool to do some SQL injection tests against an application. It will send a series of SQL commands and attempt to make the database return an error message to the user.

Anyway, check out the Exploit-Me site and give the tools a try. If you find any issues you can report them to bugs at securitycompass.com.

Oh, and as an added bonus, the tools are being released under the GPL v3. We’re working on getting bug tracking, mailing lists and all that other infrastructure setup for the project.

Apparently, no-one shot me again. I’m still kicking. A little behind on the blogging so I’m not going to catch up. I’ll just skim the last month. Owen and Natalies wedding was a lot of fun. I left my position at TrekLogic for one at Security Compass which should be interesting.

There have been some books, some movies, some video games. Other events, trials and tribulations. But, that’s the condensed version.

Hopefully things are slowing down a bit and I’ll be blogging regular like again but we’ll see.

We’ve been back from Cuba for a week. Man it sucks going back to work after a vacation.

Cuba was a lot of fun. We didn’t do too much, sat by the pool, read some books. We didn’t leave the resort at all. Exactly what we wanted.

I’d like to go back at some point. Probably to another resort. The one we were at was pretty good. Food was excellent and it had a layout that felt big but everything was close together. My only complaint from the trip was that the service was bit slow. Other then that everything was good.

I’ve, of course, been swamped with work since I got back. A couple deadlines are looming so I’m not sure if I’ll have time to get any photos up or not. We’ll see.

Along with work I’ve been doing some Enlightenment stuff. I’ve been trying to split the Ewl_Text widget apart as it was pretty big. It’s a bit of a pain in the ass as there is a lot of code in there but it’s coming along. I’ve also been doing some work on the new website. I setup a planet for Enlightenment and got ViewVC installed and running.

Well I’ve been lax in my updating again. I’ve got a good excuse. I’ve been busy. Bloody busy.

Lets see, where to begin. Stacy and I bought a condo the other weekend. We’ll finalize everything on the 23rd of November. (That’s when we get possession.) This should give us about a week to do any painting before we move on the 30th. We’re still in the process of getting movers, neither one of us wants to have to move all our crap ourselves. It’s going to be a hectic few weeks getting everything packed and arranged.

Hm, I guess next up is work. I’d been offered a job at another company, which I subsequently turned down. Was a bit of a shit storm at work. Everything is good now. I’ve moved more to focus on migration tools which is what I want to do. A lot of my other projects, as much as possible, have been transitioned off to other people. It’s nice to drop the baggage every now and then. So that’s good. Work’s actually at the point where I sit down, start working and, what feels like 30 seconds later, it’s time to go home.

I’ve finally taken my Amsterdam pictures off my camera. (You’re seeing one of theme in the post icon.) They turned out pretty well. A bunch are blurry. I really, really, need a camera with auto-stabilization, or something. All in all, I like em. As usual, if I ever get a gallery setup…

Movies, movies, I think I’ve seen two since I last posted. Borat and Flags of our Fathers. Both were really good movies. I wasn’t expecting much from Borat, I haven’t seen the show it’s based on but, I laughed, then I quoted a bit. The guys I went with all grew Borat style mustaches. I think the best part of the evening is when the bar tender (we went for drinks afterwards) asked one of the guys ‘Are you in a mustache club?’.

Lets see, thats the condo, the job, movies. Ah, right. Been poking at EWL again, as usual. Did a bunch of work on the Ewl_Text widget to hopefully make it faster. Ended up simplifying the code in a few places which is nice. Should also make it easier for RbdPngn to integrate his skiplist work once it’s complete.

I picked up Ratchet: Deadlocked about a year ago. Didn’t really play it then (according to the save file, 1.5hrs). Popped it in the other day and have been pleasantly surprised. It’s quite fun to run around and blow shit up with ridiculously sized weapons. 11 days to the Wii.

That’s it for now, I’ve got to get some sleep. I’ll try to post more regular like in the future. I swear.