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  Book tip: “Security in a Web 2.0+ World: A Standards-Based Approach” by Carlos Solari

  06.15.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I went to hear Carlos Solari speak here in The Netherlands last week, and his message makes a lot of sense: to create truly secure infrastructures, devices and services, all components must be built using the ‘SBD’ or Security By Design principles. Solari and his team put forth the view that to create a fully [...]

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  Published again

  04.14.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  It was just a small piece but it’s always nice to see one of your contributions in print every once in a while, it does wonders for the ego Here’s the article in question (PDF, in Dutch) from Best Practice Magazine for March 2009: page 1, page 2.

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  Fishing for nuts…

  03.12.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Send a balding, bulky IT guy (i.e.: me) to a data center to install his brand spanking new firewalls, then make sure you provide him with the wrong type of rack mounting nuts, and then put the box of spare nuts, screws etc. on the wrong side of a fence…then watch the fun as he starts [...]

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  Teaching once again

  12.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Just last month I started teaching again, and I must say it’s a butt-load of fun to be in front of a class again. I am currently teaching Web design and development at MediaCollege, the Commercial end of the Rotterdam Graphical College (“Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam”), and I am really enjoying myself there. A very professional [...]

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  What a difference a month makes

  10.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Okay, it’s been closer to 7 weeks than a month since I’ve posted anything here, but what the hey, post titles need to pop a little as well So, what is my brilliant excuse now? Well, mainly work to be honest. My first day back at work after my vacation my boss asked me in [...]

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  Dave Packard’s “11 simple rules” – timeless

  08.18.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  You have probably heard of these before, but these 11 management rules presented by HP co-founder Dave Packard in 1958 were very true then and remain so to this day: 1. Think first of the other fellow. This is THE foundation – the first requisite – for getting along with others. And it is the [...]

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