Twitter

If you are not using, you should. Follow people related to the technologies you want to use or are using. It's my main source of news regarding the latest technologies. The great thing about twitter is that you can just send out questions to other users directly.

Github

Create a Github account and place your personal projects there, even if they are experiments with new technologies that you are learning. Put your projects there even if they are not finished, just code a project with a new technology to try it out.  This shows recruiters/companies:

• What tech you are playing with; and
• You like to learn and try new things;

Also, try to contribute to one or two Open Source projects.Even if it's just improving documentation, answering questions other users have. This can help you understand projects and the code a bit better.

Codeschool, tutorials, (...)

Have you done Codeschool or other tutorials? get the code on Git, and get that knowledge on the CV, e.g:

• Beginner knowledge on NodeJS, AngularJS, Rails.

Even if it's basic, it shows that you already ventured, like to learn stuff, and have some knowledge that can be used.

Also, Check stackoverflow.com, one of the best places to ask questions, and find solutions.

Try out stuff :D

What to learn?

Technologies / Frameworks with high demand internationally?

• Javascript
• AngularJS
• NodeJS (You see the trend?)
• Ruby, Ruby on Rails,
• Go-Lang,
• MongoDB,
• HTML5,
• Mobile Development (HTML5/Native)

Hope that helps the next software engineers :)

Create a name

Use 1 and 2 to make a name in the community, use stackoverflow.com, go to conferences.

Is University enough?

No. Universities teach you the basis, how to think, how to learn by your self. You need to study outside of that environment, create your own play projects, try to clone something if you don't have an idea.

What next?

I'll follow up this blog post with resources that you can use to learn and deploy your projects :D

• Using x86 hardware acceleration on Android images ver. 10 and 15+ (2.3.3 and 4.0.2+)
• Using GPU OpenGL acceleration for interface rendering on images ver 14+ (Android 4.x)

By using this option, you are "using your native processor" instructions, taking advantage of your hardware.

1 - Open the Android SDK Manager and install 2 packages:

• Intel x86 Atom System Image
• Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator (HAXM)

Linux

You need to install KVM

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/Installation
• http://developer.android.com/tools/devices/emulator.html#accel-vm

Windows

• http://developer.android.com/tools/devices/emulator.html#accel-vm

Mac

Open the HAXM Installation file from adt-bundle-mac-x8664/sdk/extras/intel/haxm-macosxr02.dmg and install the PKG.

If you have a CaseSensitive File System you will get an error message "VT/NX not present".

• Right-click on IntelHAXM_1.0.1.mpkg -> Show Package Contents
• Contents -> Packages -> intelhaxm.pkg

ALL

2 - After the driver is installed for you environment, close Eclipse

3 - Setup the new Emulator - Open the Android Virtual Device Manager
CPU : Intel Atom x86
Emulation Options : Use Host GPU

4 - Start your device!

Kaiy iPhone 5

The following picture show the details of the Case and Screen. The case is a great copy of the original iPhone5, however, the screen is not Retina (1136×640, 370dpi), It's 854x480, 240dpi. Look with attention and you can see the pixels. Another thing that jumps out, while having the system language in English, are the Chinese characters on the screen. The excuse that I eard for this, was the device was acquired in China and he had some problems with some apps, a system restore would resolve that... (Yeah right...). Apple is known to worry about details, if this would happen on a real device, that would be a serious flaw.

So, lets get in to some details, quick info from Device:

• Processor: ARMv7 Processor rev 10 (v7l)
• Memory: 483796 kB
• Screen: 854x480, 240dpi
• Android : 4.0.1

The following gallery shows various screens, Home, iTunes, Settings, Maps, Siri, Unlock, Clock, iCloud.

As you can see, once you start moving around in the Apps you see something is really wrong.

• iTunes "for android" ?
• iCloud -> add a Google or Corporate account?
• Siri is an app on your Home Screen and in chinese?

Considering the quality of a fake iPhone4 I saw 1 year ago, this device is a big leap forward in terms of quality and responsiveness. However there is still a big gap until it can be a great fake. The issue I see with this fake is that it does fool people, I saw some users really believing this was a real iPhone5.

You can find the System dump, outputs from DDMS and dumpsys, and full resolution screens at the following share: https://cloudpt.pt/link/79d971b3-6ffa-40f3-803d-f24b3835afe6/fakeiphone5 .

This was the information that I was able to get on the short time I had with the device. Hope you guys liked it ;)

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When we're gone, all that's left of us is what we've madeThe things you and I make may not leave a visible footprint on the Earth, but everything we make takes up space. Create noise. Competes for atention. What do we want to spend more time with? What do we want to shape us?

Wilson Miner - When We Build from Build on Vimeo.

You can find more information about this presentation at Wilson Miner's Page

On this example, I'm going to create a VM to work with Vagrant and it will be based on Debian 6 AMD64 ( Debian-6.0.5-amd64-netboot ).

Requirements:

• Ruby 1.9.2 - I recommend you install it using RVM

Lets start!

First step, cloning the repository:

git clone https://github.com/jedi4ever/veewee.git cd veewee gem install bundler bundle install

In the veewee/templates folder, you can find a list of all available templates for your virtual machines.

$ veewee vbox define 'debian605' 'Debian-6.0.5-amd64-netboot' The basebox 'debian605' has been succesfully created from the template 'Debian-6.0.5-amd64-netboot' You can now edit the definition files stored in definitions/debian605 or build the box with: veewee vbox build 'debian605'

With the template for your VM ready, you can edit the installation files in the definitions/debian605 folder. When you ready, just the "build" command and wait:

veewee vbox build 'debian605'

This should take around 10-15minutes depending on your machine and connection.

Veewee also as Tests, to verify you VM.

veewee vbox validate 'debian605'

After this, your VM is ready to be exported

vagrant basebox export 'debian605'

And now you have a box ready to use with Vagrant.

Jean Baudrillard, 1983

White-house goes open-source

Drupal installation profile powering We The People at petitions.whitehouse.gov

http://pineapple.io

Pineapple is a massive community-driven resource aggregator for designers and developers that strives to make it extremely EASY to find what you're looking for

Security Related

DEFCON 18: How I Met Your Girlfriend 1 2 3

3 Part presentation "How I Met Your Girlfriend": The discovery and execution of entirely new classes of Web attacks in order to meet your girlfriend.

Pwn Pi

Don't doubt the power of a Raspberry Pi - A Pen Test Drop Box Distro using the Raspberry Pi

Videos from the Just4Meeting

Check in the PTCoreSec group page, the videos of various presentations done at the Just4Meeting 2012. For a good laugh, check the ones from Mike Kemp.

Thanks @hschot for showing me this video ;)

Sam Simmons is one of the most daring and unconventional comics in Australia if not the world. Completely original and vastly absurd, he has one foot firmly planted into the soils of reality, and the other rooted deep into the psyche of being silly

@youtube

http://vimeo.com/22053820

http://vimeo.com/22053820

• To Build Your Business, Smash Your Silos
• On Working Remotely
• To Get To The Root Of A Hard Problem, Just Ask “Why” Five Times
• What Startups Can Learn From Sun Tzu’s The Art Of War
• An inside look at Switzerland’s seriously ambitious startup scene
• http://www.humbledmba.com/public-speaking-for-normal-people

See on Youtube: Aperture: Lab Ratt

Vagrant is a Ruby App to help with Virtual Machines (VMs). With it, you can share pre-configured VMs among users, allowing for a unified development environment to be used between them.

Why is this important?

This avoids that each developer installs extra software, library, extensions on their local machines, since the VM has all the software and extras that the project will need. This way we can avoid conflicts with different versions, software, etc.

So Vagrant is a Virtual Machine?

Vagrant is not a Virtual Machine solution, e.g., Virtualbox, VMware. It is a “helper”, a automated solution to interact easily with VirtualBox from Oracle.

Vagrant will setup a new VM based on the pre-configured Box that is specified on the Vagrantfile. The user does not need to open VirtualBox and configure the system, vagrant will deal with it.

Installing Vagrant

To use Vagrant, you need Ruby and Virtualbox.

1 - Install Ruby. (If you on Mac OS X, there should be no problem);

2 - Get VirtualBox and the VirtualBox Extension Pack from virtualbox.org;

3 - Get the latest vagrant installation package from vagrantup.com;

Your First Box

Following the example from Vagrant:

$ vagrant box add base http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid32.box
$ vagrant init $ vagrant up

And there you have it, a Ubuntu Lucid 32 Bits VirtualMachine ready to go.

User & password = "vagrant" .

Now you can SSH to it or open Virtualbox and you will see it there.

For more community created boxes ready to use, check out vagrantbox.es

More tips on using vagrant will follow...

Information Security has been one of the most increasing concerns worldwide. Everyday new attacks and counter attacks emerge, making it impossible for professionals to keep themselves up to date.

From 6th to 8th July 2012

The J4M third edition intends to convene busy IT and Information Security Professionals with very little time to learn new technologies or just deepen their knowledge on IT security tools and techniques. With this in mind we gathered a group of hand picked internationally renowned professionals to share their expertise with all participants through training sessions, lectures and workshops.

Some of this year speakers:

• Michele Orru´ - Core developers of The BeEF Project
• Michael Kemp - Security Consultant (Xiphos)
• Raoul Chiesa - Member of the ENISA

Check out the event's webpage, maybe we will see each other there ;)

http://www.just4meeting.com