Patrick Hynds

Code Optimization When Speed is Not The Only Goal

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:20:59 GMT

Patrick Hynds writes "...every single time I talk about optimization to a developer they always jump to the same conclusion. They think I mean speed of execution. I grant that the majority of the time when people talk about optimization that is what they mean, but it is not 100% of the time correct..."

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PDC Last Day

Sat, 17 Sep 2005 18:29:42 GMT

Patrick Hynds writes "...As I write this I am listening to Michael Howard explain the updated threat modeling thinking that sounds quite good. The push in threat modeling is to make it accessible to developers who aren't security gurus. This is a good goal because I can count on one hand the number of clients that I have visited that actually do real threat modeling. As the tools do more and more for us, this is the high value, non automatable activities that we need to see more in the enterprise. This shows that MS is making a push on all fronts. There isn't any complacency that I can find, though ... "

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Phishing and IE7

Sat, 17 Sep 2005 18:28:30 GMT

Patrick Hynds writes "... Phishing attacks have been increasing dramatically and IE 7 goes a long way to allowing you to be much more confident that you aren't being victimized. The dynamic protection service will let you opt in to view a known phishing site so that you are never really prevented from hanging yourself. I think this is a good example of MS keeping pace with the hackers, the problem for many people is that they may not want to move, but security will force the upgrade ultimately.... "

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