Happy Father's Day

Asynchrounous Programming Introduction

Coming soon..
Just reminding myself that i have a pending post on asynchronous programming in .net tonight..Just working on some samples at the moment. :D It's exciting!!

Elvis Presley - My Favourite Song..

 

A little less conversation.. The following video is from the movie in which he has acted. (Live a little,Love a little). Funny video though..

Vedic Metal - The beginning of a new era...

Agni - Mrityunjaya Tandav. I've always admired this song in the context of Vedic Metal. It's beautifully composed..

Below is a composition of mine called "Rudra Tandava".

This song interprets the dance of Lord Shiva..The depiction of cosmic energy being transmitted from the sun to a particle , from this particle to another particle and so on, as the sun rises...As a result , all particles which transmit the light energy start vibrating..This was an inspiration from the book called 'The Tao of Physics'.. I do not want to add more..I've probably described 2 percent of what Rudra Tandava stands for...it's for the viewer to experience and find out..

Software Engineering with VSTS

 

 

 

I'm reading this book called 'Software Engineering with Visual Studio Team System' by Sam Guckenheimer. To say the least, It's not letting me sleep. This book looks tiny though but is humongous in it's content and specifically the application lifecycle management automation through VSTS. VSTS is the best thing to happen to MS technology developers for a long time.. The best part is how the book guides you with Agile methodologies and CMMI practises using VSTS.

Some Links..

The Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite

Video of Sam Guckenheimer talking about VSTS

Software Development methodologies and Visual Studio Team System

The interesting thing which caught my attention was security testing through VSTS. Sam talks about using a fault model base on vulnerabilites observed on other systems, and a series of attacks to exploit the vulnerabilites. He also gives references to published attack patterns which are helpful in identifying the vast majority of vulnerabilites. His reference includes James A. Whittaker and Herbert H. Thompson's book, 'How to break software security: Effective Techniques for Security Testing (Boston: Addison-Wesley,2004). (which has around 19 attack patterns that are standard approaches to hacking systems).
Now, There's a lot of stuff for security from microsoft, for instance the trustworthy computing initiative, SD3 and SDL , Security best practises etc..
I'm wondering if there was an SDL approach inside Visual Studio Team System.. (may be as a part of ALM), What an invaluable feature it would have been..!!