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Learning Cocoa with other backgrounds

January 28th, 2010 1 comment

From a StackOverflow posting.

When I teach Cocoa, I always ask the class what their background is in. This generally tells me what they need to unlearn before they’re ready for Cocoa. Here are some of the things I’ve found that different groups need to unlearn. Read more…

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How to become a security domain expert?

January 8th, 2010 No comments

From a posting on StackOverflow.

There are many areas of security expertise, so it highly depends on what your want your career path to look like. At the bits-and-bytes end there is penetration testing and “security research” (which is often as much “cataloging of programming bugs” as actual research). At the more strategic end there is “risk management” which often spends much of its time in non-technical considerations like appropriate budgets, education and response.

Blah, blah, blah, but how do you get started, right? Read more…

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gotoAndPlay

January 8th, 2010 1 comment

Now that we’re past the New Year, and I have a chance to reorganize my schedule, I’m working up my next series of postings. While you’re all patiently waiting, go read gotoAndPlay. I started out helping Geri on some layer drawing questions on StackOverflow, and have really gotten interested in his efforts to make his apps really beautiful.

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