London Perl Workshop

Yesterday, I attended the London Perl Workshop just to see what stuff is the out there in the Perl world. There was some interesting stuff discussed. I should look into more of these details. I badly need a new (used) desktop with Linux. I'm still of the opinion things are better that way for Perl development. I bumped into a couple of acquaintances as well! One of the funny things that happened was someone brought in a cowbell and played it at the end of the workshop and made reference to more cowbell in a Saturday Night Live sketch, which I started playing the video loudly.

I also bought a couple of books Intermediate Perl and Mastering Perl for work.
But I will have a look at it first. ;)

Sans Event in London

This just in, there's a training event offered up by sans in good old London town!

IT Conferences / Exhibitions

IT Conference

Today's keyword is: IT Conference

Whilst looking for random conferences, I spotted this article about a group of hackers wondered into a conference and spoofed a wireless login page that whoever connected downloaded some nice worms and viruses. That's funny. It's always turns out to be an inside job, doesn't it.

Anyhow let's have a look at what good development and security conferences that maybe of
interest:

• Blackhat [Tokyo (Japan) - Oct 23-26, 2007]
• Defcon
• Interop [New York (USA) - Oct 22-26, 2007] [Berlin (Germany) - Nov 6-8, 2007]
• Infosec [London - Apr 22-24, 2008]
• Owasp [San Jose (USA) - Nov 12-15, 2007]
• RSA Conference [London - Oct 22-24, 2007]
• Whatthehack
• Cebit [Hanover - Mar 4-9, 2008]
• Ebay's Developer Day
• Google's Developer Day
• Java One [San Francisco (USA) - May 6-8, 2008]
• Hackday (Not to be confused with the curious Hackaday
• (Yet Another) Perl Conference [Vienna (Austria) - Aug 28-30, 2007
• PHP Conference
• O'Reilly Conference
• British Computing Society
• Linux World [London - Oct 23-24, 2007]
• UK Users and Open Systems User Group
• Open Source Developers Conference [Brisbane (Australia) - Nov 26-29, 2007]
• World Wide Web Conference [Beijing (China) - Apr 21-25, 2008]
• XML Conference [Boston (USA) - Dec 3-5, 2007]
• XML Events Calendar
• Service Oriented Arichtectures Conference [San Francisco (USA) - Nov 12-13, 2007]
• Ajax World [Santa Clara (USA) - Sep 23-26, 2007]
• Ajax Seminar
• MSDN Events and Webcasts

You always join a developer community or too:

• Apple
• BBC
• Ebay
  
• Google
• IBM
• Yahoo
• Developer
• Perl Monks
• Perlmongers

You can always attempt to shape great minds and gatecrash the party at Webdevconf [Bristol - Sep 26, 2007]

Infosec

Well I went to Infosec on Wednesday (Apr 25), which is a more business-oriented internet security exhibition. It's good to know that there are exhibitions out there that are actually interesting and actually have some free goodies.

Anyhow, I got a lot of out this, particularly on SSL VPN systems. It looks like there are quite a plethora of solutions for this and endpoint security is something that simply isn't done that well from what I've seen from the big boys (Cisco and Checkpoint). I was impressed by Sonicwall, Wintegra and Zyxel. All of whom, have some form of patch management, firewall/anti-virus and key logging checking. The cost of which may be lower than the big boys.