First week in Seattle: ✔

Jun 292011
 

Last Sunday, my family and I landed in Seattle airport after more than ten hours traveling.  We then settled in a temporary housing in Kirkland, with a breathtaking view on Washington Lake. So far, we are all excited and happy to be here!

On Monday morning, I was at Microsoft for the New Employee Orientation (employee that relocate have to attend the NEO). It was a pretty good way to adjust my jet lag and understand what I needed to do in order to get my administrative work done. Main blocker for us is still the social security number. In the US without a SSN you cannot get credit. Without credit you cannot get a phone, a car or a house. So our temporary situation is going to last for a few more weeks, not bad considering the current view on the LakeJ.

Being at Microsoft mothership is quite impressive, around 60’000 employees dispatched in numerous building all around the area. This is a radical change from my experience in Zurich (Switzerland) where we were “only” 30 employees.  When I learned that the Dev Center in Zurich was about to close, I decided to stay in the same group (Lync) while extending my responsibilities. This means that I am now testing Lync Response Group and Xmpp Gateway.

The Seattle area is very promising, close to mountains, forest and the Pacific Ocean. I am really looking forward to discovering this area.

 

Introduction to security: the right tools for your needs.

Mar 182009
 

A few weeks ago, I followed a presentation at Digicomp called “From Ethical Hacking to IT-Forensic” presented by Juerg Fischer. The most interesting part I kept from the presentation (that was in German so may explain the little I remember from it :) ) was about the tools and resources useful for the differents phases of the penetration tests. Even of most of these tools and resources might be alredy know, I hope it will still make an usefull list to somone else than me :)

1. Information Gathering

In this early stage the goal is to gather information about people and architecture you might find during your security analysis.

Whois: Domain name lookup
Sam Spade: Integrated network query tool
SearchDNS: Information about an organisation servers
Archive.org: Access old pages from Internet 

2. Vulnerability Analysis

For this second phase, the goal is to gather information regarding vulnerability that correspond to the list you gathered (type of server, OS …) in the first phase.

Secunia: Vulnerability Database
SecurityFocus: Stay informed

3. Router

Getting ride of the router…

NSLOOKUP: Find the IP addresses of a particular computer
DIG: Investigate DNS
dsniff: Suite of tools to sniff network data

4. Firewall

NMAP: Security Scanner
HPING: TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer
Firewalk: Determine what layer 4 protocols a  given IP forwarding device will pass

There are many more tools but with the previous links list you should have already enough to start digging into security related topics :) 

Ahmet

 

Adobe User Group Geneva: June 10 meeting at 6:30 pm

Jun 042008
 

Meeting June 10th
Comme convenu lors de notre dernière rencontre, la date pour la prochaine AUGG à été fixé au mardi 10 juin 2008 à 18:30 chez nos amis des Nomades.

Le programme sortira un peu de l’ordinaire avec une présentation de Florian Egger (PhD in Human-Computer Interaction), qui est Usability & User Experience Consultant, créateur de Telono.com. Il nous fera une présentation sur l’ergo Informatique (l’érgonomie appliqué à l’informatique).

Je ferais la deuxième présentation sur le même sujet mais appliqué aux SWF.

Après les présentations, pizzas et Limoncello :-)

Ahmet

Exams Are Over, I’m Back to my Blog

Sep 122007
 

Finaly it’s over!

Now the worst part: wainting the results…

Ahmet

Exams Again !

Aug 222007
 

I’ll be back september 8!

Ahmet

Aug. 6 1991 – Birth of WWW

Aug 072007
 

[Via Wired], the world wide web becomes publicly available on the internet for the first time. The first announce was made by TBL Aug 6 1991 (not the 7 as written at Wired) on Internet.

Do you know why is it called the World Wide Web?
Here’s the answer of Tim Berners Lee:

Looking for a name for a global hypertext system, an essential element I wanted to stress was its decentralized form allowing anything to link to anything. This form is mathematically a graph, or web. It was designed to be global of course. ( I had noticed that projects find it useful to have a signature letter, as the Zebra project at CERN which started all its variables with “Z”. In fact by the time I had decided on WWW, I had written enough code using global variables starting with “HT” for hypertext that W wasn’t used for that.). Alternatives I considered were “Mine of information” (“Moi”, c’est un peu egoiste) and “The Information Mine (“Tim”, even more egocentric!), and “Information Mesh” (too like “Mess” though its ability to describe a mess was a requirement!).

A screenshot of the worldwideweb (the first GUI browser) later renamed Nexus to avoid the confusion of the client and the abstract space.

Screenshoot of the first GUI browser

Here is a list of people involved in the WWW project:

Please notice the address: 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland :)

Finally here you can see a copy of the first web page published on the Web.

Happy birthday WWW

Ahmet

Job Promotion + We are Hiring!

Jul 282007
 

I’m very excited, there will be a lot of change in the Front End department where I worked as a project manager for the last 5 month.
My direct superior, Marco, who is heading the department, leaves to another job… My director announced my last weekend that I will be taking his places as the head of Front End Department end of September.

We are an old startup from 8 years of experiences, specialized in the recruitment of MBAs and the recruitment of graduate students.

We are willing to hire more skills to our team (Front End and Back End), so if your are located in the near of Geneva/Switzerland read below:

Web Content Writer/Manager

- Manage and maintain both road-mapped and on-the-fly content development for all web of the site.
- Own the entire content lifecycle : creation, refresh, archival, expiration.
- Develop/write compelling content that is keyword-rich and will attract in-bound links and drive conversions.
- Utilize best-practice search engine optimized content development techniques and search automation software to develop and update content based on search engine relevancy results and customer/prospect feedback.

To succeed in this position, we believe you would need :

- Successful professional experience in content writing and editing.
- Preferred candidate will have background in web technology (HTML and Adobe Dreamweaver).

Front End Web Developer

User Interface/HTML, Dreamweaver, Flash, JavaScript

To succeed in this position, we believe you would need :

- Successful professional experience of user interface / front end development.
- Excellent Html skills (W3C Xhtml validity).
- Experience of ActionScript (Adobe Flash).
- Knowledge of JavaScript.
- Experience of using cascading stylesheets.
- Understanding of information architecture, accessibility and usability.
- Web Editing software (e.g. Dreamweaver).
- Basic knowledge in Search Engines Optimization is an advantage.
- Understanding of PHP/ MYSQL would be a real asset but is not required.
- Good organizational skills, structured, detail oriented.
- Creative flair with a very good sense of user experience and how to optimize it.
- Excellent and clear communication skills.
- Fluency in English, both oral and written.

Web Developer in PHP/MYSQL

To succeed in this position, we believe you would need :

- Successful professional experience of at least 2-3 years
- Minimum 1-2 years in PHP/MYSQL
- Strong editing experience
- Knowledge of HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript and Ajax
- Networking and IIS Server administration experience would be a plus
- Understanding of information architecture, accessibility and usability
- Attention to detail, flexibility and pro-active approach
- Good organizational skills
- Excellent Communication skills, oral and written
- Fluency in English and French (oral & written)

If you are interested, please send your CV to: ahmet @ mba-exchange DOT com
We are looking forward to read about your competences!

Ahmet

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