Elevation of Privilege is the easy way to get started threat modeling. Threat modeling is a core component of the design phase in the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL).
The Elevation of Privilege (EoP) card game helps clarify the details of threat modeling and examines possible threats to software and computer systems.
Read more and get it at http://www.microsoft.com/security/sdl/eop.aspx
In common use, “synchronization” means making two things happen at the
same time. In computer systems, synchronization is a little more general; it
refers to relationships among events—any number of events, and any kind of
relationship (before, during, after).
Computer programmers are often concerned with synchronization con-
straints, which are requirements pertaining to the order of events. Examples
include:
Serialization: Event A must happen before Event B.
Mutual exclusion: Events A and B must not happen at the same time.
In real life we often check and enforce synchronization constraints using a
clock. How do we know if A happened before B? If we know what time both
events occurred, we can just compare the times.
In computer systems, we often need to satisfy synchronization constraints
without the benefit of a clock, either because there is no universal clock, or
because we don’t know with fine enough resolution when events occur.
That’s what this book is about: software techniques for enforcing synchronization
constraints.
Here are just a few examples of the algorithms covered.
Read it at http://greenteapress.com/semaphores/downey08semaphores.pdf
I find it hard to get F# (like other functional languages) under the nails as we say in Denmark. Here is 4 short and funny articles by Ivan Towlson that shed some more light on it. The first starts here: F# and first-class functions, part 1: the composition operator
When Microsoft announced they would begin providing official support for jQuery, few of us realized how profoundly that announcement would eventually impact client-side development on the ASP.NET platform. Since that announcement, using jQuery with ASP.NET has moved from the obscure, to a central role in ASP.NET MVC’s client-side story, and now to the point of potentially superseding ASP.NET AJAX itself.
Get the full picture and read the rest at: http://visitmix.com/Articles/Javascript-Libraries-and-ASPNET
