This is my first pelican post using markdown. I have yet to import all my old blog entries as I first need to make sure I can make it work from scratch.

Below is the skeleton python program that I always start out with:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os …

Early yesterday morning many people gained an extra hour by repeating the second hour of the day. Those people in time zones that were previously on daylight saving time switched back to standard time and thus may have observed their digital devices record the following sequence of times:

2012-11-04 01 …

A few days ago I wrote about a few differences between using C and python to handle a process-based job management system. My discussion covered performance, development time, dependencies, and portability. I ended with the conclusion that despite C being vastly superior in performance, the relative difference in performance between …

I had an interesting discussion with my buddy Ali after he read my previous post, Python Multiprocessing Pool and KeyboardInterrupt Revisited. The discussion was around the question, “what are the benefits of using the python multiprocessing.Pool class over writing a simple process-based job management system in C?”

We started …

Earlier today I was in the process of cleaning out some Chrome bookmarks when I came across a post by John M. Reese I bookmarked titled, Python: Using KeyboardInterrupt with a Multiprocessing Pool. I had bookmarked John’s post a number of months ago as it referenced my previous post …

Yesterday, October 7, 2011, the graduate students of UCSB’s Computer Science department, including myself, hosted the 6th annual Graduate Student Workshop on Computing (GSWC). The workshop is a great opportunity for other students, faculty, and industry professionals to get an overview of the work performed by our department. Part …

For the third year, I competed with team Shellphish in the Defcon quals. We pulled through with some amazing points at the end to finish in 8th place. My successful contributions, however, were really only with respect to Forensics 100 and 300. My write up for the following are below …

Update 2011/02/23 11:02 PST
Added the lift tag and updated the list.

Update 2011/02/22 13:19 PST
Added the jsf tag (java server faces) and updated the total question count for each item on the list.

Update 2011/02/22 11:14 PST
Adding spring-mvc …

The Usenix security deadline is quickly approaching, and that means finalizing everything on my research project. Therefore, today I wanted to quickly parallelize some of my analysis code to take advantage of the eight virtual processors on my machine. I previously wrote about python multiprocessing and keyboard interrupts, so the …

Each year the Security Lab at UCSB hosts the International Capture the Flag competition, an approximately eight-hour security competition pitting security groups at various universities around the world against each other. Last year I had the privilege of contributing significantly to the setup on the iCTF, and later publishing and …