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National Broadband Map Review

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) in collaboration with the FCC has published a series of broadband maps on a new site called National Broadband Map (NBM). These maps show what broadband services are available throughout the United States as well as other interesting broadband data. Hit this link and click the “Explorer the [...]

MsMpEng.exe – Microsoft Security Essentials high CPU Utilization

If you are running Microsoft Security Essentials with real-time protection enabled on a machine running ThinkVantage Access Connections you might notice the MsMpEng.exe service consuming most of your CPU time. This will cause your Lenevo laptop to run obnoxiously slow. Allegedly this issue was fixed with a new version of Access Connections but on a [...]

25 ways to insecurity

The 2009 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors was recently released by CWE/SANS. Most of the items are old news but I think it is a good checklist that should be on the boiler plate for web application design documents. By putting security requirements in the software specification and design documents, the project manager [...]

My Geek Christmas

I think we are done with our various Christmas celebrations and my friends and family over-did for me this year (as usual): Lego Imperial Star Destroyer – Star Wars Set 6211. My awesome wife got this for me. Many of the folks I work with at BlueTie have proudly decorated their cubicles with Legos and [...]

Another geek blog…

I intend to post my web development notes here for my own reference and in hopes that others might find some useful bits.