Talk over with at eduWEB

Posted by Richard Orelup on July 22nd 2008 to Conferences

Well the talk went. The whole time in my head I’m telling myself to talk slower but it didn’t really work. Turned a 50 minute presentation into 30 minute one. And unfortunately not enough questions to fill more time. I have some things I will add to the presentation for when I give it in October at HighEdWeb 2008 that came about from questions. Actually showing off the graceful degradation concept will be the big thing. Other then being too fast I think the talk went okay. Hopefully it will get easier over time. It’s hard giving a talk though to such a diverse group of people (position wise.) I would guess it was 1/3rd developers and 2/3rd manager/pr types and it’s hard to really hit both because you don’t want to get to technical but at the same time you aren’t getting technical enough. HighEdWeb seems like it will have the more technical side of the coin which I’ll try to adjust the presentation more to next time around. And maybe I’ll get more laughs from some of the geek humor I threw in.

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eduWEB 2008 slides

Posted by Richard Orelup on July 22nd 2008 to Conferences

Here are the slides for my presentation today. Hope you enjoyed it if you saw it.

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At eduWEB 2008

Posted by Richard Orelup on July 22nd 2008 to Conferences

Well just made it through the first day of eduWEB 2008. Just putting the finishing touches on my slides for tomorrow. I’ll be talking about AJAX and how we used it on our athletics site. Will be interesting, being it’s my first time talking at a conference.
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Google gets owned, though I would have to :)

Posted by Richard Orelup on July 14th 2008 to Programming

TechCrunch has an interesting story up about Google here. It has profanity in it but it’s upside down so it must have the opposite effect. :)

˙looɔ ʎʇʇǝɹd ʇɐɥʇ ʇ,usı

What this is a perfect example of is that you can never trust the data given to you by the client, EVER! Unfortunately most people don’t know that this was even possible (including myself until I saw this.) Now while being able to put in upside down text may not seem like a huge issue this can allow things to get around filters that were setup (say for profanity) or possibly allow for injection type attacks.

So this is just something good to know is out there as a possibility, cause we all know “knowing is half the battle!”

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