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Part I – The Signup
The pic above from l to r, Kelly, Richard, and Tim McKinney circa xmas ’91. Note: this post is about my first-ever Dirty Kanza 200 experience on June 4, 2016. Part I – The Signup Read Part II – Prep...
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Part IV – Starting Line
The Three Sanchos, from l to r, Shawn McKinney, Kelly McKinney and Gregg Corum. Note: this post is about my first-ever Dirty Kanza 200 experience on June 4, 2016. Read Part I – The Signup Read Part...
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Part II – Prep / Training
The pic above is my entry for the 2016 DK200 unboxed. Note: this post is about my first-ever Dirty Kanza 200 experience on June 4, 2016. Read Part I – The Signup Part II – Prep / Training Read Part...
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Part V – Checkpoint One
The pic above Checkpoint One, Madison, KS. Note: this post is about my first-ever Dirty Kanza 200 experience on June 4, 2016. Read Part I – The Signup Read Part II – Prep / Training Read Part III –...
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Part VII – Checkpoint Two
Note: this post is about my first-ever Dirty Kanza 200 experience on June 4, 2016. Read Part I – The Signup Read Part II – Prep / Training Read Part III – Friday Read Part IV – Starting Line Read...
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Part III – Friday
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Part VIII – Checkpoint Three
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Part IX – Finish Line
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2016 Dirty Kanza
This post is about my first-ever Dirty Kanza 200 experience on June 4, 2016. It has been broken into nine parts: Part I – The Signup Part II – Prep / Training Part III – Friday Part IV – Starting Line...
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Apache Fortress Role Engineering Tutorial
Apache Fortress Role Engineering Tutorial The goals of this tutorial are to Gain understanding of the Role Based Access Control (RBAC) standard Learn the repeatable steps of the Role Engineering...
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Apache Fortress Two Years and Still Going
A couple of years ago I wrote about my first ApacheCon experience in Budapest along with some thoughts about the move into the ASF. Much like before, it’s the last night in Seville, late and can’t...
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The Eleven Commandments for Aging and Exercise
After passing the half century mark a few years ago, I find myself in a quandary over exercise. Damned if I do and damned if I don’t. That’s because the aging process brings on arthritis, obesity,...
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RBAC vs ABAC
Frequently debated within info sec circles. Which one of them is better? Use the right tool for the job as they say. RBAC, like any access control model, has its weaknesses. Many are well understood,...
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On the Essential Question of Identity
For years I’ve been on record proclaiming that identity centralization is good and synchronization is bad. I reasoned it is better to re-engineer processes to share identities than to distribute and...
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Access Control is not a laughing matter
1. A couple of rowdy roles were ejected but returned the next day. “Just who do they think they are?” asked the doorman. “They rbac”, said the bartender. 2. Some random attributes wandered into the...
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Secure Web Apps with JavaEE and Apache Fortress
ApacheCon is just a couple months away — coming up May 16-18 in Miami. We asked Shawn McKinney, Software Architect at Symas Corporation, to share some details about his talk at ApacheCon. His...
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Advice for the graduating computer science student (on finding their first...
I’ve been mentoring a graduating senior in computer science. Here’s what I told him… First, read the 10 steps to becoming the developer everyone wants. It contains some pretty good strategies for...
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The Anatomy of a Secure Web App Using Java EE, Spring Security and Apache...
Had a great time this week at ApacheCon. This talk was presented on Thursday…
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2017 Dirty Kanza Prep & Training
Note: This post is about my second Dirty Kanza 200 experience on June 3, 2017. It’s broken into seven parts: Part I – Prep / Training Part II – Preamble Part III – Starting Line Part IV – Checkpoint...
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2017 Dirty Kanza
This post is about my second Dirty Kanza 200 experience on June 3, 2017. Intro Last year’s was chronicled here: 2016 Dirty Kanza. I made enough mistakes to compel another go at it. It’s broken into...
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