testOff to weeCamp I go
Tomorrow is weeCamp, a beCamp/barCamp style conference covering web application security. I am REALLY excited about this conference, there was a chance I was not going to be able to go, but I will be there. The talk I think I will be most interested in hearing is RoR security. I have been learning RoR a bit the past week and while there is a learning curve I am really enjoying it. I have a large project that I am going to be tackling in the Rails framework and I hope that my needs to not exceed my limited experience with RoR. Worst case I have to write it in PHP by scratch or use CakePHP.
Very early Friday morning I was updating my BIOS and it appears that the utility killed off a dependency for my UPS utility, which then made the application think that the connection was lost. This resulted in my UPS rebooting and killing the power to my machine in the middle of the update. I was unable to do a BIOS recovery so I had to order a new motherboard since MSI does not have advanced replacement. If I RMA that board it will take 7-10 business days for them to fix it after they receive it. Combine that with shipping and I am looking at probably a month, considering that is my primary system and migrating everything to another system is just out of the question I felt the $150 was worth it.
Its been a difficult few days even outside my techie life, so I am really hoping this conference will boost my spirits.
