Igniting Social Change

10^th SCG Meeting on 10^th June 07

Venue : MIT01 classroom @ SP JAIN Inst of Management and Research

Attendees

1. Nikhil Parva (SCG)
2. Biju Krishnan (SCG)
3. Harish Sheregar (SCG)
4. Anant Mengane (SCG)
5. Subin G (SPJIMR)
6. Ganga B (SPJIMR)
7. Manas Ranjan (SPJIMR)

I hope I haven’t missed any name.

Focus this time

1. Strategy to increase membership base, spread word and reach out to corporate’s via NIMITT.
2. SCG presentation by Nikhi for new members and SPJIMR students.
3. Ice breaker conversation with new members. (more…)
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In one of my earlier posts I had stated as to how SUN is getting ready to empower the Web 2.0 revolution. Its clear that there is a revolution of some sorts waiting to happen. When the internet was born, only a few would have thought that it would outdo every other medium on earth. Communication, entertainment, business all have integrated their products with applications, that help users connect to the internet. The Web 2.0 revolution is already here with new hardware, more bandwidth, and improved applications. GMAIL, I must say is the Web 2.0, web based free email service. The X6400 is the Web 2.0 web server.
When we talk of applications, we must of talk about the code used to build it. (more…)

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Venue : SP Jain Institute of Management Studies.

Attendees :

1. Prof. Nirja Mattoo
2. Nitin Kaul
3. Biju Krishnan
4. Nikhil Parva

Focus This time

1. Review of membership drive.

We reviewed the membership drive which covered almost all active IEEE chapters in and around Mumbai. We received very encouraging response from the IEEE, VESIT (Vivekanand Education) cell. They have agreed to participate in all our activities and cater to our resource requirements.

Other IEEE cells haven’t responded and seem to be gripped by the exam fever which will end by June 12.

We plan to replay the membership drive post June 12. Expect co-operation from all members. (more…)

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Call it the Cause & Effect story or the Chicken & Hen syndrome, we have a competing product for the Magic Quadrant and it’s called………hold your breath …..the Forrester Wave (did I hear clapping sound   ).

 Ahem….I would not be the right person to comment on who copied who. According to Forrester Website,  http://www.forrester.com/wave

” One of your biggest challenges is evaluating and selecting vendor products and services. That’s why we created the Forrester Wave — our call on a particular market or technology. Whether you’re investing in application server platforms or content management providers, the Forrester Wave makes it easy for you to make well-informed decisions. (more…)

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During one of the conference in Mumbai, I was surprised to see every major vendor using the Gartner’s Magic Quadrant in their presentation. I was both embarassed and annoyed at my lack of information about this important concept released by Gartner.

In order to enligten our readers, I have compiled a brief article

The “Magic Quadrant by Gartner” evaluates each vendor according to its strategic direction, completeness of vision and ability to execute. The vendors are placed in one of the four quadrants consisting of Challengers, Leaders, Niche players and Visionaries depending on their strength. (more…)

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It was an interesting article authored by the SUN CEO Jonathan Schwartz in the Sun Boardroom newsletter that I receive every month.

http://www.sun.com/emrkt/boardroom/newsletter/0407feature.html?cid=917071

Although its quite a simple math that he’s illustrated, its a good thought. Also to note is the marketing strategy he’s used this for, to sell tapes. He also projects tapes as environmental friendly storage devices, since unlike hard-disks they do not consume power when unused. HDD needs to be spinning all the time.

Well a few things to learn from Jonathon, on starting new debates which can create fresh demands for you old products.

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Incorrectly filtered escape characters

This form of SQL injection occurs when user input is not filtered for escape characters and is then passed into a SQL statement. This results in the potential manipulation of the statements performed on the database by the end user of the application.
The following line of code illustrates this vulnerability:

statement := “SELECT * FROM users WHERE name = ‘” + userName + ‘;”                          
If the “userName” variable is crafted in a specific way by a malicious user, the SQL statement may do more than the code author intended. For example, setting the “userName” variable as a’ or ‘t’='t
renders this SQL statement by the parent language: (more…)