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April 2012 meeting
Entry posted on Apr 11 by MarkDuBois , tagged Design,Development

Our April 2012 meeting was held on the East Peoria campus of Illinois Central College. We had several presentations.

Larry Ball provided an overview of node.js and demonstrated how one can create a web server in under 20 lines of code. He covered many of the fundamental features of node.js and showed various examples (including the obligatory "Helo World" web page. He also covered framewroks (such as Express and Geddy) which can be used to extend node.js.

Jonathan Worent concluded his series of presentations on the web design and development process he employs when working with clients. He covered how he develops the semantics of the site before he gets the design work back from the web designer or graphic artist (after he has created the wireframe and shared it with the web designer). He also covered Object Oriented CSS.

Mark DuBois reviewed the enhancements in Photoshop CS 6 and mentioned that this is available for a free downlaod at http://labs.adobe.com. Among the many features, he showed, he stressed the "what's new" workspace in Photoshop which highlights all the areas where there have been enhancements.

Our next meeting is planned for May 8, 2012.

March 2012 meeting
Entry posted on Mar 14 by MarkDuBois , tagged Event,Development,Design,Mobile

Web Professionals and Adobe User Group Meeting-March 13, 2012

Our meeting was held in conjunction with the local chapter of OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project). Joe Kraft gave a presentation introducing OWASP, current security news, and SQL Injection.

He gave several examples of SQL injection using a tool called WebGoat, and a general discussion about security followed. https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_WebGoat_Project

On a side note, Jonathan Worent suggested visiting a site: http://xkcd.com , which is a gentleman who does 3x a week comics. Note from Mark: Don’t forget to hover over each comic to read the title information.

If you are interested in security and the local chapter of OWASP, here is their contact information:

Subscribe to Peoria Chapter mailing list:

https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-peoria

Their website is at https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Peoria

The national site is at: http://www.owasp.org

The next meeting will probably be in May, and OWASP will be having someone from the FBI there to discuss what they do.

Larry Ball spoke about how security should be incorporated into a corporate culture. Some topics he covered included Threat Modeling (including asset identification, deconstructing the application to identify security regions (authentication/authorization, logging, etc.)), Code review (with mitigation of threats in the development phase), Security Assessment Tools (Including Sprajax, MetaSploit, and Nessus 5).

He has made his presentation available for download at:

http://blog.larryaball.net/eisa-considerations-for-web-application-security/

Mark DuBois (http://blog.markdubois.info) provided an overview of Adobe Shadow; he recently wrote a review on his blog that is available. You install Shadow on your computer, then install the plugin into Chrome, then for each device you have, you need to download the Shadow application to each of your devices. It generates a passcode for each one, and once you enter the passcode into the Shadow app, you can easily test on all of the devices, and you can go in and change it, which is reflected on all of the devices. If you switch tabs or click on a link, all of the devices change at once. All devices do need to be on the same network. You can download it from http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/shadow/

For our next meeting, Jonathan will continue the “Development Process Overview” series, and will talk about the next step after Wireframing – implementing the wireframe..

Larry Ball will give an introduction to node.js, a server-side JavaScript environment.

Next meeting will be on Tuesday, April 10^th at ICC, room to be announced.

Many thanks to Shari Tripp for developing these notes.

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