Still going after all these years.
It’s the semiannual Veracode hackathon, so I’m behind on blogging. Again. It’s that most wonderful time of the year—no, that other one. My company Veracode is hosting its ninth Hackathon this week, and it’s been interesting. The theme is 90s Internet Hackers, or as we say in my house, “Saturday.” Seriously: putting together the radio station … Continue reading “Veracode Hackathon IX”
Security In Session Come talk to us on April 19. (tags: veracode)
If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to work at an amazing company in the security space, wonder no more. Veracode is growing, and we’ve got quite a few openings in sales, engineering, QA, research, and even (particularly) in product management. If you’ve read my posts about security and product management, if you’ve … Continue reading “Veracode is hiring”
Quick pointers to a few awards Veracode has won recently: Readers Choice Award, Information Security Magazine and SearchSecurity.com Gartner Cool Vendor Award, Application Security and Authentication category It’s great for Veracode to get this kind of recognition. I’m really proud to work at a company that can make a difference to how companies address application … Continue reading “Veracode: Cool Vendor”
It’s another Veracode Hackathon, which means it’s time for some Exfiltration Radio. This set had its origins in our trip to Germany and Austria this summer, particularly Vienna, where it seemed Falco (of “Rock Me Amadeus” fame) was around every corner. I didn’t spot the artsy mural above, but we did see him in a … Continue reading “Exfiltration Radio: Neue Deutsche Welle”
A Veracode Hackathon has started and it’s pirates! Just as with our abortive pirate-themed Hackathon of the annus horribilis 2020, this one has occasioned a mix of cover songs! Cover songs consist of one artist performing the music of another, which sometimes feels like “love and theft,” as Bob Dylan once wrote, hence the name. … Continue reading “Exfiltration Radio: Musical Piracy 2”
It’s a Veracode Hackathon time, so it’s time for some Exfiltration Radio! And this time around we are feeling purple! Show notes below. I was talking about Sheryl Crow for some reason at the office recently, and casually mentioned the Prince cover of “Everyday is a Winding Road,” and they said, What? And I said, … Continue reading “Exfiltration Radio: Wanna be your cover”
With great Veracode hackathons come more Exfiltration Radio episodes. This time around, I have a playlist of indie/alternative/etc. rock with female voices that I’ve been building for a few years. Only I didn’t realize it. The original version of this playlist had basically the same intro as the final version but segued into a hip-hop … Continue reading “Exfiltration Radio: say what you mean”
It’s a Veracode Hackathon, so it must be time for an Exfiltration Radio playlist! This time, naturally, the musical choices were influenced by all the Miles-related jazz I’ve been writing about over the last few months, as well as an unlikely source: my Apple Music library maintenance. So, when you source your library from iTunes … Continue reading “New mix: Exfiltration Radio, Cooking With Fat”
Next week would have been Veracode’s Hackathon, during which we do a lot of crazy things, including run a volunteer company Internet radio station. I’ve made a bunch of one-hour-long mixes over the last few years for this effort, and was looking forward to playing along loosely with the Hackathon theme (pirates!) this time, starting … Continue reading “New mix: Exfiltration radio 12, Musical Piracy”
It’s another Hackathon at Veracode, and time for another playlist. This time around we get an hour of jazz and jazz-adjacent Hammond organ, for your ass. This is not your ballpark organ music, he said, glaring sternly at the interrogator; it’s something that should be deep in your soul. There’s lots of Jimmy Smith on … Continue reading “New mix: Exfiltration Radio: The Mighty Hammond”
One of the things I missed most about Veracode while we were part of CA Technologies was the company kickoff meeting. Starting around 2010 we brought all our employees together at the beginning of each fiscal year to check in on the state of the business, get excited about what was to come, and reconnect … Continue reading “Kickoff 2019”
I’ve been a fan of Dave Brubeck’s jazz since I first listened to my parents’ copy of Dave Brubeck’s Greatest Hits, which is how I discovered “Take Five” and “Blue Rondo A La Turk.” Since then I picked up many of the great man’s recordings (including A Dave Brubeck Christmas, which I reviewed for Blogcritics back in … Continue reading “Dipping into the Brubeck discography”
We just finished another Veracode Hackathon, and this one was rock and roll themed. One of our brilliant hackers put together an Internet radio station where you could sign up for a one-hour time slot and post a playlist. Naturally, this was catnip. I spent a few hours putting together two playlists, which I’ve embedded below—one … Continue reading “Exfiltration Radio”
Today was the first day (the “unclosing”) of Veracode’s semiannual Hackathon. In ordinal numbers, this is the eleventh one we’ve done, though the actual name is Hackathon 10 5/7. (It’s ok; we’re all mad here.) I am looking back at all the hacks I’ve done over the last few years and it’s fascinating what they … Continue reading “Hacking”