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The “Heartbleed” vulnerability of OpenSSL is in the news – well, actually a big part of world´s computer systems can be affected. And your accounts too! Who is affected? Are your passwords still safe? What to do? I collected some information about the vulnerability here, hope it helps for your understanding. What is OpenSSL and what is it used for? OpenSSL is a common library on Linux for providing encryption functionality. The OpenSSL encryption software library is used by many websites to protect customers’ data. OpenSSL 1.0.1 contains a vulnerability that could disclose sensitive private information to an attacker. ...

From 7th to 10th of April the WinDays Conference 2014 takes place in Umag, Croatia. WinDays started 13 years ago and as of today the conference is the largest regional technology conference about business and technology with more than 1.500 participants. See some snapshots from the conference setup… [ ](img_107.jpg “WP_20140408_15_34_59_Pro”) We from atwork are happy to be part of the conference. Find our slides and our code sample here: ...

This week, from March 31th to April 2nd, the Microsoft Exchange Conference 2014 takes place in Austin, Texas. Austin is a great city and it´s fun to be here an to be part of the conference! We from atwork are here with two sessions: How to (remote) control Office 365 with Azure with Martina Grom and Toni Pohl (Developer session) Experts Unplugged: Exchange Online Migrations with Ayla Kol, Jono Luk, Martina Grom, Ram Poornalingam, Ronil Dhruva and Lucas Costa (Discussion Session) ...

I admit it: I´m a big ‘House of Cards’ fan and the main character Francis Underwood who is played perfectly by actor Kevin Spacey. This Netflix series is about politicians in America – but could take place everywhere in the word - and based on a British mini series out of the 1990´s. Anyway, there are cool quotes in the series, see here: samuel-warde.com: 22 Frank Underwood Quotes From ‘House of Cards’ ...

In the last couple of weeks I did a lot Windows Intune POC’s with Demo Customer environments. Windows Intune is a great tool for mobile device management, you can add Windows Devices as well as your Windows Phones and iOS Devices. Mobile Device Management made easy, so you can manage your devices. To setup Mobile Device Management you have first decide what the authority of your Mobile Device Management is. Since I am a public cloud addicted, I use Intune the plain way. Of course you can also configure it together with your System Center infrastructure. After you have set that you can now start configuring your Mobile Device Management. ...

In part 1 we created a Ghost blogging platform in Windows Azure by clicking next-next-finish. Now let´s use this blog system. When calling the blog URL you get a welcome post message with the first information you need: It´s the URL for the content mangement: <your blog URL>/ghost/ …at the first call you land at the signup form which looks like this: Fill in your Full Name as the name you want to appear as the author of blog posts and choose your email and a strong password. Then click “Sign Up”. Here we go! ...

What is Ghost? Well, Ghost is a brand new blogging platform (https://ghost.org/features/) which is built on Node.js. You can install Ghost locally on your computer or – which is much more easy and faster – use Windows Azure! Our MVP colleague Albert Weinert posted that he uses this new blog system on https://blog.der-albert.com and made us curious – so we needed to have a look and to try it out! Thx Albert for your tip! ...

Read this article with a nice comparison: codefoster.com: Why Azure is Running the Sochi Olympics and Not AWS by Jeremy Foster, Microsoft Developer Evangelist. “…The streaming of this world event is backed by Microsoft’s Azure cloud servers - 10,000 of them to be exact. You might wonder why it’s Azure that’s backing this and not AWS. … It’s perhaps a bit like this.” Nice. Read it here!

Cool effects – with animated GIFs and two two straight lines at GIFs: 3D pictures become possible with two straight lines “Simply by drawing a couple of lines through what is a flat screen, one can achieve the illusion of viewing a movie (or at least a short clip) in 3D.” Here are my two favorite pics: Scrat from Ice Age And one more made from an action movie (or series?): ...

Have a look at the website of Doublemesh, there you find an article with a compilation of 20 Free EBooks For Web Designers! …and 10 more ebooks! Check it out here. Tip: In the article click on the book title to continue to the relevant download page.