<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hi all,</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Super chuffed at the response to this, quick note re: questions I'm getting for a lot of people.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Doing the workshop again</b>: Providing the pilot goes well and the attendees find the day valuable, the plan is definitely to do this regularly and/or at your office, but let me get 1.0 out the door first! I'll send an email to the list a month before it happens, but the earliest it's going to be is late October.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Doing the workshop on a weekday:</b> Yep we'll do that too.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Waiting list:</b> People drop out of things, so please go ahead and click the 'Add Me to the Waitlist' button on the eventbrite page if you'd like to jump into a freed spot.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Didn't realise there would be so much interest in this, so it's all <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nuvrg9g3PK4" target="_blank">rainbows and spinning red pandas</a> up in here! </div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Najaf Ali <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ali@happybearsoftware.com" target="_blank">ali@happybearsoftware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Good morning LRUGgers,</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
This is a sales pitch so I'll try to make it as quick and painless as humanly possible, ignore if you're not in a particularly consumerist mood. The good news is I'm not trying to hire you!</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I'm running a hands-on Rails security workshop on Saturday August 24th. Attendees will work through a series of time-limited security war games and code all exploits from scratch. The goal of this is to replace vague FUD about security with a concrete understanding of the common attack vectors put to work against Rails applications.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">By the end of the workshop, you will:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>* Have an intuitive sense for vulnerable code and how to exploit it. Your spidey senses will start tingling at the sight of potential flaws in your codebase.</div>
<div>* Be up to date with common attack vectors against Rails applications.</div><div>* Be armed with strategies for keeping your codebases secure in the long-term.</div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I'll also throw in copies of the securing rails ebook/screencast series and whatever other goodies I end up bundling with them (when they're done).</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In future workshops I'm thinking of charging in the region of £300 for the day, but since this is a bit of a pilot I'm only going to ask for enough to roughly cover venue and doughnuts, so call it £50 a seat. The workshop is limited to six attendees for now, venue TBC but probably somewhere near Old Street or Angel.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">If that sounds like a good day out for you, make with the clicky clicky hither:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://rails-security-workshop.eventbrite.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://rails-security-workshop.eventbrite.co.uk/</a></font><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">If you have any questions, comments or whimsical musings for me, feel free to get in touch on or off list.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">All the best,</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Najaf Ali, <a href="http://happybearsoftware.com" target="_blank">http://happybearsoftware.com</a></div>
</font></span></div>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Ali, <a href="http://happybearsoftware.com" target="_blank">http://happybearsoftware.com</a></div>
</div>