Data Warehouse and Java 2 SE 5.0 Certification seminar

As the year just started we began organizing a new seminar. Believe me organizing a seminar requires tremendous amount of work. If you miss only one single thing and there will be negative feedback from the participants. My goal is to constantly improve the process until we reach good enough feedback from the participants.
In the second week of February (9, 10, 11 and 12th) we plan to set up a three days seminar in "Azalia Hotel", St. St. Konstantin & Elena. The seminar includes two tracks. The first one is titled "Java 2 SE 5.0 – ALL ABOUT THE CERTIFICATION". The purpose of the track is to prepare software developers with little and average experience with all the required elements that exam is consisted of. The track is also suitable for more experienced developers since a lot of example questions with full explanations are included and can be discussed thoroughly. Our experts are ready to solve all your cases.
The second track is titled "Data Warehouse Solutions – Design and Development". It aims to provide the ground level information that every single data warehouse developer must have before he even thinks of creating real data warehouse solution. The first day we will cover only theoretical stuff about Strategic Information Models, Dimensional Modeling, Data Marts, OLAP dimensions and cube concepts, and Microsoft OLAP client tools. The first day will finish with a sample data warehouse solution created with SQL Server Analysis Services. The next days will cover various data warehouse solutions from vendors like Oracle, IBM, PostgreSQL and we will finish with demo from Microstrategy’s local representatives.
The seminar has the support of Bulgarian Association of Software Developers and Sun Academic Initiative.

US-CERT 2005 Security Bulletin

Here is a link to security bulletin for year 2005 issued by US-CERT. The bulletin shows the number of vulnerabilities in Windows, Unix/Linux, and other OS. Here is the result in short:

There were 5198 reported vulnerabilities: 812 Windows operating system vulnerabilities; 2328 Unix/Linux operating vulnerabilities; and 2058 Multiple operating system vulnerabilities.

This can break the myth that open source is secure because of it is nature. It also shows that if enough efforts are taken more secure code can be produced. Microsoft spent a lot of time from 2000 to now improving it is code's security. Tools like PreFAST, compile time option /GS, managed code and many others brought us a more stable and secure OS no matter what 'penguin' fans say.

Interop resources

Mattias Sjögren has collected a very good set of resources about .NET Interoperability. If need a starting point this site can definitely help you.