I've created this blog to catalog software ideas, code examples and everything in between. I've been in the industry for over 3 years and have worked on a variety of projects from Identity and Access Management, to Web Application Security, to Java/Ruby application development.

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Project in the works

Posted August 19th, 2007 by paul

Well, I was able to spend some time this weekend to get my OpenBSD firewall back in action after a major HDD catastrophe. After getting my internal network back in order, I’ve decided to begin work on a few projects I’ve been thinking about.

The first project involves the use of Growl, the notification system written for OS X, and snort. Snort is a great little IDS that I’ve been working with for quite some time. Ever since I checked out growl, I’ve been really excited to get something going that utilizes it. Luckily the project with snort is perfect for it. In short the project will use ruby to monitor the snort IDS alert logs for alerts and use Growl to send a notification to the user. Growl does have ruby bindings…hence the choice of ruby. I could use Objective-C, the only problem with that is that I don’t know the language :). So, ruby it is. I will keep everyone posted on the progress/caveats.

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