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	<title>Mostly Software Engineering</title>
	<link>http://www.advansen.com</link>
	<description>Gabriel Gonzalez&#039;s notebook</description>
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		<title>Twitter Internal Fragmentation: Python + Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a toy project to play a little bit more with Python and accessing Twitter, I came out with the idea of calculating the Internal Fragmentation of user&#8217;s tweet. 
To interface with Twitter services I used the Twitter extension located at http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/, which has a pretty straightforward API.
The script shown below gives you back what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.advansen.com/2010/01/25/twitter-internal-fragmentation-python-twitter/</link>
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		<title>Vulnerability Engineering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just published an article about Vulnerabily Engineering in Wintercore&#8217;s blog (spanish version in 48bits.com). It focuses in applying Software Engineering metrics to the world of Vulnerability Research which can give us an idea about how Reliable a Software Product is.
In this article I analyze five applications Microsoft&#8217;s Explorer, Sun&#8217;s Java JRE, Apple&#8217;s QuickTime, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.advansen.com/2009/11/12/vulnerability-engineering/</link>
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		<title>SQUID + Active Directory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few post ago I wrote about integrating SQUID and Active Directory in order to allow/deny users to access specific webpages depeding on the groups a user belongs.
The windows package of Squid comes with several external programs which can be used as external ACLs which allow you to query the local Active Directory in order [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.advansen.com/2009/09/21/squid-active-directory/</link>
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		<title>Creating an Installer Using NSIS (III)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this last post about NSIS I am going to describe how to use some of the most useful plugins which will allow you create a pretty decent and featurefull installer for windows.

Checking for adminstrator privileges:

 userInfo::getAccountType
 Pop $0
 StrCmp $0 &#8220;Admin&#8221; +3
 
 MessageBox MB_OK &#8220;Debe tener privilegios de administrador para correr este programa [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.advansen.com/2009/09/07/creating-an-installer-using-nsis-iii/</link>
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		<title>Creating an Installer Using NSIS (II)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After playing for a few days with NSIS I have manage to create a full features installer which perform all the actions I needed. These are the following:

Download files
Unzip Files to a specific folder
Execute external installers
Modify Environment Variables

Since NSIS supports plug-ins there are quite a few available which provide extra functionalities such as the unzipping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.advansen.com/2009/09/02/creating-an-installer-using-nsis-ii/</link>
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		<title>Creating an Installer Using NSIS (I)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I faced a new problem, I had to program a installer for Windows in order to deploy some software we have produced at work. After a quick googling I found NSIS an installer generator, open source and with a simple scripting language.
NSIS comes with a compiler which parses the sentences writting in its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.advansen.com/2009/09/01/creating-an-installer-using-nsis-i/</link>
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		<title>Glueing applications with Python</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The problem I faced was the following:

Two processes I have to communicate with in order to validate data using stdin/stdout
No source code of this programs
Windows Platform

Since I am a UNIX guy I haven&#8217;t ever done anything advanced in Windows so I didn&#8217;t have the time to learn how to achive this in Windows as I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.advansen.com/2009/08/27/glueing-applications-with-python/</link>
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		<title>Back to Work: SQUID + Active Directory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post doesn&#8217;t mean I haven&#8217;t been working for the last two years! Just I haven&#8217;t been in the mood to post. I want to keep adding notes to this blog so I can remember those little easy-forgetable things I spend some time figuring out so I can get back to blog in the near [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.advansen.com/2009/08/25/back-to-work-squid-active-directory/</link>
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		<title>Long long time ago</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not enough time to keep this blog up to dates with articles and stuff. But soon I will be presenting a really nice and innovative tool which is gonna make our life better. See you soon
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		<link>http://www.advansen.com/2007/09/13/long-long-time-ago/</link>
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		<title>Protocol Specification with UML</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When building distributed application sometimes you need to use some kind of protocol to allow your parts to communicate each other. In the simple example I have been using for a while where you have an embedded client asking to a centralized server for new firmware updates, you have to establish a way to log [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.advansen.com/2007/02/26/protocol-specification-with-uml/</link>
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