Wet Socks and Insecure Socket Layers
Wet Socks and Insecure Socket Layers: Two of the Worst Things for You and Your Company Wet socks. No one likes them. Network intrusion? Nobody gets excited about that, either. When it comes to securing…
Blockchain: Not Just Another Tech Fad
I attended a Des Moines Webgeeks user group meeting about blockchain featuring Dave Wakeman from IBM. His talk centered around how blockchain could be used for business. He talked about an example where Wal-Mart used…
Considerations Before Buying Identity and Access Management Products
Considerations before buying Identity and Access Management products: Don't buy milk if you're lactose intolerant! So here you are. You understand that your business needs an Identity and Access Management system. You’ve evangelized about how…
Zirous Named a Top Workplace in Iowa
Having lived and worked in Des Moines, IA for 10+ years now, something I have always enjoyed is grabbing the local papers to see what is happening in the area from both a social and…
Look Inside a Zirous Internship: Part 2
At the start of summer, I was told I'd be working on a machine learning project for the length of my internship. I was a little nervous, as I only had the knowledge that I…
Look Inside a Zirous Internship: Part 1
This summer, I had the opportunity to intern with Zirous, researching and building a project for machine learning. After finishing my first year of college at Iowa State University and majoring in mathematics and data…
Digits for Well Bees: A Siri-ous Look into Digital Wellbeing
Often, the Queen’s word is the word in a hive. If bee psychiatrists (stay with me here) existed, they would follow the queen's decrees on how to deal with classifying mental disorders and making psychiatric…
Microservices: Breaking it Down
It has been a longstanding goal of software companies to get features out to customers faster. As we see the rise in popularity of DevOps in software development, a new form of architecture has tagged…
Learning New Technologies
If you are a software developer, learning new technologies is a way of life. That is probably one the of reasons why you are developer in the first place - you like to kick the…
How to Easily Change the Display of OIM User Attributes
Recently a client asked me if it was possible to conditionally display user attributes in OIM. He was concerned that it would require many new forms to display and modify attributes based on various conditions.…