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12/28/2004
Some interesting reads I found today on secure coding:Secure programmer: Call components safely [By way of Dana Epp] David Wheeler has released a new...
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(Cross-posted)As mentioned by Bob Beauchemin, there was a great night of Service Broker last week as part of the Guerilla SQL Server 2005. Dan...
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As I am now in the process of budgeting for next year's run of conferences I would like to speak at or attend, I noticed (along with many others) that...
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Valery Pryamikov has posted an excellent article titled "On Evolution of Microsoft Perception of System Security". The article chronicles the changes...
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Jerry Bryant posted a great list of Microsoft IT Security Resources (current as of November, 2004) to his blog:...
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I found the book Head First Design Patterns by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Freemen, Kathy Sierra, and Bert Bates a couple of days ago, ordered it, and...
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Some good reads recently:Part 2 of this series is out. Delve into the contract patterns that illustrate the behavioral specifications required to...
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Pierre Nallet of DevelopMentorhas written a good article sumarizing new security features in .NET 2.0. Take a look: "What is new for security in .NET...
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I will be speaking to the BostonC# Users Group on December 7 in Waltham, MA (Microsoft offices) at 6:30 pm on a slightly different topic for me. The...
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By way of DominicBaier:If you are interested in .net/windows security - check out michael willers blog! You'll find interesting in-sights in secure...
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Last night, I attended the Boston C# Users Group meeting at Microsoft, Waltham, MA where Jim Lennox was speaking on Service-Oriented Architecture...
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Microsoft has opened its doors to all customers with advanced notices of security bulletins. Previously, this was only available to Premier and other...
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I have posted my WinDev 2004 presentations and code on my SecureDevelop.net website:S7 - Writing Least Privileged Applications: pdf, codeS8 - Hosting...
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At the end of my "speaking debut" dayat WinDev(more on that later), I went out to look at the lunar eclipse when I noticed several people looking up....
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Doug's talk was very entertaining and informative. He is posting his slides on his blog, but has already put up a scary picture of Don that he showed...
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Jay Kimble (The Dev Theologian) has an interesting post on the dinner last night. Ihad lunch and dinner with Jay and I like his perspective and...
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One of the complaints about Tim Bray's talk this morningwas that it depressed everyone about what is bad with XML (in particular, all the work being...
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Just heard Whit Kemmey speak about "Using XML for Navy Missle Systems". This followed Don's talk on "WS-Why?" -- Don also used the same kind of loud...
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DonXML is posting some of his own pictures. As I mentioned before, the scenery is great (especially for someone who has never been to the northwest...
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Just a quick post to say I am here at the Applied XML Dev Con. Outside, the scenery is great!I just heard Tim Bray present on RSS and blogs -- you can...
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Another ASP.NET security blog is live: Dinis Cruz of OWASP-DOTNET fame is now blogging (RSS).Subscribed.I am really looking forward to Dinis'...
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I have been following this for a little over a week now on some security newsgroups, and it is now public from Microsoft: This alert is to advise you...
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It looks like the HDC 2004 site is up and running, so now is a good time to mention this. I will be speaking at the first annual Heartland Developers...
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I had the pleasure of attending Michele Leroux Bustamante's talk this past week on Web Services Security with a focus on WSE 2.0 at the NH .NET User...
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I added a couple of other topics to my proposed list at Code Camp II:Developing as a non-admin (chalk talk)We have all heard we shouldn’t run as...
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See here for more details. I plan on being at this one as it is down the road from me in Waltham rather than having to get into Boston!
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Yesterday, Keith Brown mentioned his new book The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security is finally shipping. I have preordered my copy from...
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From Omri Gazitt:In addition to the new Transfer and Enumeration specs, we published a whitepaper today providing an overview of the Web services...
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Both Dominick Baerand Anil John are pointing to Foundstone's new sample web application (written in ASP.NET and C#)that demonstrates common security...
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According to Eric Sink, this morning's warning about NOT installing .NET Framework version 1.1 Service Pack 1 on a Vault machine was a false alarm. I...
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Code Camp II is getting a lot of great speakers lined up for the October 17-18 weekend. Several of the speakers are coming from outside of the New...
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Looking for some fun reading today?Brian Johnson has posted a link to the latest Windows XP Security Guide documents and toolsfrom Microsoft:The...
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James Avery has formed his own company, Infozerk, and has been chronicling his journey into being an independent consultant. Scott Mitchell has also...
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Aaron Weikerpoints to a nice set of C# Tools.Always good to have link to these.
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I just watched and enjoyed Channel 9's view of the Indigo team (a video tour through the offices with Don Box).This was a fun video, especially...
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I will be speaking at Code Camp II, a Microsoft event coordinated by Thom Robbinsat the local Microsoft Waltham,MAoffice on October 16-17.The first...
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I had been waiting for this one.Chris Sells' Applied XML Developer's Conference is now scheduled for October 20-21outside of Portland, OR. Register...
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There are some interesting discussions about the loss of raw socket support in the new Windows XP SP2. Dominick Baier, Ian Griffiths, and Dana Epp are...
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Ireceived my copy of A First Look at SQL Server 2005 for Developers yesterday (written by Bob Beauchemin, Niels Berglund, Dan Sullivan, three of the...
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I just noticed one of my favorite SysInternals tools, DebugView, popped up a message saying it doesn't work on the current version of Windows XP...
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I have been collecting new blogs on SQL Server 2005 lately. Here are a few I know about:1. Bob Beauchemin has a blog(rss). I have his new book, A...
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The final release of NUnit 2.2 is available at http://nunit.sourceforge.netand will be at the web site (http://www.nunit.org) soon. [via Charles...
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If you missed it, the recording of Miguel de Icasa (of Mono fame) is on .NET Rocks this week.
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By way of Craig Andera:Jason Whittington has a blog. Jason's a friend from my DM days; these days he owns the DevelopMentor .NET curriculum. Looks...
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Just a reminder, I will be speaking on Code Access Security (CAS) to the new Downtown Boston .NET User Group in Boston tonight at 5:30 pm. If you are...
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I mentioned a couple of months ago I finally received my copy of the new Threat Modeling book.I was going to post a mini-review as it is excellent,but...
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As you may know by now, Jim Hugunin of IronPython fame has been hired by Microsoftto join the CLR team. Jason talks about needing more people to join...
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I agree withKlaus that Smart Clients need another look, as ASP.NET is not theonly solution for UIdeployment. The P&P book Smart Client Architecture...
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Go get it: Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 2.0 SP1 for Microsoft .NET
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Fritz Onion, author of the best ASP.NET book Essential ASP.NET, is writing a follow up book called Essential ASP.NET 2.0. Fritz lists some of his...
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Jeff Prosise has an article posted this month in MSDN Magazine on “Foiling Session Hijacking Attempts”. I was talking about this issue with a friend...
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I have posted the Powerpoint slides from my Boston .NET Users Group presentationhere on my website. It is very similar to the presentation I gave to...
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A couple of .NET happenings in the Boston area:1. Jason Haley organized the 1st Boston .NETBlogger Dinner, and now has organized the second...
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For CLR wonks (and all others interested in the whys and hows of the .Net Framework), Jim Miller, best known as a CLR Architect and author of the book...
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Sam talks about hisexperiences with the new SQLExpress Beta 2 Edition. Heis frustrated by the lack of UI tools (in particular, the publicized tool...
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Mono hit its 1.0 target release earlier this week. These guys have worked hard over the past few years and have made a lot of progress....
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I just received my pre-ordered (through Amazon) Code Complete: Second Edition book. This is another one of those “must have” books that helps the new...
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Tim Ewald, famous for the best COMPlus book in the world, and now doing an excellent job with XML and WebServices and the MSDN re-organization, as...
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Dave Burke has posted some great notes about the sessions he attended at DevTeach 2004 in...
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I spoke withSam Gentile a couple of nights ago, andhe mentionedthe 1st Boston Blogger Dinner was a big success. Out of that dinnercame many volunteers...
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Maxim V. Karpov has written a great article on Code Access Security (CAS) – "Guilty until proven Innocent" (Partially Trusted Code) which talks...
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Jim Newkirk is blogging. Subscribed!
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Bradpoints to a great early DM post by Brian Harry (who has started blogging!) on the explanation of resource management and why deterministic...
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Some more changes! John Lam mentioned today that he has leftWintellect and joinedObjectSharpin Toronto (along with Marcie Robillard aka DataGrid...
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Michele Leroux Bustamantealso has a great post sumarizingDon Box'sand Doug Purdy's presentation “Service Orientation and the Developer”
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If you are like me, you aren't at TechEd this week, but you are enjoying the blog updates as they come in (similar to what happened during PDC 2003).I...
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Another countdown of sorts? Aaron shares a little more here, plus mentions the cool T-shirt give away at TechEd this week. Another reason I wish I was...
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The C# 2.0 Language Specifications have been updated and are now available.Funny, this is TechEd week, and I blogged this when they were made...
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Keith Brown's, Fritz Onion's, and Aaron Skonnard'sPluralsight locationhas a new RSS feed. More to follow tomorrow ...
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This week, I received abook I had beenwaiting awhile to ship: Dan Appleman's Always Use Protection: A Teen's Guide to Safe Computing. Ever since...
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As mentioned by Samand others,Ingo Rammer's, Christian Weyer's, Christian Nagel'sand Ralf Westphal's new consulting site openedtoday...
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The book Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability I have been pointing to over the past few months has finally been released on MSDN....
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Anil John has posted an excellent introduction to one of my favorite methods of securing web sites: creatingPartial-Trust ASP.NET web sites to sandbox...
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As you may know (those who read this blog), I spend a lot of my time architecting and developing enterprise/distributed applicationsusing...
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I found an interesting article titled “Detection of SQL Injection and Cross-site Scripting Attacks“ at SecurityFocus today. Basically, it focuses on...
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As mentioned by Ted Neward, the second Architect's Journal is now available. Looks like some great articles on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA),...
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A preview of the May, 2004 MSDN Magazine (featuring Visual Studio 2005) is now available. It's an article called “Create Elegant Code with Anonymous...
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In my own research into .Net Security, one area I have explored is how to correctly set up Partial Trust websites with ASP.NET 1.1 and resources...
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One of my favorite authors, Tom Barnaby, has written a short article titled “Preparing for Indigo” in preparation for his “Get Ready for...
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I noticed yesterday the article on Throwing Custom Exception Types from a Managed COMPlus Server Application that I blogged about previously is...
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Sam Gentileposted an excellentarticle on the lack of real .Net distributed application development and examples. Othershave commented on this article...
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My friend Sam Gentile has generously added to my library of computer books by giving me nearly 1000 of his older books covering C++, COMPlus,...
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Sam Gentiledetails someof the problems our team has run into over the past few months (not just our team, but othersaswell) regarding the use ofcustom...
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For those interested, I have made the Secure Coding: Best Practices presentation slide deck available on my website. You can download it from the link...
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For those interested, I will be speaking on Secure Coding: Best Practices (as mentioned here) tonight in Waltham, MA at 6:30 pm to the BostonC# Users...
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In my everyday life, I work with both SQL Server and Oracle databases to develop databases, schemas, stored procedures, and functions as well as the...
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Congratulations to SamGentile, James Avery,and all the other new MVPs! Its a well-deserved recognition for a year (in some cases, many years!) of...
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Last week was an interesting one. I spent a lot of time hunting down an Enterprise Services issue, that became a Windows Server 2003 issue, that...
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I have been spending most of this week (yes, even on New Year's Day as well!) working out some issues I have been having with Enterprise Services...
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