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Archives from 2004

A couple of secure coding articles

12/28/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    ASP.NET    Security   
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... Read more

January .NET Events in Boston area

12/23/2004

 .NET    Personal   
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Announcing - Boston Code Brew

12/22/2004

 .NET    Personal    Speaking   
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SQL Server Service Broker news

12/19/2004

 .NET    Database Development    Personal   
(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... Read more

Congrats to new INETA speakers

12/15/2004

 .NET    Speaking   
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Article on Penetration Testing

12/10/2004

 .NET    ASP.NET    Personal    Security    Speaking   
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PDC 2005

12/9/2004

 .NET    Personal    Speaking   
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... Read more

Code Camp III: The Madness March 12-13th

12/9/2004

 .NET    Personal    Speaking   
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Boston C# and .NET User Groups and Potluck Dinners

12/9/2004

 .NET    Extreme Programming    Personal    Security    Speaking   
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HDC 2004 Recap, Slides, and Demos

12/5/2004

 .NET    Database Development    Personal    Speaking   
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Heading to the Heartland

12/2/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Database Development    Personal    Service Orientation (SO)    Speaking    Web Services   
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Perception of System Security

11/28/2004

 .NET    Security   
Valery Pryamikov has posted an excellent article titled "On Evolution of Microsoft Perception of System Security". The article chronicles the changes... Read more

Microsoft IT Security Resources

11/28/2004

 .NET    Security   
Jerry Bryant posted a great list of Microsoft IT Security Resources (current as of November, 2004) to his blog:... Read more

Head First Design Patterns

11/25/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Books    Personal   
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... Read more

Interview on Software Factories

11/24/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Books    Personal   
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Connecticut .NET Users Group talk - slides and code

11/24/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    CLR    Database Development    Personal    Rotor    Security    Speaking   
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WSE 2.0 SP2 Pre-Release is available

11/23/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
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XP, TDD, NUnit, MbUnit, NAnt, Code Coverage, Team System, oh my

11/22/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Extreme Programming   
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Messaging Patterns in SOA

11/22/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
Some good reads recently:Part 2 of this series is out. Delve into the contract patterns that illustrate the behavioral specifications required to... Read more

CLR Team Tour

11/20/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    CLR    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Personal    Security    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
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Rotor 2.0 after Whidbey

11/19/2004

 .NET    CLR    Rotor   
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What's new for security in .NET 2.0?

11/18/2004

 .NET    .NET Remoting    ArchitecturePatterns    ASP.NET    Security   
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... Read more

Speaking to Boston C# Users Group on December 7

11/18/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Security    Speaking   
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... Read more

Revisiting .NET Patterns Study Groups

11/18/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Extreme Programming    Speaking   
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Security policy deployment and blog

11/17/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Security   
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... Read more

SOA Talks update

11/11/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Books    Security    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
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SOA Talks

11/10/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Security    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
Last night, I attended the Boston C# Users Group meeting at Microsoft, Waltham, MA where Jim Lennox was speaking on Service-Oriented Architecture... Read more

Partially-Trusted AppDomains part 2

11/9/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    CLR    Security   
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Partially-Trusted AppDomains

11/7/2004

 .NET    Security   
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Advanced notice of security bulletins

11/5/2004

 Security   
Microsoft has opened its doors to all customers with advanced notices of security bulletins. Previously, this was only available to Premier and other... Read more

Upcoming Speaking -- CT Developers Group and HDC 2004

11/2/2004

 .NET    Database Development    Personal    Security    Speaking   
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Secure AppDomain example

11/2/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    CLR    Security   
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Non-Admin resources part 2

11/2/2004

 .NET    Security   
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WinDev recap

10/30/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    CLR    Database Development    Extreme Programming    Personal    Security   
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WinDev Presentations and Code

10/30/2004

 .NET    Security   
I have posted my WinDev 2004 presentations and code on my SecureDevelop.net website:S7 - Writing Least Privileged Applications: pdf, codeS8 - Hosting... Read more

Improving Applications Security through Penetration Testing

10/30/2004

 .NET    Security   
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The moon and Red Sox

10/27/2004

 .NET    CLR    Personal    Security   
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.... Read more

Code Camp II Presentations and Demos

10/25/2004

 .NET    Personal    Security    Service Orientation (SO)    Smart Clients   
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At WinDev this week

10/25/2004

 .NET    Personal    Security   
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XML DevCon -- Doug Purdy

10/21/2004

 .NET    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
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... Read more

XML DevCon dinner

10/21/2004

 .NET    Personal    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
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... Read more

XML DevCon - Sam Ruby depresses

10/20/2004

 .NET    Personal    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
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... Read more

DevCon - Using XML for Missles

10/20/2004

 .NET    Security    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
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... Read more

Applied XML DevCon pictures

10/20/2004

 .NET    Personal    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
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... Read more

Applied XML DevCon

10/20/2004

 .NET    Personal    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
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... Read more

Developing as a Non-Admin resources

10/18/2004

 .NET    Security   
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Code Camp II Report

10/18/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Database Development    Personal    Security    Smart Clients   
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Update on a must read book on Windows Security

10/10/2004

 .NET    Personal    Security   
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ASP.NET and Defense in Depth example

10/10/2004

 .NET    ASP.NET    Security   
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Another blog for ASP.NET security

10/10/2004

 .NET    ASP.NET    Security   
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'... Read more

Bruce Schneier is blogging

10/7/2004

 Security   
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Cabana Night and Code Camp II

10/6/2004

 .NET    Personal    Security   
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ASP.NET Vulnerability

10/6/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    ASP.NET    Security   
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... Read more

Speaking at Heartland Developers Conference 2004

9/27/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Database Development    Personal    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
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... Read more

WSE 2.0 and friends

9/25/2004

 .NET    Personal    Security    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
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... Read more

Living the non-admin lifestyle

9/23/2004

 .NET    Security   
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Code Camp II updates

9/22/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Database Development    Security    Service Orientation (SO)    Smart Clients    Web Services   
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... Read more

Boston Area 4th .NET Blogger/Nerd Dinner tonight

9/22/2004

 .NET    Personal   
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! Read more

A must read book on Windows Security

9/21/2004

 .NET    Books    Security   
Yesterday, Keith Brown mentioned his new book The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security is finally shipping. I have preordered my copy from... Read more

ASP.NET 2.0 Partial Trust Web Sites

9/20/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    ASP.NET    Security   
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Are evil people attacking your web site?

9/19/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    ASP.NET    Security   
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Web Services Architecture Whitepaper

9/17/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
From Omri Gazitt:In addition to the new Transfer and Enumeration specs, we published a whitepaper today providing an overview of the Web services... Read more

Pass Phrases, Passwords, and PassFaces

9/15/2004

 Security   
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Code Camp II Blogger Dinner

9/13/2004

 .NET    Personal   
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Secure CLR Hosting in Whidbey / 2.0

9/10/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    CLR    Database Development    Personal    Security   
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Hacking the Hacme Bank

9/10/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    ASP.NET    Security   
Both Dominick Baerand Anil John are pointing to Foundstone's new sample web application (written in ASP.NET and C#)that demonstrates common security... Read more

Upcoming events

8/31/2004

 .NET    Personal    Security   
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.NET 1.1 SP1 and Vault scare -- a false alarm

8/31/2004

 .NET    Personal   
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... Read more

Developing software as non-admin on DNR

8/30/2004

 .NET    Security   
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Code Camp II is really looking good

8/30/2004

 .NET    CLR    Personal    Rotor    Security   
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... Read more

Windows XP Security reading

8/26/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Security   
Looking for some fun reading today?Brian Johnson has posted a link to the latest Windows XP Security Guide documents and toolsfrom Microsoft:The... Read more

Stopping email identity spoofing

8/25/2004

 Personal   
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Mobility Day at Microsoft, Waltham

8/18/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    ASP.NET    Database Development    Personal    Security    Smart Clients   
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CAS sample in Mono

8/18/2004

 .NET    CLR    Rotor    Security   
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Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer V1.2.1 Released

8/17/2004

 .NET    Security   
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Interesting information on going independent

8/17/2004

 .NET    Personal   
James Avery has formed his own company, Infozerk, and has been chronicling his journey into being an independent consultant. Scott Mitchell has also... Read more

C# Tools

8/17/2004

 .NET   
Aaron Weikerpoints to a nice set of C# Tools.Always good to have link to these. Read more

CLR Hosting Blog

8/17/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    CLR    Security   
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A view of the Indigo team

8/17/2004

 .NET    .NET Remoting    ArchitecturePatterns    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Personal    Security    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
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... Read more

Congrats to Beantown .NET User Group

8/16/2004

 .NET    Personal    Security   
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Speaking at Microsoft's Code Camp II

8/13/2004

 .NET    Security    Smart Clients   
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... Read more

Chris Sells' Applied XML Developer’s Conference

8/13/2004

 .NET    Personal    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
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... Read more

nmap and XP SP2

8/12/2004

 Security   
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... Read more

A First Look at SQL Server 2005 for Developers

8/11/2004

 .NET    ADO.NET    Books    CLR    Database Development    Security   
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... Read more

Advanced Data Access with ADO.NET and Oracle

8/11/2004

 .NET    ADO.NET    Database Development    Security   
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Windows XP SP2 experiences

8/10/2004

 .NET    Personal   
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SysInternals and Windows XP SP2

8/10/2004

 .NET   
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... Read more

Simple and interesting solution for hidden root kits

8/10/2004

 Security   
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ASP.NET 2.0 Internals

8/10/2004

 .NET    ASP.NET   
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Windows XP SP2 network installation package is available

8/9/2004

 .NET    Security   
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SQL Server 2005 Blogs

8/9/2004

 .NET    Database Development   
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... Read more

NUnit 2.2 Final

8/9/2004

 .NET    Extreme Programming   
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... Read more

Miguel on .NET Rocks

8/9/2004

 .NET    CLR    Rotor   
If you missed it, the recording of Miguel de Icasa (of Mono fame) is on .NET Rocks this week. Read more

Jason Whittington is blogging again

8/7/2004

 .NET    Personal    Rotor   
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... Read more

Speaking on CAS tonight in Boston

8/5/2004

 .NET    Rotor    Security   
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... Read more

WinDbg review

8/3/2004

 ArchitecturePatterns   
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Threat Modeling review

8/3/2004

 .NET    Books    Security   
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... Read more

IronPython and new hires

8/2/2004

 .NET    CLR    Rotor   
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... Read more

Smart Client Architecture and Design Guide

7/31/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Books    Security    Smart Clients   
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... Read more

WSE 2.0 SP1 is out

7/29/2004

 .NET    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
Go get it: Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 2.0 SP1 for Microsoft .NET Read more

Password information and passphrase advice

7/28/2004

 .NET    Security   
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Essential ASP.NET 2.0 and Technical Writing/Speaking

7/22/2004

 .NET    Books   
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... Read more

ECMAScript and C-Omega link?

7/21/2004

 .NET    CLR   
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Session Hijacking article

7/20/2004

 .NET    ASP.NET    Security   
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... Read more

Have you been hacked?

7/20/2004

 .NET    Security   
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WSE 2.0 SP1 changes

7/16/2004

 .NET    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
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Secure Coding slides, running as non-admin

7/16/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Security   
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... Read more

Clemens on .NET Rocks this week

7/14/2004

 .NET    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
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Frank Swiderski talks about his Threat Modeling Tool

7/12/2004

 .NET    Books    Security   
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.NET Happenings around Boston

7/10/2004

 .NET   
A couple of .NET happenings in the Boston area:1. Jason Haley organized the 1st Boston .NETBlogger Dinner, and now has organized the second... Read more

Jim Miller on TSS.NET

7/8/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    CLR    Rotor   
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... Read more

Don Kiely on Least Privilege in Vermont

7/8/2004

 .NET    ASP.NET    Database Development    Security   
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Using SecureString now

7/7/2004

 .NET    Security   
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Speaking on Code Access Security to Downtown Boston .NET User Group on August 5

7/7/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Security   
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SQL Express Beta 2 experiences

7/5/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    CLR    Database Development    Security   
Sam talks about hisexperiences with the new SQLExpress Beta 2 Edition. Heis frustrated by the lack of UI tools (in particular, the publicized tool... Read more

Mono hits 1.0 target

7/1/2004

 .NET    CLR   
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.... Read more

Frank Swiderski is blogging

7/1/2004

 .NET    Security   
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New Boston .Net User Group starts tonight

6/30/2004

 .NET   
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Threat Modeling book, Part 2

6/29/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Books    Security   
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FABRIQ is available

6/25/2004

 .NET    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
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Code Complete: Second Edition book

6/25/2004

 ArchitecturePatterns    Books   
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... Read more

Assessing Network Security book

6/25/2004

 Books    Security   
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Tim Ewald blogging again

6/24/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
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... Read more

DevTeach 2004 Notes

6/24/2004

 .NET    ADO.NET    ArchitecturePatterns    ASP.NET    Database Development    Web Services   
Dave Burke has posted some great notes about the sessions he attended at DevTeach 2004 in... Read more

WS Plumbing Group

6/23/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Security    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
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Threat Modeling book

6/23/2004

 .NET    Books    Security   
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Speaking to Boston .Net Users Group on Security

6/23/2004

 .NET    Security   
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Enterprise Services and TDD part 2

6/22/2004

 .NET    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Database Development    Extreme Programming   
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Enterprise Services and TDD

6/21/2004

 .NET    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Extreme Programming   
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New Boston .Net Group starting July 1

6/19/2004

 .NET    CLR   
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... Read more

XP SP2 RC2 and Distributed Transactions

6/18/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    COMPlus EnterpriseServices   
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CAS and Partially Trusted Code

6/18/2004

 .NET    ASP.NET    Security    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
Maxim V. Karpov has written a great article on Code Access Security (CAS) – "Guilty until proven Innocent" (Partially Trusted Code) which talks... Read more

Learn to run as non-Admin

6/17/2004

 .NET    Security   
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Windows XP SP2 RC2 is available

6/15/2004

 .NET    Security   
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Virtual Server 2005, Enterprise Edition, RC is available

6/15/2004

 .NET   
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Unit Testing in Visual Studio 2005

6/14/2004

 .NET    Extreme Programming   
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Indigo misperceptions

6/11/2004

 .NET    .NET Remoting    ArchitecturePatterns    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
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Threat Modeling Resource Page

6/8/2004

 .NET    Security   
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SQL Server Developer Center

6/2/2004

 .NET    Database Development   
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Jim Newkirk (NUnit) is blogging

6/2/2004

 .NET    Extreme Programming   
Jim Newkirk is blogging. Subscribed! Read more

TDD and VS Test System

5/28/2004

 .NET    Extreme Programming   
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Early CLR explanations

5/28/2004

 .NET    CLR   
Bradpoints to a great early DM post by Brian Harry (who has started blogging!) on the explanation of resource management and why deterministic... Read more

Another TDD success story

5/28/2004

 .NET    Database Development    Extreme Programming   
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Principle of least privilege

5/27/2004

 .NET    Security   
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ObjectSharp Consulting gets some new folks

5/27/2004

 .NET   
Some more changes! John Lam mentioned today that he has leftWintellect and joinedObjectSharpin Toronto (along with Marcie Robillard aka DataGrid... Read more

Threat Modeling Tool available

5/25/2004

 .NET    Security   
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TechEd Day 2: SQL Server 2000 Best Practices Analyzer

5/25/2004

 .NET    Database Development   
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TechEd Day 2: Managing state across layers

5/25/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Database Development    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
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SO Prescriptive Guidance

5/25/2004

 .NET    .NET Remoting    ArchitecturePatterns    CLR    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Security    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
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Pluralsight live!

5/25/2004

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Another great SO perspective

5/25/2004

 .NET    .NET Remoting    ADO.NET    ArchitecturePatterns    ASP.NET    CLR    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Database Development    Service Orientation (SO)    Web Services   
Michele Leroux Bustamantealso has a great post sumarizingDon Box'sand Doug Purdy's presentation “Service Orientation and the Developer” Read more

WSE 2.0 available

5/24/2004

 .NET    Security    Web Services   
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Visual Studio 2005 Team System

5/24/2004

 .NET   
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TechEd Day 1 summaries

5/24/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Service Orientation (SO)   
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... Read more

Pluralsight update

5/24/2004

 .NET    Personal   
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... Read more

New SCC from Microsoft

5/24/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Database Development    Web Services   
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C# 2.0 Language Specifications Updated

5/24/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    CLR   
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... Read more

Visual SlickEdit 9, C++ Refactoring, and VS.NET

5/23/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Extreme Programming    Personal   
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TechNet Security Briefings slide decks

5/23/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Security   
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SQL Server Security book

5/23/2004

 .NET    Books    Database Development    Security   
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Pluralsight happenings ...

5/23/2004

 .NET   
Keith Brown's, Fritz Onion's, and Aaron Skonnard'sPluralsight locationhas a new RSS feed. More to follow tomorrow ... Read more

ASP.NET and RemotingConfiguration.Configure()

5/22/2004

 .NET    .NET Remoting    ArchitecturePatterns    ASP.NET   
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Patterns and Practices site update

5/20/2004

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NUnit updated to 2.2 Beta 1

5/20/2004

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Rotor RFP2

5/18/2004

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Ramblings on Enterprise Services

5/16/2004

 .NET    .NET Remoting    ArchitecturePatterns    ASP.NET    CLR    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Database Development    Security    Web Services   
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Latest Rotor 1.0 Patch Updates

5/14/2004

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PC security for teenagers

5/12/2004

 Books    Security   
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... Read more

Microsoft eLearning Courses on Security

5/12/2004

 .NET    ADO.NET    ArchitecturePatterns    ASP.NET    CLR    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Database Development    Security    Web Services   
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Thinktecture consulting site open

5/10/2004

 .NET    .NET Remoting    ArchitecturePatterns    CLR    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Web Services   
As mentioned by Samand others,Ingo Rammer's, Christian Weyer's, Christian Nagel'sand Ralf Westphal's new consulting site openedtoday... Read more

Test-Driven Development in Microsoft.NET book

5/5/2004

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Speaking at WinDev 2004

5/5/2004

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Rotor Whidbey on Longhorn

5/5/2004

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Keith Brown's (and others) new location

5/5/2004

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Coder to Developer book

5/5/2004

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Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability released

4/28/2004

 .NET    .NET Remoting    ADO.NET    ArchitecturePatterns    ASP.NET    Books    CLR    COM Interop    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Database Development    Security    Web Services   
The book Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability I have been pointing to over the past few months has finally been released on MSDN.... Read more

ASP.NET Partial-Trust web sites

4/28/2004

 .NET    ASP.NET    Security   
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... Read more

Security in Longhorn: Focus on Least Privilege

4/23/2004

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Checking out nTierGen

4/23/2004

 .NET    .NET Remoting    ADO.NET    ArchitecturePatterns    CLR    COM Interop    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Web Services   
As you may know (those who read this blog), I spend a lot of my time architecting and developing enterprise/distributed applicationsusing... Read more

Detection of SQL Injection and Cross-site Scripting Attacks

4/14/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    ASP.NET    Security   
I found an interesting article titled “Detection of SQL Injection and Cross-site Scripting Attacks“ at SecurityFocus today. Basically, it focuses on... Read more

Second Architectural Journal available

4/13/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Security    Web Services   
As mentioned by Ted Neward, the second Architect's Journal is now available. Looks like some great articles on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA),... Read more

Flex, .Net, and Flash Remoting info

4/12/2004

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Create Elegant Code with Anonymous Methods, Iterators, and Partial Classes

4/5/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    CLR   
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... Read more

Processes to Develop Secure Software

4/1/2004

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Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability, Beta 3

4/1/2004

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.Net Enterprise Services Performance

3/29/2004

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Chris Sells discovers TDD

3/28/2004

 .NET    CLR    Extreme Programming    Rotor   
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Understand the dangers of Fully Trusted Code

3/26/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    ASP.NET    CLR    Security   
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... Read more

.NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol1

3/25/2004

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Preparing for Indigo

3/24/2004

 .NET    .NET Remoting    ArchitecturePatterns    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Security    Web Services   
One of my favorite authors, Tom Barnaby, has written a short article titled “Preparing for Indigo” in preparation for his “Get Ready for... Read more

Remoting and Security Updates

3/23/2004

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Quality software means more secure software

3/18/2004

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CLR, Rotor, and Textpad in NH

3/17/2004

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Recommended Application Security books

3/8/2004

 Books    Security   
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EnterpriseServices/COMPlus, DCOM, and Firewalls

3/7/2004

 .NET    .NET Remoting    ArchitecturePatterns    COM Interop    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Security    Web Services   
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Microsoft Security Guidance CD

3/2/2004

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Further clarification

2/26/2004

 .NET    .NET Remoting    ADO.NET    ArchitecturePatterns    ASP.NET    COM Interop    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Database Development    Security    Web Services   
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Custom Exceptions and EnterpriseServices, Part 2

2/24/2004

 .NET    .NET Remoting    ADO.NET    ArchitecturePatterns    ASP.NET    CLR    COM Interop    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Database Development    Security   
I noticed yesterday the article on Throwing Custom Exception Types from a Managed COMPlus Server Application that I blogged about previously is... Read more

Clarification on distributed data security

2/18/2004

 .NET    .NET Remoting    ArchitecturePatterns    ASP.NET    COM Interop    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Database Development    Security    Web Services   
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Distributed data security

2/14/2004

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Security Warrior

2/13/2004

 Books    Security   
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Real distributed application development

2/12/2004

 .NET    .NET Remoting    ArchitecturePatterns    ASP.NET    CLR    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Database Development    Security    Web Services   
Sam Gentileposted an excellentarticle on the lack of real .Net distributed application development and examples. Othershave commented on this article... Read more

Adding to my library

2/10/2004

 Books   
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,... Read more

Custom Exceptions in EnterpriseServices

2/5/2004

 .NET    .NET Remoting    ArchitecturePatterns    COM Interop    COMPlus EnterpriseServices   
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... Read more

Secure Coding Presentation Available

2/4/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    ASP.NET    Database Development    Security   
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... Read more

OWASP Top Ten for 2004

2/4/2004

 .NET    ASP.NET    Database Development    Security    Web Services   
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Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Bug in ASP.NET 1.1

2/4/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    ASP.NET    Database Development    Security   
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Speaking to CSharp Users Group tonight on Secure Coding

2/3/2004

 .NET    Security   
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... Read more

Virtual PC 2004 and Longhorn

2/1/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    CLR   
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Using Threat Analysis to Design More Secure Systems

2/1/2004

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Watch for SQL Injection in Oracle

1/24/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    Database Development    Security   
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... Read more

Authorization and Profile Application Block

1/22/2004

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Congratulations new MVPs!

1/21/2004

 .NET   
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... Read more

Assembly size does matter to VS.NET

1/21/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Extreme Programming   
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Speaking to Boston C# Users Group on Secure Coding: Best Practices

1/17/2004

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FlexWiki and URLScan

1/17/2004

 .NET    ASP.NET    Extreme Programming    Security   
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Demystifying the .NET Global Assembly Cache

1/15/2004

 .NET    CLR    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Security   
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COMPlus/Enterprise Services, Distributed Transactions and Oracle - Problem Solved: oramts.dll

1/14/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    COMPlus EnterpriseServices    Database Development   
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Enterprise Services Results: It works

1/12/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    COMPlus EnterpriseServices   
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... Read more

Enterprise Services Issues and Info

1/2/2004

 .NET    ArchitecturePatterns    COMPlus EnterpriseServices   
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... Read more

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