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10/21/2015
I am speaking tonight to the group I lead:Boston .NET Architecture Groupon the intersection between latest in the .NET Framework and some software...
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I am out this week speaking at TECHIntersectionon Threat Modeling (see herefor more info).In my absense, I askedJason Haleyto lead a panel with Steve...
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I received notice today I have been awarded a Microsoft MVP for 2015 in the area of Developer Security.Thank you Microsoft, my new MVP lead, and all...
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As I mentioned here, I spoke on "Preparing for ASP.NET 5" a couple of times this past week. Here are the slides and code:Western Mass Microsoft...
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I will be speaking on "Preparing for ASP.NET 5" at Microsoft DevBostonon April 2, 2015 at 6:00 pm at Microsoft - Cambridge, MA.I plan to show a few...
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This month, I will be speaking on "Preparing for ASP.NET 5" for two events:Western Mass Microsoft Technology Users Group on March 19, 2015 at 5:30pm -...
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As I mentioned in my last post, I will be handing out a few copies of the book Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual by John...
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The Boston .NET Architecture Groupwill be celebrating our 10th Anniverary this Wednesday. I and a few others began the group ten years ago in...
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I will be speaking at the Connecticut .NET Developers Group that will be held at the Microsoft offices in Farmington, CT on September 14, 2010.
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I haven't spoke at a conference for awhile but I plan to offer several sessions at the New England Code Camp 14 that will be held at the Microsoft...
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I have recently finished writing a comprehensive training course on ASP.NET MVC 2 with C#. I am now offering this 3-day course through my independent...
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Like Dominick Baier and Christian Weyerof Thinktecture, I also wondered why I couldn't use a UsernameToken with Transport Security in WCF v.1. I...
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Once again, for the 4th year in a row, I enjoyed the one conference I make sure to book well in advance. I haven't traveled to conferences as much...
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Over the weekend at the New England Code Camp 7 conference, I mentioned briefly about some of the potential security problems with AJAX. Dana Epp has...
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I have posted the slide decks and demo code I used for my talks this past weekend at the New England Code Camp 7 - Deer in Headlightsconference. You...
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I found a veryencouraging announcement today: SANS has created the new Software Security Institute (SSI) (link) which is aexam program designed to...
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I will be speaking this weekend, March 31-April 1, at the New England Code Camp 7: Deer in Headlights located at the Microsoft, Waltham, MA offices. I...
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I will be speaking tomorrow night on "Threat Modeling for Web Applications" at the Western Mass .NET User Group meeting in Easthampton, MA. The...
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I have been heads down design and coding for the last 2 1/2 half weeks on an interesting WCF project (yes, unfortunately, even over the holidays -- I...
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I will be speaking at the Western Mass .NET Users Group tonight on the topic "Unit Testing and Test Driven Development (TDD)". This is an older topic...
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Yesterday, I used the wonderful tools from SysInternals for troubleshooting some of the new VC++ 2005 SxS issues I had with my port from VC++ 2003 to...
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I have been heads down the last 24 hours finishing some porting of VS 2003 C++ code to VS 2005 C++ and a Java socket server to a .NET 2.0 equivalent...
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My slides for the Boston Code Camp 6 this past weekend have been posted on my site. My sessions were well attended and I got very good comments on...
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My plans have changed for this weekend, so I will be presenting more topics at the Boston Code Camp 6 (the schedule has been posted). This time, the...
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I have been busy with a great architecture project lately that I have mentioned previously. I have also been finalizing slides and demos and making...
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I am pleased to announce a new study group is being formed in the Boston area. The official title is: Boston .NET Architecture Study Group. We will...
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A little late, but I have posted the slides and code for my talk last week at the Connecticut .NET User Group meeting last week. I went through and...
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I will be speaking at the Beantown .NET User Group meeting, Boston, from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm on Thursday, September 7. Here is the topic and...
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I will be speaking at the Connecticut .NET Users Group meeting tomorrow night, August 22, at the Microsoft Farmington Office. I will be speaking on...
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Occasionally, I am called upon to do a security code review. I enjoy the process and I recommend it to every shop that writes software to regularly...
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I am working in Western Massachusetts these days and I had a chance to check out the local Western Mass .NET Users Group meeting last night. Julie...
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I have been silent for the last month or so, but I am hoping to get back into writing again. July was an eventful month for me. I turned 38 (July 10),...
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One of my talks at the New England Code Camp 5 was "Threat Modeling for Web Applications". At the end of the talk, I did a demo showing the new Threat...
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A little late (voting ends today at 5:00 pm), but I have submitted a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session for TechEd 2006:Developing as a...
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This is great news! The much awaited (by myself and many others) release of Rotor 2.0 has been released. Get it here.Here is what is new:- Full...
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The Microsoft ACE Team has put together a specific blog on Threat Modeling [found again (again as inI can't remember where I saw the original link...
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I installed the latest Vista 5308 (as released to MSDN subscribers as the Feb CTP version) and so far, I haven't been able to get IIS to install. Has...
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This has been circulating among the .NET security community for several months, and now finally, we have "official" word that Windows Communication...
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Dominick Baierhas posted (titled Beware (=be aware) of ClickOnce default Settings) some startling results from research he completed with the .NET 2.0...
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Chip Andrews points to this articlecalled Ten hacker tricks to exploit SQL Server systemsby Kevin Beaver. In my opinion, this article is good for many...
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Aaron Margosis is posting a series of posts on "LUA" bugs, including what they are (and what aren't bugs) and how to fix them. As always, excellent...
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I often get questions at conferences about the new ASP.NET 2.0 security features including membership and role management. Also, in particular, I get...
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Yesterday's session on "Leveraging .NET 2.0 Security Features" went quite well. I have posted slides and code on my site here.This was the first time...
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I have been doing a fair amount of development in VC++, Java, and .NET 2.0 lately for one large project that is finally winding down after almost a...
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Microsoft released a new whitepaper from theMicrosoft Solutions for Security and Compliance group (MSSC) on "Applying the Principle of Least Privilege...
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Congratulations to all new and returning MVPs!I have been awarded again (2nd year) as a Microsoft Security Developer MVP for 2006. It has been a great...
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I hope and wish everyone a very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2006! I am finally catching up on some blog reading this weekend and found a couple of...
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It has been a busy month and a half since I last blogged -- too busy. But, it has been fun as I have done a few security code audits, lots of...
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I will be speaking tonight to the New England SQL Server User Group at Microsoft in Waltham, MA. My friend Andrew Novick will give a talk on SQL...
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The MAD Security Code Camp site has been updated with photos from the event. This one is priceless.
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I will be speaking on Threat Modeling for Web Applications at the local OWASP Boston chapter meeting on November 2, at the Microsoft, Waltham, MA...
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My friends Adam Machanic and Andrew Novick led a Mini SQL Server Code Camp last Saturday in Waltham, MA. I was originally planned to attend, but...
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I had a great time in Orlando at VSLive!. The hotel we stayed at (Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel)is amazing! This hotel is HUGE ... several of us...
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I was excited to see Shawn Farkas' article available on "Discover Techniques for Safely Hosting Untrusted Add-Ins with the .NET Framework 2.0", which...
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I will be speaking at the Mid-Atlantic (MAD) Security Code Camp at the Microsoft offices in Reston, VA on October 29. I am really looking forward to...
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Brian Johnson has written a new article on MSDN describing the new security features of Visual Studio 2005. Take a look -- I have been playing with...
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I am catching up after another very successful New England Code Camp weekend. I am getting ready to head out to the MVP Global Summit 2005in Seattle,...
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I have been working on severalpresentations on security,SQL Server, and transactions topicsfor upcoming conferences and user group talks. These always...
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Kirk Allen Evans talks about his adventures in discussing with several at PDC one of my past favorite topics: distributed transactions. I have renewed...
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I noticed Dino Viehland posted a notice regarding fiber mode support in SQLCLR for SQL Server 2005: Fiber mode is gone...I remember following Dino's...
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A couple of weeks ago while flying to and from Microsoft in Redmond, I read most of this book (still finishing it between bits of spare time on my...
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Nigel Watling (great start of a blog, by the way -- subscribed! RSS) has a very nice summary of some material on developing as a non-administrator and...
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Shawn Farkas has posted an excellent summary of the newest features and changes for Security in .NET 2.0 on his blog. He also links to Keith Brown and...
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I am putting this here as a nice placeholder (for myself and others):The patterns and practices folks have just updated their list of Security-related...
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Thom Robbins mentions a Mini Code Camp for SQL Server Programming: From 2000 to 2005. This will be on October 22 (Saturday), from 8:30 AM - 5:00...
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Rick Samona has a webcast on MSDN TV discussing how developers can write secure code using the new enhancements in Visual Studio 2005. Take about...
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Richard Turner (Product Manager in Microsoft's Web Services Strategy team), has published the first of a series of papers that provides guidance on...
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I will be speaking at the Heartland Developers Conference 2005 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on October 12-14, 2005. My topic will be Security Changes in .NET...
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Paul Fallonposts some good news (and excellent description) aboutEnterprise Services in .NET 2.0. Systems.Transactions already features Transaction...
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For a slightly different change of pace for me, I will be speaking at the New England Visual Basic Professionals User Group meetingat the Microsoft...
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Concurrency is a topic I have been interested in over the last year, but especially over the last six months with one of my consultingprojects...
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As Don and Julie mention, the first Indigo programming book, Programming Indigo : Code Name for the Unified Framework for Building Service-Oriented...
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It's been a busy week, but I had a chance to attenda talk this week. By chance, I happened to catch the local OWASP (Open Web Application Security...
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In my daily life as a consultant, I work on solving problems for clients. That usually means one of two things: I develop new solutions from scratch...
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Larry Ostermanoffers some words of wisdom regarding the differnce between a developer understanding cryptography (as in "which algorithm should I use"...
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I spent the last couple of days at VSLive! Boston. I gave a talk on Wednesday on "Writing Secure Plug-Ins Applications in .NET". You can pick up the...
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I was informed that today it is official: I have been moved from the Visual C# MVP group into the newly formed Application Developer Security MVP...
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Looking around, I found a few interesting East Coast freeevents that are soon or in the future:Richard Hale Shaw is speaking on various C# 2.0...
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Adam captured some of the fun the SQL Server bloggers had before DevTeachhere.
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One highlight (among many) of my stay in Montreal for DevTeachwas meeting Montreal natives Nicole Calinoiu and her husband Michel Bordeleau for dinner...
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This week has been extremely busy with catching up after TechEd, getting the latest SQL Server 2005 June CTP installed on a VPC, playing with the...
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I arrived Sunday noon. It was a little early for check-in to my hotel (not one of the standard TechEd hotels, unfortunately), so the rooms weren't...
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One of my first published articles came out a few days agoin the June, 2005 issue of .NET Developers Journal.This is a security focused issue with...
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I have been spending most of the day clearing out some work and getting ready for my trip to TechEd early tomorrow morning (Sunday). If your there, I...
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This is a great announcement for those interested in architecture topics:"Shortly after joining the Architecture Strategy Team, we worked with MSDN to...
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Eric Marvets, the Security Samurai, who spoke at last weekend's Atlanta Code Camp, now has a security blog. Eric did some work for me (through my...
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This is a nice welcome addition to the threat modeling literature, and especially for web application security. Take a look. Excellent resource!...
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I scheduled some time ago to attend Devscovery next week in Washington, DC, but I have now had to postpone it to the next time which is at theend of...
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The TechEd BOF (Birds of a Feather) voting is over and mine wasaccepted. Here is the schedule:Developing software as a non-administrator -Wed, June...
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I was planning toattend the "Got Indigo?" Day at Microsoft, Waltham, MA, but have had to put some hours in on finishing my current project. I will be...
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I was asked last week and informed Friday that I was selected to be one of the Technical Experts at the Connected Systems Infrastructure (CSI) Track...
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Here is an interesting find (a placemark for me mostly): Indogo SDR dry-runs that are in the form of webcasts. Gene Webb has the links here. [Found by...
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As you may know, the long awaited Windows Server 2003 SP1 has finally reached RTM. Here is some technical information, and a Top Ten feature...
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I noticed over the last couple of days my "Writing Secure Plug-in Applications in .NET" session is listed for VSLive! Boston. This talk is similar to...
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My friend Kevin Hegg mentioned this link to me on Friday, but it wasn't live yet. But, it is now: Michael Howard mentions it's "live" status at...
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There is an MSDN TV overview of writing partially trusted applications with ASP.NET [found by way of Dominick Baier].
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Have you tried installing SQL Server 2005 yet? If so, how did it go for you?There is a survey the SQL Server team would like you to fill out:The Yukon...
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I submitted one of the first TechEd Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions on this topic:Developing software as a non-administratorWe have all heard we...
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I will be speaking tonight on .NET Security 101 at the Connecticut Access UsersGroup in Farmington, CT (correction: not in Hartford, but near...
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I got the same email as Romanregarding the availability of the SQL Server 2005 3rd CTP:Today, Microsoft released the third Community Technical Preview...
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By now, I am sure you have seen or heardthe news about SHA1 being broken. In a somewhat timely fashion, I had been (re)reading Bruce Schnier and Niels...
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Daniele Muscetta (of Microsoft) posted a nice summary of some recent articles on Rootkits. He also included information on SysInternals' latest...
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I saw this last night, and Dana Epp has posted a pointer:Peter Torr has done it again. He has written an EXCELLENTarticle on writing a practical...
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I will be speaking at DevTeach this year in Montreal, Canada on June 18-22, 2005.My topics (so far -- waiting on a couple of other proposals, but this...
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Check outChannel 9's interview of Suzanne Cook on the CLR Loader. Great interview!Suzanne's blogwas a big help to mewhen I was working through some...
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As you may know, and Sam points out, Indigo was unleashed today!Watch the video of Eric Rudder and Ari Bixhorn's keynotepresenting Indigo at the...
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I will be speaking to the Rhode Island .NET Users Group (Providence, RI)on February 10. My topic is on security:Secure Coding for the .NET...
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Joe Stagner is starting the Digital Blackbelt webcast series on security this Friday with the following topic:MSDN Webcast: Digital Blackbelt Series:...
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[By way of Brian Johnson] Take Advantage of ASP.NET Built-in Features to Fend Off Web AttacksDino summarizes the most common types of Web attacks and...
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I really like Ken Brubaker's post on Distilled: The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Securitywhere he has summarized every item in Keith Brown's...
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This new series of Webcasts looks to be very good.Sign up at http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/series/digitalblackbelt.mspx.
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I have added another topic to the ever growing data track for the upcoming New England Code Camp 3:SQL Server 2005 SecurityThis talk will focus on...
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Congratulations to Werner Vogelson becoming the new CTO of Amazon.com![found by way of Julia Lerman]
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My friend Aaron already posted I will be liveon .NET Rocks this week, so I will mention it as well.
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I have been busy ramping up for some new work through my company lately (which I will mention in another post), and one resource I have looked forward...
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[Per a post on DOTNET-ROTOR list]Per previous private email to project owners and announcement on Rotor mailing lists, SSCLI.NET is being closed down....
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Here is avery nice surprise for the new year: I havebeen awarded the Microsoft MVP statusfor Visual C# for 2005!Of course, I know this doesn't...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Since working with EnterpriseServices (ES), I have found some of the nicer features that are available through COMPlus 1.5 (on Windows XP and Windows...
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Sam points to NAnt 0.84 Final being released. Along with that, I found that the latest NAntContrib Project has been released as well. For tips on...
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Scott Koons posted an interesting comment to my earlier post:Am I alone in thinking that there NEEDS to be a "Effective C#" and "Effective VB.NET",...
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Last night, I had the opportunity to speak to the New Hampshire .Net Users Groupabout .Net Security, in particular speaking about User (Role-Based)...
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My friend Andrew has been doing a lot of research lately to find more information on Rotor beyond the excellent Rotor book (Shared Source CLI...
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Lars Bergstrom wrote an article for MSDN a few months ago called “Developing Software in Visual Studio .NET with Non-Administrative Privileges” and it...
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Another task I am working on is extensive performance and scalability testing for a large Distributed .Net project.Our approach is to set up tests...
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Andrew talks about continued Rotor research. Plus, Joel Pobar, a PM on the CLR team focusing on Rotor, has a Rotor blog. Subscribed.
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Sammentions his COM Interop article series has begun on MSDN. The first installment “Has Anyone Seen the Bridge?” gives an overview of why bridges are...
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I have been immersed in Code Access Security (CAS) this weekend as we ramp up .Net security for an ASP.Net/Enterprise Services (ES) project.This book...
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Eric Albert has successfully ported and tested Rotor (SSCLI) on Panther (on Mac OS X) [by way of Sam]. Panther is based on FreeBSD 5.1. That is great...
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After seeing the news about RedHat Linux discontinuing all support for versions 7-8 and 9, Andrew and I have been wondering about our Rotor/Linux...
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CarlProthman, in his PDC summary, expresses his dislike of PDC not focusing on current technology as well as new (unreleased) technology. I understand...
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Tim Sneath has posted several excellentarticles/notesfrom the PDC Security Symposium held today. He may post more, but at this point, here are his...
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Last night, I had a chance to watch/listento Joe Long, Product Unit Manager for XML Enterprise Services at Microsoft, talk about the migration path...
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Clemenscomments that Don Box's talk on Indigo showed the importance of design and architecture, not so much in demo code, but in the content of his...
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Benjamingives some of the main pointsfrom the Rotor Futures BOF held last night. This BOF, in particular, was one I was very interested in at PDC. A...
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You can find the list of PDC Sessionsincluding updates with PowerPoint slides, demos, etc.
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According to Scott Hanselman, who is currently blogging Bill Gates' Keynote as I write this:* Showing MSBuild. Holy crap it smells like NAnt. Wow,...
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Clemens posts his 2-sentance definition of Indigo:Indigo is the successor technology and the consolidation of DCOM, COMPlus, Enterprise Services,...
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One item of note Sam mentioned in his Rotor BOF summaryOne thing I encouragepeople to do is look at Rotor on FreeBSD 5.1 the latest and help with any...
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Dan Fernandezpoints out (among other things -- follow his link) another place to get the goods:Even if you're not going to be at PDC, check out PDC...
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Eric Sink, of SourceGearVault fame, points to a Microsoft case study regarding their SourceOffSite product. It was ported from Visual J++to C# in less...
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For those of us (especially) who are not going to PDC, the C# 2.0 Specification is now available. For those fortunate 7500 or so that ARE going to...
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After a long detour through the world of VB/COMPlus, my primary project is finally moving back to .Net. One item we are looking at again is the build...
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Michael Howard, one of my favorite security guys, and co-author of Writing Secure Code, Second Edition, has a blog. Subscribed!
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According to LauraJ, the newhttp://blogs.gotdotnet.comhome page is live. All the blogs (86 in total) are sorted by name and work area, along with RSS...
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Following up on my security emphasislately, the November, 2003 MSDN magazine is full of greatinformation on security. You candownload the HTML Help...
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Since my post on unit testing for Oracle/SQL Server, I have been informed there is an open source unit tester available for SQL Server (Transact-SQL)...
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Continuing on the topicof studying .Net Patterns, I have noticedcomments to my blog post that Christian Thilmany's book .NET Patterns: Architecture,...
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This past week, I concluded my talk on Security Coding: Best Practices. This was a continuation of Part 1 that I started last week. In particular, I...
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This past week, I completed the first partof my talks on Security Coding: Best Practicesat my work place. I didn't get as much covered as I had hoped,...
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I found this great PowerPoint presentation done byJason Whittingtonlast year called Inside Rotor - Poking at the SSCLI for fun and profit. I found it...
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Yesterday and today, I was in Vermont with Sam at the User Group meeting. Sam was presentingan INETA talk on the CLR. Along with others in the group,...
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Continuing my journey into Rotor, I finally got my RedHat Linux 9.0 running through VirtualPC 5.2. Thanks again to Charles Cook and Joseph Cooney for...
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I am wondering if there is current interest in .Net Patterns Study Groups?At work, our team is planning to meet regularly to talk about some of the...
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I found this list of good Secure Coding resources on the MSDN Security section. Here is a summary of the list of articles:Getting StartedMSDN How-To...
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One of best books I have seen lately is .NET Patterns: Architecture, Design, and Process by Christian Thilmany:In the tradition of the GoF Book...
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I was noticing John Lam's two posts this morning on .Net Security: Securing ASP.NET using Enterprise Services and Improving Web Application Security:...
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Eric's post on F5 is what I was trying to say with my E&C post last month, but Eric does it much better.
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This past weekend, I was playing around with VirtualPC 5.2, much like others. In particular, since my journey into VMWare, I wanted to see how this...
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Last month, I mentioned that Don Box talked about Generics at the Boston Dot Net Users Group meeting. I didn't mention that he also talked about...
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As with my previous post, I am working on my FreeBSD 4.8 Release tonight. Last week, I had problems getting the CD-Rom to mount correctly (which, of...
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Last night, Sam and I went to the New Hampshire .Net User Group to hear Larry Kim speak about XML Schema and other topics concerning Advanced XML Data...
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Chris Brumme has a new informative post on startup, shutdown, and other related issues in the CLR.
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Ingo is starting a new book. He is also blogging about it:If you want to track the progress of this book, head to http://www.ingorammer.com/BookBlog/...
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Ingo has just become a Microsoft Regional Director:Regional Directors aren't Microsoft employees--they're independent developers, architects,...
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Last week, I tried to install my new FreeBSD on my new laptop as a dual boot partition, but ran into problems since my first bootable partition had...
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Just got back from listening to Don Box give the keynote at the Boston Dot Net Users Group meeting tonight.Don talked about Generics, and some new...
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Both Doug and Sam talk about taking responsibility for our own professional development careers.Like others, I am paying my own way for PDC. No one...
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I took the FreeBSD plunge yesterday with a purchase of the full 4.8 (Stable) developer edition. I plan on installing the OS, plus I plan on compiling...
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Sam has posted a link to an Interoperability page at Microsoft that contains a lot of information on COM Interop.
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I completely agree with Frans in his latest post.
After having used Unit Testing for the last several years, it...
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This past Saturday night, three of our team members (Greg, Sam and I) got together for a social event at Sam's house. Of course, we...
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Get the latest .Net Reflector version (3.3.0.0) that was released July 17.
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Don Boxcompares CLR delegates to COM monikers.
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Eric Sink (CEO of SourceGear that produces Vault) and Matthew Reynolds have both been talking about how great Vault is over SourceSafe. I also would...
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Sam has an excellent post about Windows 2003 Server. It's about time that we look at what we have now rather than point to the distant future...
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Sam has some info about a cool COM to .Net tool on his blog. Check it out! He gave us a practical demo today of how a tool like this could be used....
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There are several Application Blocks from Microsoft lately, but the Configuration Management Application Block (released 6/24/2003) is one I have been...
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Lately, I have been looking at Rotor to better understand the CLR and some of my own work with .Net in general. If you are not familiar with Rotor,...
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Get the new FXCop 1.21 version for your .Net compliance checking!
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