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1/1/2008
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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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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 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 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 was questioned briefly last week forthis article in Computerworld:Robert Hurlbut, an independent software consultant in Worcester, Mass., said SQL...
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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...
Read more 9/26/2005
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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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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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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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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(purely personal)From the math side of me:Today, my age = ((4! * 3)/ 2) + 1Or, put another way,my age is a prime number, as well as this...
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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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I received this book, Honeypots for Windows by Roger A. Grimes (published by Apress), a couple of months ago to review. I have read a chapter hear and...
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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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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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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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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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(Purely personal)Thom Robbins has done a great thing and brought Star Wars 3 to New England (OK, not really -- it was already going to be here, but...
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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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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 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 just noticed this today and was sad to learn that Hans Bethedied on Sunday at the age of 98. Bethe was one of the last (probably the last now) great...
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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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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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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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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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In about25 minutes from my writing this, the .NET Celebrity Auction for Aceh Aid willstart at 9:00 AM EST.Here is the Ebay...
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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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My friend Aaron already posted I will be liveon .NET Rocks this week, so I will mention it as well.
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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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