Now that WS-Security has become an Oasis recommendation , it is a good time to sit back and talk about exactly what WS-Security gives us. Microsoft's Steven Van Roekel does just that on Integration Developer News. In case you are curious about some...

New security guidance posted on TechNet: Securing Wireless LANs with PEAP and Passwords Securing Wireless LANs with PEAP and Passwords is the second security solution guide for WLANs from Microsoft®. The solution is designed to guide you though...

From article at Daily Wireless: ' RSS and Mobile Devices' Mobile RSS readers: Pocket PC: Pocket RSS Symbian: FeedBurner Smart Phone: SPRSS iPOD: Ipod Agent Palm: HandRSS I'll be trying out the Smartphone version and see how I go.

Java 1.5 introduces class data sharing: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/vm/class-data-sharing.html This looks a lot like .Net's ngen concept, except it only works on core classes(for .net's equivalence, mscorlib.dll). Maybe their next...

Far from work-related, but a good break from it, check out the skateboarding bulldog . Be sure to watch the short video of the bulldog skating in a parking lot. It's amazing, especially if you're a fan of dogs. Now, back to work...

Andrew May , the programmer/writer for PowerPoint programmability at Microsoft, has two truly excellent papers that just went out the door. They answer some questions that I have seen appear countless times in the ng's, so they deserve some extra headlining...

Whoa! It has been a few days since our last post. I think I might be going through blog withdrawal! It was worth it though since it was 80 degrees (yup 80!) in Seattle yesterday. Though I wasn’t actually writing any entries, I was definitely...

Sometimes the differences between platforms can show up in interesting ways. Last week I was looking at a bug that was filed about a difference in error mode between IA64 and x64/x86 platforms… I thought the investigation led me down an interesting...

Another great link http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/office/office2003/maintain/bureswss.mspx There are others, but what I like about this one is the fact that it provides a great table that breaks down the different effects and capabilities...

Choosing a good random number seed is harder than you think....

Aliens don't have to pay income tax, I guess....

Why fill your autoshapes with just a boring single color when you can do so much more? In the picture below, The top rectangle has a traditional single-color fill. This is the default look that new autoshapes get. The middle rectangle...